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Making the Hours Count
With growing public interest in how states and localities provide access to pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, policymakers are increasingly being ...
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Privacy Groups Submit Comments to the NTIA on Metadata Privacy Protections
Yesterday, OTI joined a coalition of public interest organizations, including Public Knowledge, Common Cause, and Free Press in submitting comments...
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Zero Marginal Cost
The New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program today released a new higher education policy brief, “Zero Marginal Cost,” investigating the c...
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Trust and Economic Growth in China
Guests include Madeleine Lynn, Director of Communications at Carnegie Council; Evan Osnos, staff writer at The New Yorker; Hao Wu, fellow at the Ne...
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Can a Rebuilt Gaza Build Economy? | Marketplace
Leila Hilal, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said Gaza has human capital that could drive economic development. “Gazans are very enter...
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Is Perpetual War Now A Part Of The U.S. Psyche? | Huffington Post
How has the collective American psyche shifted since the 9/11 attack? HuffPost Live's "Always At War" series looks into the evolution of U.S. forei...
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Why Even the Definition of “Cyber Attack” Matters
Although definitional debates can sometimes seem pedantic, debates over the term “cyber attack” are an important exception. How “cyber attack” is d...
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Israel, Hamas to Negotiate New Gaza Border Deal Amidst Truce | CTV
Lisa Goldman on outlines of a Gaza solution after a tentative Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
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Why even the toughest sanctions on Russia may not change Putin's behavior | Vox
In light of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy and mounting unrest in Ukraine, the European Union and the United States have moved to impose new sanctio...
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What Are America's Interests In Israel? | Huffington Post
Lisa Goldman: Why does the United States continue to get involved in Israeli politics? Today HuffPost Live's "Always At War" series looks at how U....
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What's Inside the FCC's E-rate Order?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its E-rate Order in late July, the biggest overhaul of the program since it was created 17 yea...
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Techno Sapiens: The Digital College Dropout Edition
Welcome to the third episode of Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of ...
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Containing the ISIS Threat | The Epoch Times
To defeat your enemy, you should know your enemy. If the heart of today’s challenge in Iraq is the Islamic State, then we must neutralize it. But, ...
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Open Data and Transparency
“Open data has many practical and normative implications. Open data policies support an ecosystem of valuable social and political tenet," said Lau...
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Selective Leviathans: Explaining State Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Consolidation | Précis
In the second half of the twentieth century, civil wars eclipsed inter–state war as the "far greater scourge" in terms of death toll, duration, and...
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Guest Post: Recap from New America NYC: Rich Hill
Editor's Note: This post, which was originally publishedon the New America NYC blog, provides a summary of an Asset Building Program event featurin...
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Terrorist Armies Fight Smarter and Deadlier Than Ever | Washington Post
Military transformations can be hard to detect. They generally occur over decades, sometimes over generations. Soldiers are usually the first to re...
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The Future Internet World Order | TIME Magazine
Pay attention to the "swing states" that will determine the future of Internet governance, which depends on a reshuffling of the prevailing world o...
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Asset Building News Week, July 28–August 1
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 China's Second-Baby Boom Might Not Happen
“Every metric thus far indicates the loosening isn’t leading to a baby boom,” says Mei Fong, author of a forthcoming book on China’s population pol...
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Exporting Surveillance: A New International Security Issue
Network surveillance systems and intrusion software were recently added to the list of conventional and dual-use technologies that are controlled u...
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Broad Coalition Including OTI Supports Updated USA FREEDOM Act to Rein In NSA Surveillance
Washington, DC — New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI), on behalf of a broad and bipartisan coalition of over forty civil liberties and hum...