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White House cyber czar: To stay secure, kill the password – but keep data within reach of police
*White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel spoke with The Christian Science Monitor's Passcode about training the next generation of cyb...
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Regulatory Environments for Youth Savings in the Developing World
Despite the potential benefits of facilitating access to youth-owned and –operated accounts, legal requirements can create unnecessary hurdles that...
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The Half-Baked War
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. After more than two weeks of bombing ISIL, what re-adjustments is the President making now th...
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The Danger in Political Melodrama
Cue the script: Dark music builds and a familiar villain—perhaps Scandal’s _Daddy Pope or _Batman’s Joker—sneaks into our sights, lurking. We know ...
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The Work-Life Ripple Effect
Work-life balance is having a moment, but for the wrong reasons. Although scholars have been researching work-life-fit for over 50 years, the 2008 ...
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Regulatory Environments for Youth Savings in the Developing World Blog Series Launch
Creating fertile environments for youth savings at financial institutions in the developing world could certainly lower the threshold of profitabil...
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The Weekly Wonk: We're All in the Poverty Fight
“The poor” aren’t other people – they’re us. According to recent scholarship, by the time we’re 75 years old, 59 percent of us will fall below the ...
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Silicon Valley Parents Send Their Kids Back to 1972
Most school field trips are to places the students might never go on their own: A museum, a play, a nature preserve. The idea is to open kids wide ...
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Can an unpopular governor win the presidency?
“The first thing many Americans want to know is how the economy is doing in their state and do the people there like him,” Zelizer said. He added t...
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Four Technologies That Will Carry The Weight Of War
“The bulk of the weight carried now,” Peter Singer, defense expert at New America Foundation, says, “is a combination of protective vest, flak vest...
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Panetta bombardment keeps focus on Obama for midterms
“You have to lean toward not responding,” said Princeton University political historian Julian Zelizer. “It’s hard for the president to get deep in...
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U.S. still wants global leadership role, survey says
Daniel Rothenberg, co-director of the Future of War Project at Arizona State University, said he believes there is a substantial divide in public o...
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Decision 2014: A Campaign About Nothing?
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent by both Democrats and Republicans to win control of Congress and gubernatorial seats, many of the big...
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Chinese Autonomous Tanks: Driving Themselves to a Battlefield Near You?
The US Navy made news this week by announcing a new type of autonomous robotic boat for protecting its fleet, but China is showing that it can play...
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NSA internal watchdog defends agency's privacy practices
It’s “heartening” that the NSA has some privacy protections in place, but “significant concerns” remain, said Robyn Greene, policy counsel at think...
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Hong Kong protestors might fail but that doesn’t mean the West shouldn’t take them seriously
Clearly, Hong Kong’s protestors have an uphill slog. The possibility of Beijing making significant concessions are almost nil. But it doesn’t make ...
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Leadership, Innovation and Ideas Series Featuring Fred and Joanne Wilson
Venture capitalists Fred and Joanne Wilson join New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter in the sixth installment of our Leadership, Inno...
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This is Elizabeth Warren's moment
If Warren handles the Federal Reserve oversight hearings about the tapes in the right way, they could attract huge interest and really define who s...
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How vulnerable is Obama because of his race?
As the first African American president, the same thing that makes President Obama so singular in history also may make him vulnerable in a way no ...
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What if US Congress was more like British parliament?
What if President Obama was subject to the same degree of direct scrutiny from Congress that his British counterpart Prime Minister David Cameron i...