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In 2014, the pollster Ipsos MORI published a survey on attitudes to immigration, and it showed that as numbers of immigrants increase, so public concern with immigration also increases, although it obviously didn't unpack causality, because this could equally be to do not so much with numbers but the political and media narrative around it.

As we were researching the story, unconnected to us, a major political bribery scandal happened in Brazil.

The problem is, that all of this propaganda, monitoring and censorship completely fails to make up for the fact that the people who are the most credible voices, who can present credible ideas and alternative solutions to real economic, social and political problems in their community that are causing people to turn to extremism in the first place, are being silenced by their own governments.

We've also got to be more mindful about how our own personal, political, consumer and business choices affect people like these around the world.

And that's not surprising, given the bad news all around us, from ISIS to inequality, political dysfunction, climate change, Brexit, and on and on.

So a few years ago I decided, well, I'm a journalist, I should see if I can do any better by going around the world and actually asking folks if and how they've tackled their big economic and political challenges.

It shattered the political paralysis that had gripped it for years.

But that doesn't mean we voters can't demand courage from our political leaders.

In a study of 323 major political conflicts from 1900 to 2006, Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns were almost 100 percent more likely to lead to success than violent campaigns.

Political scientist Victor Asal and colleagues have looked at several factors that shape a political group's choice of tactics.

The research squared up with my own documentation of political organizing in Israel and Palestine.

The 25 of us who live there are all different ages and political persuasions and professions, and we live in homes that have everything a typical home would have.

For many people across the political spectrum, Exhibit A is the 2016 presidential election.

During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting.

And while it's nice to share political memes on social media, that's a rather quiet kind of citizenship.

Imagine if we had, across the country right now, in local places but nationwide, a concerted effort to revive a face-to-face set of ways to engage and electioneer: outdoor shows in which candidates and their causes are mocked and praised in broad satirical style; soapbox speeches by citizens; public debates held inside pubs; streets filled with political art and handmade posters and murals; battle of the band concerts in which competing performers rep their candidates.

In Akron, it means political plays being performed in the bed of a flatbed truck that moves from neighborhood to neighborhood.

All across this country right now, immigrants, young people, veterans, people of all different backgrounds are coming together to create this kind of passionate, joyful activity around elections, in red and blue states, in urban and rural communities, people of every political background.

Imagine if all of the followers of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders had decided not to upend the political status quo and blow apart the frame of the previously possible in American politics.

So let's just take one political issue that's pretty hot, affirmative action.

You see it as something that's actively conspiring, where people with political and financial power are working against you.

Then the environment changed some 10,000 years ago, we began to settle down on the farm and both men and women became obliged, really, to marry the right person, from the right background, from the right religion and from the right kin and social and political connections.

Now, that might sound pretty good, but ask yourself what would happen under our current economic and political order?

When you're talking about superintelligent AI that can make changes to itself, it seems that we only have one chance to get the initial conditions right, and even then we will need to absorb the economic and political consequences of getting them right.

In 2015, Lan Diep, the eldest son of political refugees from Vietnam, ran for a seat in the San Jose City Council.

We have come for political and religious freedom.

Lisa O'Connell, a dramaturge and director of a playwright center, pulled us aside after the show and said, "Do you have any idea how political that was?" (Laughter) So that began an eight-year collaboration to create a play which not only further developed our system for switching but also explored the impact of being locked into a single role, and what's worse, being defined by that single role.

They can infer your sexual orientation, your personality traits, your political leanings.

So I understood the vital importance of self-knowledge, political awareness and the necessity for a deep and wide understanding of our commitments and our actions, how they affect others.

Throughout my career, I have learned that fat bodies are inherently political, and unapologetic fat bodies can blow people's minds.

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