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How to Combat ISIS, Starting in Your Community
When you hear ‘online predator,’ you probably conjure an image of a sexual predator – perhaps a middle-aged man targeting oblivious kids through va...
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Being Present Instead of Perfect
For a lot of American families today, the dinner table can feel a minefield, haunted by the ghosts of _Leave It To Beavers _past and the present-da...
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The New Case for LGBT Rights
What’s the secret to convincing the world to back a movement? Figure out how it could impact the global bottom line. Economic reasoning is part of ...
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The Cult of Kiddie Danger
The Richland, WA, school district is phasing out swings on its playgrounds. As the district's spokesman recently told KEPR TV: "It's just really a ...
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Tehran’s Nuclear Playbook
We’re down to the wire. The November 24 deadline for the Iranian nuclear deal is looming. In this final week, negotiators from the P5 +1 and Iran a...
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The Most Destructive Gender Binary
It was the latest setback for women’s empowerment. But you probably haven’t heard about it. Part of the gender equality goal set to replace one of ...
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The Future of Thanksgiving
Why is Thanksgiving dinner always late, and why does it last so long? It’s one of the last refuges of irreducible inefficiency, a throwback to the ...
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The Hackers of Oz
How do we win a war that can’t be seen? Anne-Marie Slaughter goes behind the cyber curtain to find out by speaking with ASU Future of War Fellow Sh...
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Social Innovation: A Bi-Partisan Bright Spot
*Making government payments contingent on measurable results is part of a larger push for “evidenced based” policy-making. Outside of government, s...
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Why Iraq Must Stop Playing the Shari’a Card
If you’re a woman living in Raqqa, Iraq, you already had enough to worry about: your government recently lost a quarter of the country to the Islam...
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Are We About to Trade Away Critical Healthcare Access?
In the expensive briar patch that is American healthcare, generic drugs have been key to keeping costs down. But intellectual property provisions i...
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Your Primer on the Future of the Internet
On Monday, President Obama announced his support for net neutrality- the idea that the Internet should remain free and open, and Internet Service P...
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The Smallest Soldiers
Douglas Ollivant, ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America, explains that as we observe Veterans Day, we should also remember that the childr...
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Kind of a Big (Climate Change) Deal
The United States and China—the world’s biggest contributors to climate change—just produced a game changer. Leaders of the two countries jointly a...
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Where the Wall Has Taken Us
When the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, some say our world order cracked wide open. This month’s twenty-fifth anniversary of that miles...
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Which Events Really Mattered in World History?
A casual reading of human history (or a high school textbook) might suggest the crucifixion of Jesus, Matthew Perry’s opening of Japan, and D-day a...
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Why Now, More Than Ever, We Must Change Our Immigration Story
She was 14. She believed them when they told her that her future – her own family, a home, economic salvation – was just a few feet away. That lie ...
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The Untapped Potential in Science Fiction
If we can end the elitism and teach more science fiction to teenagers and young adults, we can change the world. This assertion, while bold, may no...
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The New New Germany
We didn’t know what to expect after the heady days of November 1989. What exactly would follow from the fall of the Berlin wall? Would this mean th...