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New White House Hostage Rescue Strategy MIA
The administration has consistently maintained that the Bergdahl swap was not a deal worked out with terrorists and doesn’t affect its policy again...
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Life in the Digital Age
In this half-hour CUNY TV special, we explore the ramifications of the digital world. When almost all of our correspondence, communication and pers...
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The World-Wide Muzzle and What to Do About It
Our current project, Ranking Digital Rights, plans to hold companies accountable. While organizations such as Freedom House and the World Wide Web ...
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AWS-3 Auction Closes With Record $44.9B in Bids; Wheeler Still Eyeing Early 2016 Incentive Auction
“We disagree that the AWS-3 auction outcome is a trend to celebrate,” he said. “The US Government sucking $45 billion in capital out of the wireles...
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2012 GOP Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney Will Not Run For President In 2016
"Certainly good news for Chris Christie,” Princeton University Public Affairs Professor Julian Zelizer told WCBS 880’s Jim Smith. “They’re competin...
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How to expand middle-class college savings
Pioneering work by Ray Boshara of the St. Louis Federal Reserve and the New America Foundation has led to numerous innovations by states and nonpro...
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Obama, GOP leaders should take page from LBJ playbook
Starting with Johnson’s first State of the Union address, Jan. 8, 1964, the immediate struggle was over taxes and spending, I learned from a spirit...
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Please don't let 'Selma' become a political football
Let's hope that those who seek to turn this debate about "Selma" into accusation and slander, such as dismissing all criticism about the treatment ...
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No, strong net neutrality rules will not lead to a UN takeover of the Internet
In the end, it's clear that the net net neutrality debate has both a domestic and an international political dimension — but it's important that we...
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Improving the Tax Preparation Experience
Tax time is often referred to as the “golden moment” for asset building and financial management due to the substantial infusion of resources many ...
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Asset Building Program Calls for “Schumer Box”, Increased Regulation of Paid Tax Preparers
WASHINGTON, DC – The Asset Building Program at New America released a report today, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day, that calls for a...
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FCC Raises the Bar for Broadband, Adopts E911 Order
OTI Statement on FCC’s January Open Meeting
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took important steps to improve the consumer broadband market in the United States. At its month...
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Baby's First Discrimination
As a mother of a young child today, I know much has changed for mothers in the workforce since my mother and her mother had children. But there’s o...
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Are GOP Women Pro-Voice?
The abortion debate has largely fallen off the front page these days, but even though the abortion rate in the United States is at a 40-year low, o...
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Do You Want Your Child To Be a Unicorn or a Robot?
Anya Kamenetz is very clear when she says she didn’t set out to write about standardized testing. A 2014 New America Fellow and lead education blog...
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How Community Networks Could Show Us the Infrastructure of the Future
A decade ago, Philadelphia’s outdated sewer system—like much of the nation’s infrastructure—was crumbling, causing a nasty brew of storm-water, raw...
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Don’t Dismiss Poverty’s Role in Terrorism Quite Yet
With the deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris earlier this month, pundits are again questioning a commonly-cited motive for radicaliza...
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The Conversation About 529s Is Just Starting
Within the space of a week, President Obama delivered a message in the State of the Union that wealth should be taxed to ease the burden on the mid...
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Our (North American) Passport to a New America
Borders are perhaps the biggest and most contentious issue when it comes to trade, immigration, diplomacy, and innovation. Twenty years after NAFTA...
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Next Generation of Chinese Space Vehicles Begins Its Long March (By Standing Up)
On the tropical island Hainan, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center got its very first heavy rocket. The Long March 7 (LM-7), built by the China Aerosp...
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Dallas Case May Weaken Americans’ Ability to Fight Discrimination
“In my mind, [these practices are not] the type of rampant racism in housing markets during the time when redlining was part of the assessment of p...
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Yemen’s Silver Lining
The uncertainty in Yemen should convince Washington to reevaluate its al-Qaeda strategy. But with the Huthis sure to spar with AQAP, America might ...