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The Wall That Didn’t Fall
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a different wall has taken its place. But instead of separating East and West, this other “wal...
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It's Not Obama, It's Just the Sixth Year
If you want to know who to blame for any number of global and domestic crises, there is one simple answer, according to many critics: Barack Obama....
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Hacking Diversity in Tech and Beyond
The tech industry now admits it has a woman problem. On this week’s episode, fresh ideas for how to address that issue across the tech sector – and...
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More on the Cost of Connectivity
Last week, New America's Open Technology Institute released the 2014 edition of the Cost of Connectivity, an annual survey of broadband speeds and ...
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Did We Give the Pill Too Much Power?
This pill came with a promise: help extinguish sexism from public life by removing a key roadblock for women. If women could plan when and whether ...
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Journalism’s New Deep End
How should we fill the information gap on Ebola and the Syrian Civil War, which the mainstream media addresses only when there's a new patient or a...
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Our Big Government Misconception
Idealistic television shows like The West Wing portray government as a place for grand ideas and big think. But the reality is that working in gove...
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The Chorus that Cracked the Wall
In the years after the song appeared as the title track on Springsteen’s 1984 album, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” has been overanalyzed an...
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Invisible Divide
In 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall tore open the Iron Curtain, less visible fault lines remain between East and West in G...
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5 Ways America is Failing Millennials
If you're between 18 and 34 years old, you _should _be getting ready for the prime of your life — at least according to recent history. That means ...
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Should Art Imitate Policy?
Is the duty of the documentary to “change the world” or rather to “show the world”? Increasingly, activists and consumers conflate documentary with...
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Can We Save Good Local Journalism?
It’s possible, says Perry Bacon, Jr., who believes that only local journalism can sustain democracy where it is most active these days—at the state...
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The Middle East Post-Nuclear Deal
It is the year 2015. Since a final agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached some months ago, there have been a few minor missteps on Tehran'...
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A Bull in Isis' China Shop
Poor Barack Obama. With his many problems sending his approval ratings to record lows, the one thing it seemed he could take solace in was that he’...
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Seeing America Through Japanese Eyes
“Scarlett, Scarlett!” I waved pleadingly. Across the red carpet she sauntered, her eyes invitingly meeting mine. There I stood—a 24-year-old Jewish...
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For A More Resilient World, We Need to Think Small
When disaster strikes, we tend to think big. What will the city do to help the affected population? The federal government? But in fact, many of th...
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Preventing a Homegrown Attack
The day after the attack on the Canadian parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised that he would support new legislation that gave the Can...
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The Big Millennial Disconnect
New America On Today’s Most-Discussed Generation and Its Challenges
In a series of six in-depth articles published today in Vox, thinkers across New America’s policy programs analyze how the stakes are different for...
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A Creative Ebola "Vaccine"
Nneka Eze, Lagos Office Director for Dalberg Global Development, explains how health officials in Nigeria used “kanju creativity” – former New Amer...
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Are Cities the New States?
You’re a health official trying to contain a new case of Ebola in a major world city. Who’s your first call – the country’s top health official? Or...
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Defining Cyber Warfare
Imagine that China launches a cyber attack on the United States tomorrow. It devastates systems, crippling the financial sector or causing loss of ...