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Your boss lost an election, you lost a job — but Tom Manatos is here to save the day.
According to Lee Drutman of the New America Foundation, there’s no real evidence that shows a difference between Democratic and Republican revolvin...
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Why the South lags behind when it comes to home broadband use
"Cost is a huge factor in terms of broadband adoption, and in the U.S. we tend to pay more for broadband at entry level speed tiers as well as the ...
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An In-Depth Look At The U.S. Cyber War, The Military Alliance And Its Pitfalls
In the book @War, Shane Harris reports that U.S. intelligence agencies, sometimes aided by corporations, are trying to dominate cyberspace. It's "c...
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Cyber bill’s fate hinges on NSA reform
“The Senate absolutely must pass USA Freedom before it can even consider taking up cyber info sharing legislation,” said Robyn Greene, policy couns...
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Billionaires Grow in Numbers, Influence
Writer Michael Lind believes that American billionaires are not as powerful as one might think. Mr. Lind is a fellow at the New America Foundation....
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Inside the Middle East’s vanishing ancient religions
Gerard Russell, a British-American ex-diplomat who lived in Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Kabul, is interested in the religions that have survived even w...
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"Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying"
U.S. companies are in danger of losing more business to foreign competitors if the NSA’s power to spy on customers isn’t curbed, according to a Jul...
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A Plumbing Problem for the Internet (and the Stock Market)
Cogent’s story became part of the net neutrality debate last winter, when a big plumbing problem afflicted the Internet. Thousands of Netflix custo...
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Soldiers, Spies, Cyberwarriors: '@War' In The Internet Age
"It was a really instructive and, I think, very scary war gaming exercise for people in the military," writer Shane Harris tells NPR's Arun Rath. "...
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Interview: Counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen
David Kilcullen: It's different in three major ways. Firstly, it is much bigger and more militarily capable than al-Qaida ever was. It has tanks, i...
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The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #100: Shane Harris @War
Shane Harris, national security writer for the Daily Beast, was the first ever guest on the Lawfare Podcast, back when it was the most experimental...
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A New Israeli Media Podcast
The impact of new digital magazines
Journalism in Israel has a long legacy, with veteran media outlets covering every aspect of Israeli political and cultural life—everything from mus...
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The #CryptoDebate is Coming: Are You Prepared?
When Apple and Google announced their plans to enable encryption by default on new iPhones and Android smartphones, they ignited a ferocious debate...
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Asset Building News Week, November 10 - November 14
Postal Banking The U.S. Postal Service’s Inspector General issued a request for proposals this week to solicit strategies from stakeholders on expa...
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China's New Exoskeletons: Not just for Call of Duty or Tom Cruise Anymore
Powered exoskeletons have long been a staple of future warfare visions, seen in everything from movies like Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow to the late...
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China Shows Off Its Growing Drone Fleet
While much of the buzz at the Zhuhai Air Show has been about new manned stealth Jets in China’s arsenal, it has also shed light on how China's unma...
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As Chinese Adoptees Return Home, a New Genre Tells Their Tales
“Ricki’s Promise,” a documentary about a Seattle teen’s summer spent with her birth family in China, began showing on the U.S. film festival circui...
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LTE Means Wireless Faces No Technical Hurdles From Tough Net Neutrality Rules, NAF Says
*There’s no engineering reason why the same net neutrality rules imposed on fixed networks can’t be imposed on mobile, said New America’s Open Tech...
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Invest in Smarter Government
Here’s what I would do with my wave of the magic wand. I would triple the amount the Congress spends on staff (keeping it still at just under 0.1% ...