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Why We Need a New York Times In Every State
We are in the midst of a journalism revival. Startups like Business Insider, Vox, Vice and FiveThirtyEight are reimagining not just newsgathering, ...
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What is in Resistance?
The people, the army, the Resistance. Lebanon’s longstanding formula, where “resistance” is a euphemism for the Shiite political party and militia ...
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The Parent Trap
The Daddy Bonus. The Mommy Penalty. We’ve seen a lot of news recently about how the pay gap between men and women is sometimes tied to parenthood. ...
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The Weekly Wonk: History Is Happening Now
In this episode, Slaughter talks with historian Khalil Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Pub...
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The Money Midterms
At least since the first “billion-dollar election,” in 1996, money in politics has seemed like one of those perpetual problems that we wring our ha...
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The Future of Global Internet Policy
A Playbook
If you care about the future of the Internet, you should be paying attention to what’s happening in Busan, South Korea, right now. You may not have...
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How Knight Foundation empowers innovators
Knight funding helped enable Ranking Digital Rights to launch its pilot study and create my job, but Knight’s people have helped me move from obser...
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The Raw Honesty of Klinghoffer
Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, agreed that winning over young voters is an issue for Democrats.
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In West, ISIS Finds Women Eager to Enlist
In an article in Foreign Policy, Aki Peritz and Tara Maller wrote that male jihadists were “committing horrific sexual violence on a seemingly indu...
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Redefine DeKalb
One of the most notable aspects of the recent Secret Service scandal revolves around money and the state of Congress.
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What Ben Bradlee stood for
The death of famed Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee on Tuesday marks the symbolic end of an important era in American journalism, one that, unfor...
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ISIS reveals its strategy
ISIS is looking to take over a good chunk of the Middle East -- if not the entire Muslim world. At least, that's the message the terrorist movement...
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In Depth with Francis Rose: Sharon Burke
Ice at the North Pole is melting at record rates. Sea lanes are opening where they were never open before, and security implications are opening al...
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Chaos for Dual Language Learners and The Learning for English Academic Proficiency and Success Act
Such models are mandated by the ESEA, so all states comply in one way or another—but the lack of interstate consensus on exactly how to comply has ...
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The Pill Podcast: Oral Contraception and the Future of Reproductive Rights
A Broadly Speaking Event in collaboration with the Global Gender Parity Initiative
Nearly fifty years after Margaret Sanger’s death, the safe and effective birth control pill she fought for has transformed the lives of women world...
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New America’s Open Technology Institute Releases Version 1.1 of the Commotion Networking Toolkit
Washington, DC — New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) announced today that it has publicly released the latest version of its groundbreaki...
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"Digital Rights Groups Ask ITU To Stay Out of Net Neutrality Debate"
If the ITU moves to allow telecom-style termination fees for Web traffic, the United Nations agency could damage Internet openness and threaten net...
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New Interactive Map Visualizes Swing States in the Global Internet Governance Debate
OTI Releases New Resource Ahead of 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
As the 2014 International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference begins today in Busan, South Korea, New America’s Open Technol...
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6 things you need to read on the meat industry
In preparation for our event that will be broadcast on CSPAN on how America’s meat industry is returning to the Jungle on Monday, October 20th, her...