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  • article | November 20, 2014

    The New Case for LGBT Rights

    M. V. Lee Badgett
    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 ...
  • article | November 20, 2014

    The Cult of Kiddie Danger

    Lenore Skenazy
    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 ...
  • article | November 20, 2014

    Tehran’s Nuclear Playbook

    Sanam Vakil
    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...
  • article | November 20, 2014

    The Most Destructive Gender Binary

    Gary Barker
    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 ...
  • article | November 20, 2014

    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 ...
  • podcast | November 20, 2014

    The Hackers of Oz

    New America
    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...
  • article | November 13, 2014

    Your Primer on the Future of the Internet

    New America
    On Monday, President Obama announced his support for net neutrality- the idea that the Internet should remain free and open, and Internet Service P...
  • article | November 13, 2014

    The Smallest Soldiers

    Douglas Ollivant
    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...
  • article | November 13, 2014

    Kind of a Big (Climate Change) Deal

    Eric Holthaus
    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...
  • article | November 13, 2014

    Where the Wall Has Taken Us

    New America
    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...
  • article | November 13, 2014

    Which Events Really Mattered in World History?

    Levi Tillemann
    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...
  • article | November 06, 2014

    The New New Germany

    Yascha Mounk
    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...