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Four Things You Need to Know About Privacy of 911 Callers
Last week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously to pass rules that will require mobile phone carriers to provide emergency ...
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Armed Conflict and Compliance in Muslim States, 1947–2014: Does Conflict Look Different under International Humanitarian Law?
Regions with large Muslim populations in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa are no strangers to conflict and warfare, including protracted strife. Y...
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FCC Proposal Promises a Free and Open Internet for Consumers
Statement
Washington, DC -- Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Wheeler outlined the details of his proposal to protect net neutrality. In a bl...
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OTI Encouraged by Reported FCC Move Toward Reclassification
Washington, DC -- Reports today appear to confirm rumors that the FCC will move to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service under Title...
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A Path Appears Podcast
A Social Cinema Screening in collaboration with the Profits & Purpose Program
"Hope is like a path in the countryside," wrote Chinese essayist Lu Xun. "Originally there is nothing. But as people walk this way again and again,...
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Bigger Isn't Always Better
Why We May Need a Data Detox
Acording to a 2014 report from the White House, “Big data will become an historic driver of progress, helping our nation perpetuate the civic and e...
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Rethinking Hostage Policies In An Era Of Violent Extremism
The U.S., Japan and other nations strongly condemned the apparent beheading of a Japanese journalist by the extremist group known as the Islamic St...
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What Can We Learn from Obama’s Failure to Curb Sec. 529 College Savings Accounts?
As Justin King has noted, some states including Maine, Rhode Island and Nevada are trying to encourage college attendance by setting up accounts fo...
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The big dangers of big data
The central claim of data proponents is that data always has some positive value. This premise is false. Data-gathering that seems innocuous enough...
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Why Are American Schools Obsessed With Turning Kids Into Robots?
High-stakes testing has failed as a stand-alone measure of performance for students, teachers, schools, and districts, according to Kamenetz, but t...
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Is U.S. coalition winning war vs. ISIS?
Winning Mosul back from ISIS will be much more likely if the there are American air controllers calling in close air support strikes against ISIS p...
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As Regulators Focus on Culture, Wall Street Struggles to Define It
“The industry is sort of having a culture moment,” said Susan Ochs, founder of the Better Banking Project at the nonpartisan think tank New America...
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Christie begins London trade mission, trip includes meeting with prime minister
"I think he's well beyond the point where most voters know exactly what he's up to," said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian and professor of...
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ISIS videos often signal hostages’ fate may be sealed
"We know there have been other hostages who have paid ransom and have been evacuated from the country, but it seems like once you come to this leve...
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Christie's London trip about 2016 presidential politics, experts say
"I'm sure there's some justification, some connection to the needs of New Jersey, but I think at this point, post setting up the PAC, everything ha...
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Romney not running in 2016, a decision that could help Christie
"Both men are competing for to be the Republican-in-a-blue-state candidate who can appeal to a broad coalition and who is most concerned with fisca...
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Suspected U.S. drone strike kills al Qaeda militants in Yemen
Nineteen U.S. drone strikes killed 124 militants and four civilians in Yemen in 2014, according to the New America Foundation, which maintains a da...
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Tax Credit Bonanza
Higher Ed Happy Hour
On the second Higher Ed Happy Hour, Kevin, Libby, and Andrew sample some Irish whisky, dive into the merits of President Obama's higher education t...
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Asset Building News Week, January 26 – January 29
College Savings Plans In a Slate piece this week, the Asset Building Program’s own Justin King challenged recent media coverage of President Obama’...