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 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 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

During the Crusades era, European nobles took over the commons so they could own it.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz