Annals of Behavior

Politics & Power

Obstruction Is Ancient: What Roman Senators Knew About Killing a Bill Without Voting

The filibuster feels like a peculiarly modern American dysfunction, but Roman senators were weaponizing procedural delay two thousand years before C-SPAN existed. The mechanics have changed. The psychology never has.

Mar 12, 2026

Technology & Digital Culture

From Frontpage to Footnote: The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Digg

Digg once stood as the undisputed king of social news aggregation, shaping how millions of Americans discovered content on the early internet. Its collapse — and the improbable rise of Reddit in its wake — remains one of the most instructive cautionary tales in the history of digital media. What went wrong, and can Digg's repeated attempts at reinvention ever recapture what was lost?

Mar 12, 2026