commons

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Leo writes that modern technology has wonderful benefits like the establishment and ease of worldwide interconnections, the formation of global community and solidarity via the digital commons.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

The sum of all this is a tragedy of the education commons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

The Free Table began as a kind of informal commons, a collision point of surplus and need.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025

I’d like the city to think big on behalf of the greater good — the commons, as it used to be called — instead of the individual.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

They broke for lunch in the dining commons, which was more like a nice restaurant than a typical office cafeteria, but they were all too nervous to enjoy the meal.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti