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The Affordable Care Act and Asset Limits: What’s Left Undone
Editor’s Note: This blog post is the third and final installment in a series by Julianna Lord, Emerson National Hunger Fellow, looking at how the A...
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The Most Influential of 2014: Edward Snowden | CRN
"Our findings indicate that the actions of the National Security Agency have already begun and will continue to cause significant damage to the int...
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New America’s International Security Program Launches Dynamic ISIS Map
Washington, DC — Today, New America’s International Security Program (ISP) launched a dynamic new map, “ISIS in Iraq,” that tracks the movement of ...
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Permanent Campaigner | Financial Times
Mark Schmitt: "That’s the core conflict within the centre left of the Democratic party, but it is hard to say exactly how it is fixed,” says Mark S...
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Iraq in Crisis: Is a Coup d'État Inevitable? | Bloomberg
New America Foundation's Tara Maller, Col. Cedric Leighton, former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Bloomberg's Phil Mattingly discuss the ...
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Political Unrest, Airstrikes Rock Iraq | SCPR
Douglas Ollivant, senior National Security Fellow at the New America Foundation, talked to Take Two on Monday about the situations brewing in Iraq.
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Cities Are Fighting States over Municipal Broadband | Governing
*Communities don’t raise and spend the large sums of money it takes to jump into the broadband business unless they are unserved or underserved by ...
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U.S. Actions in Iraq Fueled Rise of a Rebel | New York Times
“He has credibility because he runs half of Iraq and half of Syria,” said Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism researcher at the New America Foundatio...
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Tracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old | New York Times
Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in...
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The Big, Long, 30-Year Conservative Lie
Inequality, conservatives insist, is natural. Trying to combat it will slow growth. Well, guess who now says otherwise? Standard and Poor’s.
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WiFi to the Rescue? | The Wave
For Josh Breitbart of the OTI, the success of the mesh network is really up to the community. He says it builds on neighbor-to-neighbor connections...
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Asset Building News Week, August 4–8
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news ...
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Why Obama Will Bomb Syria | Politico
As the terrorism analysts Doug Ollivant and Brian Fishman have noted, ISIL “holds territory, provides limited services, dispenses a form of justice...
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Islamic State in Iraq and Syria | Council on Foreign Relations
"For al-Qaeda, attaching its name to Zarqawi's activities enabled it to maintain relevance even as its core forces were destroyed [in Afghanistan] ...
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SketchFactor app for unsafe areas in racism row | BBC
"Technology is only as good as the people who form part of its developer and user community," Seeta Peña Gangadharan, a senior research fellow at t...
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Obama: Iraq action will be limited | USA Today
"We could be in this game for a long time," said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow with the New America Foundation and director for Iraq at the Nat...
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The Dangers of High-Tech Profiling, Using Big Data
The rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech enterp...
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Will U.S. Troops Stand By While ISIS Starves Thousands? | Daily Beast
The situation is dire, but legal constraints may limit U.S. options for direct assistance to the Kurds, said Douglas Ollivant, a former U.S. Army o...
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Last-ditch Efforts May Fail to Save Gaza Truce | Aljazeera America
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Washington, DC, Leila Hilal, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said: "We could very well see a resumption ...
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U.S. general's killing may be a bad omen
The attack is an ominous sign regarding the potential risks to American service members as the majority of U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan.