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The Power of Libya's Female Arms Dealers
I am an arms dealer in Libya, but my weapons reduce violence and last longer than a bullet. As the founder of the Voice of Libyan Women (VLW), a wo...
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Dr. Tomicah Tillemann Joins New America as Senior Fellow to Direct Bretton Woods II Initiative
Washington, DC — New America announced that Dr. Tomicah Tillemann joined the organization as a Senior Fellow with the Profits and Purpose Program a...
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Rabia Chaudry fights for Muslims — and Adnan
Chaudry embraces her role as a firebrand who, as she recently tweeted, is "shattering stereotypes" of veiled Muslim women. Buzzfeed named her this ...
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Cyber Expert Peter Singer: Sony's Embarrassment Has Set a 'Horrible' Precedent
"The ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-greatly defended computer network is not the same as being able to carry out physical 9/11-style...
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UN investigates Palestinian minister's death
The UN Security Council is investigating the death of Ziad Abu Ein, a Palestinian minister who died this month while leading a group of Palestinian...
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Pakistani Taliban threatens further violence following Peshawar school killings
The popular groundswell to suppress the Taliban may not endure, said Anatol Lieven, the author of "Pakistan: A Hard Country", in a phone interview ...
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I Started Serial, But It Didn’t End the Way I Had Hoped
A year ago I was not hoping Sarah Koenig would create a show based on the case that would become a worldwide sensation; I was hoping she would unco...
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The Morning Download: Sony Attack Is Cybersecurity’s ‘Snowden’ Moment
The digital assault on Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (much more on that below) has changed the public’s perception of cybersecurity, much as the...
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The Sony Hack Is Not an Excuse to Pass Bad Cybersecurity Laws
As cybersecurity expert Peter Singer noted in our interview yesterday, "the ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-great protected computer ...
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Sony pulls movie, amid reports linking North Korea to hack
The film’s cancellation “changes this from a joke, to them incentivizing attacks on other people,” said Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the New Am...
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"My Default is Polemic": Bringing Sass to Education Writing
Conor Williams isn’t shy about sharing his stories or his opinions. He’s shared with the whole Internet, for example, that he was mugged during his...
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How did swaps regulation get into the CRomnibus? Ask this army of lobbyists
The banks made it easy for Congress, and then made a convincing case for it - over, and over, and over again. And the other side just didn't have t...
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Jeb Bush candidacy move fires up White House race
“It is the kind of announcement that will shake the Republican field because now there is someone that others can see easily becoming the nominee a...
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Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'
There's two layers to it now. There's the definition of terrorism and the reaction to it, which has been a combination of being both insipid and en...
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SA New Surveillance Blimp Takes to the Skies Over Maryland
The Army has been exploring the use of airships in warzones for a number of years. But the Baltimore blimps’ 24/7 radar mean that they’re technical...
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The Case for Payroll Withholding
Preventing Student Loan Defaults with Automatic Income-Based Repayment
A new paper, The Case for Payroll Withholding, co-authored by New America, Young Invincibles, and the National Association of Student Financial Aid...
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Pakistan's 9/11
Today the Pakistani military understands that the Frankenstein that it helped to create must now be killed.
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ARABIC: Clinton: Choices or Elections
This article is in Arabic.
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Jeb Bush announcement 'a big deal' to Chris Christie 2016 presidential candidacy, observers say
“It’s a big deal,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of political history at Princeton University. “This is the one person who probably worries (Chr...
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Christie left to defuse Jeb Bush bombshell
Christie “is no longer alone on an island surrounded by Tea Party activists,” said Julian Zelizer, a political history professor at Princeton Unive...
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Bring Back Corrpution!
In Corruption in America, Teachout recounts many of these struggles, making her book in part a greatest hits of court cases and laws dealing with b...