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New federal guidelines highlight civil rights of English language learners
“Public schools do not move quickly when it comes to how they serve anyone, let alone how they serve special populations,” said Conor Williams. “Th...
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A Secret History of Sexism
It’s 2015 and in the entire history of the U.S. Senate, only 44 women have ever served as senators. Especially with numbers like that, we have to w...
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FCC launches new online consumer help center to improve input, communication
"We are pleased that the FCC will continue to expand the consumer complaint data that it releases in the coming months, and hope that this is the f...
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The Man or the Moment
Has a misreading of history informed a misappraisal of Barack Obama? "He doesn't want to undermine that by getting too close or taking too many gif...
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North Korea’s growing hacker army, stout cyberdefenses hinder U.S response to Sony breach
North Korea is “just not as vulnerable in cyber as we are, so cyberactions we might take to press the buttons of another nation won’t have the same...
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The Secret History of Women in the Senate
In the entire history of the United States Senate, a mere 44 women have served. Ever. Those few who have were elected to a club they were never mea...
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Will Christie the Cowboys fan draw an ethical penalty flag?
"He doesn't want to undermine that by getting too close or taking too many gifts from the sorts of people who are angering a lot of voters right no...
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3D printing will change how wars are fought, foriegn policy conducted, experts say.
Being able to take printers to a war zone promises radical shake-up of combat and the defence industry says Peter W. Singer.
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STATEMENT: FCC Launches New Consumer Help Center to Improve Data Collection and Transparency
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched its new Consumer Help Center, which is designed to improve the process...
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Why U.S. needs to stay in Afghanistan
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces, presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a...
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The Pentagoner: The Long, Slow Death of Capabilities-based Planning
Enter capabilities based planning. It was not necessarily the wrong approach, but it allowed much room for artificial selection; we wanted to build...
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Christie Keeps High Profile Outside N.J.
Now, Mr. Christie could look to leverage those RGA relationships to bolster a run for president, said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and publ...
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Google Lobbies for Cheaper Airwaves
“They’ve been kind of deep in this way of thinking for a long time,” said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at the New Ame...
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FCC releases new consumer complaint website
“Protecting consumers is one of the FCC’s foremost responsibilities, and we applaud the FCC for taking steps to update and streamline the consumer ...
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OTI & WiFu File Replies To Hotel Industry Wi-Fi Blocking Petition
The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation joined Public Knowledge in submitting reply opposition comments to the Federal Communic...
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New America Partners with Defense One for “Future of War” Project
Defense One to host group’s initiative exploring the changing nature of war and conflict
Washington, DC — New America announced today that it is partnering with Defense One, Atlantic Media’s premiere digital national security and defens...
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Step back to go forward on global growth
As 2015 dawns the prospect looms of another year of disappointing global growth. Broken growth models litter the economic landscape. Divergent cent...
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Cyberwarfare: The new front
As Shane Harris says in his timely new work of contemporary history, "@War," growing inexorably in recent years. The United States and its adversar...
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Thank Congress Not LBJ for Great Society
Princeton historian Julian E. Zelizer takes a fresh look at how a confluence of factors—including the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movem...
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Sony hack could be game changer
“It is unlikely that information sharing would have prevented the Sony hack,” said Greene, who supports increased cyber information sharing, but no...
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The real story behind 'Selma'
But the movie is correct in asserting that Johnson disagreed with civil rights leaders on the timing; he was not ready to actually propose a bill t...