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Julian Zelizer On Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society'
Julian E. Zelizer's new book "The Fierce Urgency Of Now" explores the presidential achievements of Lyndon Baines Johnson. From civil rights to immi...
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Gerard Russell on the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
“It’s just useful when we see today the narrative of conflict to remember that it was actually possible for faiths to coexist quite remarkably,” sa...
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Too Hot to Connect
Are our Internet providers putting sufficient effort into network resiliency in the face of climate change? Comcast could not comment and Verizon d...
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Words From the Past Illuminate a Station on the Way to Freedom
“This book is a capstone,” said Matthew Pinsker, a historian at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., who will be teaching it to K-12 educators at a ...
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With The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore Has His Own Brand of Politics to Prosecute
The Nightly Show’s conceit is fairly simple: It’s a news show from the perspective of the underrepresented. Besides Wilmore’s monologues, there wi...
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
Gerard Russell shows in his new book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms that this tradition can in fact be driven back much further to early roots in Baby...
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The Fate of Foreign Fighters Returning from Syria and Iraq
Foreign fighters are travelling to Syria and Iraq on an ‘unprecedented scale’ according to a recent United Nations report, which finds that 15,000 ...
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Big Cable, Obama spar over government-run broadband networks
“The President is right: we need to invest in high-speed broadband networks to help ensure that all Americans have affordable, quality Internet opt...
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The Future of Terrorism According to VICE
Whether it is the advancement of and availability of cheap drones to the ease of carrying out a cyberattack, future terrorists will find it easier ...
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Barack Obama places cyber security high on his agenda
Peter Singer from the New America Foundation agrees with the White House that it wasn't a serious breach, but he says it was a minor propaganda vic...
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The FCC Delivers of Phase II of E-rate Modernization
New Order Brings More Money and Better Rules Supporting Fiber Investment
Schools and libraries are going to get a big boost in their Internet connectivity over the next few years. The Federal Communications Commission (F...
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OTI Statement on President’s Legislative Proposal for Cyber Information Sharing
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Today, the White House made public a package of legislative proposals aimed at improving cybersecurity. The package included a proposal that would ...
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“That’s just not true”: What “Selma” and the establishment get wrong about LBJ
Salon recently spoke with Zelizer over the phone. We touched on what people misunderstand about Johnson, the politics of the 1960s, and the reason ...
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Leisure Is the New Productivity
“Big Ideas for a New America” at CNN.com
From Leonardo da Vinci to Bertrand Russell, great artists and thinkers have made a practice of what we instinctively know: our greatest ideas often...
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Does Islam fuel terrorism?
Salafism is an ultrafundmentalist branch of Islam that is particularly prevalent in Saudi Arabia. Salafism is intolerant of what its adherents cons...
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It Doesn’t Really Matter if ISIS Sympathizers Hacked Central Command’s Twitter
Another indicator was the account cover image being changed to the text “i love you isis.” ISIS is group that tends not to call itself by that acro...
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The Fallout From the NSA's Backdoors Mandate
It's difficult to establish an exact dollar amount, but "experts have estimated that losses to the U.S. cloud industry alone could reach (US)$180 b...
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White House promises new cyber proposal addresses privacy
“The administration’s proposal fails to effectively cement DHS’s control over the information sharing program,” said Robyn Greene, policy counsel o...
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Broadband Competition Should Be Encouraged, Not Restricted
The Open Technology Institute found that consumers have better options and faster speeds in communities where three or more providers compete.
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Search intensifies for female accomplice in Paris attacks
Tara Maller shares her insights