commons
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The good kind includes security alliances and trade deals to advance U.S. interests, plus efforts to solve tragedies of the commons like overfishing or Ebola.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
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 survey also found 109 nightjar territories, the highest recorded, in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire, including Woolmer Forest and the commons of Shortheath, Bramshott, Ludshott, Broxhead and Kingsley.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
The Free Table began as a kind of informal commons, a collision point of surplus and need.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025
In this way they could justify treating the Indigenous peoples in much the same ways they had been treated when the nobles displaced them from the commons.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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