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Why the White House can be like a jail house for presidents
The trade-off for securing the president usually means also secluding the president. Julian Zelizer, Marc Ambinder, Christina Greer and Bob Franken...
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An Afghan miracle
On Monday Afghans formed a "national unity government" with the once-bitter rivals Dr. Ashraf Ghani, taking the role of president and Dr. Adullah A...
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Morning Cybersecurity
Scholar and strategist Peter Singer: “That somehow all your cyber fears can be solved by handing over the problem to a ‘man on cyber horseback’ who...
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Michael M. Crow and Mohamed A. El-Erian Join New America’s Board of Directors
Washington, DC — New America announced that Michael M. Crow, Arizona State University President, and Mohamed A. El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor at...
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Asset Building News Week, September 29-October 3
Inequality Evidence that inequality is growing in size and pace continues piling up. A chart that easily summarizes this new evidence received mass...
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Phase Two of the E-rate Modernization Process
Recommendations to the FCC on how to better support broadband connectivity at schools and libraries
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made significant strides in the past year toward the modernization of E-rate, the program that subs...
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6 articles you need to read about Net Neutrality
Soon, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is expected to make a decision on what the future of the Internet could look like. The...
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Feminism at a Crossroad Podcast
A Broadly Speaking event in collaboration with The New Republic
Feminism is currently having a cultural moment. It is part of mainstream culture in a way that has not been seen before the popular influence of Sh...
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Starving Ideas
For a big part of my life, I assumed that the scarce resource—the thing that was preventing me from getting to Mars, or having my own personal jetp...
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CHEOS - China's New Eye In Space
While China has made many recent advances in defense space technology, it still lags behind the U.S. when it comes to imaging satellites. But recen...
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Nat Geo's 'American War Generals': A sad tale wrapped around a big contradiction
If this was the greatest army in history, why was it unable to prevail in Afghanistan and Iraq?
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How Norway Became a Beacon of Gender Equality
Norway is world famous for its fjords and its Viking history, but it’s also well-known as a global beacon for gender equality. On September 24 at a...
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Is Santa Claus in a New War Zone or a Growth Market?
Of all those in Russia’s “near abroad,” who nervously look over their shoulders at Ukraine and wonder who is next, there is one individual with mor...
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The Weekly Wonk: A New Kind of Campus Diversity
Promoting diversity in education was one the biggest and most widely practiced ideas of the 20th century. But as Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Pr...
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What Happened to the Power of the People?
The flood of responses was “unprecedented.” Since the early 20th century, agencies like the Federal Communications Commission have asked the public...
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Call Me a Feminist
“Where are all the women?” That was the question Vivek Wadhwa’s wife whispered to him at the 2009 “Crunchies Awards” – the tech industry’s Oscars. ...
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Making Dual Language Learning More Effective
My elementary school had a separate classroom for students who were non-native speakers of English. As far as my friends and I were concerned, it w...
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The Dangers of Off-Grid Social Networking in Hong Kong and Beyond
FireChat doesn't need the Internet but it is not risk-free.
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Hong Kong's Surprising Twist
New America Fellow Mei Fong explains what you need to know about Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, and why the violent turn was so unexpected. More:...
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J-10B “Vigorous Dragon” Fighter Jets Are A Full Set, Soon To Be A Regiment
New pictures have emerged of additional production models of the J-10B “Vigorous Dragon” fighter jets, one of the latest planes to equip China’s gr...