Information is crucial to informed decision-making, but it is also possible to sift through copious volumes of unfiltered information to find evidence that appears to affirm prejudices. In his new book, Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge, Professor Cass Sunstein presents an optimistic account of the human potential to aggregate...

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President Barack Obama has made outreach to the Islamic Republic of Iran a foreign policy centerpiece of his administration.

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