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Why the Fed is Flummoxed by the U.S. Labor Market
In the latest statement from the Federal Open Market Committee, Fed Chair Janet Yellen seemed to set aside some of her earlier concern about slack ...
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Terrorist attack on Australian soil 'a certainty'
David Kilcullen, who has advised Army Generals in Iraq, and was the Chief Counter Terrorism strategist at the US State Department, is convinced too...
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Obama's Fragile Education Legacy
But if Obama’s education agenda is a bigger legacy piece than people realize, it’s also exceedingly fragile. States who developed new teacher evalu...
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China's New Military Robots Pack More Robots Inside, Starcraft-Style
China puts autonomous and armed robots up for sale at the 2014 Zhuhai Air Show. In one package, you get three robots!
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Shared Environmental Concerns between India and Pakistan
This paper is a unique opportunity to examine the environmental challenges of India and Pakistan, the two neighboring nations perhaps most importan...
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Can mesh networks and offline wireless move from protest tools to news?
“The thing about mesh is that you don’t have to plan it out in advance,” says Georgia Bullen, a data analyst with the Open Technology Institute, wh...
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President Obama Endorses Strong Approach to Net Neutrality
President calls for Title II reclassification and bright-line rules that ban paid prioritization and protect mobile broadband users
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama endorsed a robust and straightforward approach to net neutrality rules on Monday, urging the FCC to reclassify bro...
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Doctrine Man speaks: Tom, you magnificent bastard, I read your post!
*The Human Dimension White Paper describes what is arguably the most significant institutional challenge we will face in the next generation -- opt...
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The Supreme Court's legacy could 'blow a big hole' in Obama's legacy this year
"Health Care is the most important part of the president's legacy, and the most unstable part of his legacy," said Julian E. Zelizer, a professor o...
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Avoiding Unnecessary Wars and Preserving Accountability: Principles for an ISIL-Specific AUMF
Earlier today, a group of legal experts–including Rosa Brooks, Sarah Cleveland, Jen Daskal, Walter Dellinger, Harold Koh, and Marty Lederman–releas...
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‘Cybersecurity’ and Why Definitions Are Risky
On November 7, the Swiss Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held a conference in Vienna on confidence-...
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Final Dispatch from Busan: Closing the Books on the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
This post is the last in a series from the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, South Korea. Rea...
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Root for oil prices to go back up?
American drivers across the country are rejoicing at falling gasoline prices, but the world's oil producers are understandably less thrilled at the...
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Asset Building News Week, November 3 - November 7
Minimum Wage On Election Day, five states voted to raise the minimum wage. Josh Barro reported in the New York Times’ Upshot Blog, “Alaska [will] s...
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More than 70 Groups Sign On to Oppose the FCC’s Rumored “Sender Side” Approach to Network Neutrality
WASHINGTON, DC – New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) joined more than 70 organizations this morning in opposition to the “sender side” ap...
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“Dark Money” Didn’t Decide the Election
But Money Matters More Than Ever
After Republicans won the most expensive midterm election in history, it was tempting to ascribe the result to money, or more specifically “dark mo...
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The New New Germany
We didn’t know what to expect after the heady days of November 1989. What exactly would follow from the fall of the Berlin wall? Would this mean th...
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The Wall That Didn’t Fall
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a different wall has taken its place. But instead of separating East and West, this other “wal...