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Petition the Copyright Office for Your Digital Rights
Tell the Copyright Office you want the right to repair and modify the electronics you own
When you bought your car, did you ask whether copyright law would prevent you from bringing it to your local (non-dealer) repair shop to get it fix...
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Supplemental Brief on Legal Authority for Mobile Net Neutrality
Click here to read the full document New America’s Open Technology Institute (“OTI”) has filed extensive comments, reply comments and ex parte fili...
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12 Numbers That Show America's Internet Has An Equality Problem
*$51 -- The average monthly price of broadband service in 2014, according to the nonprofit New America Foundation. *
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Tom plays Phoenix
I'll be speaking next week in Phoenix. Come on down. Here are the details: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7 p.m. The location is First Amendment Foru...
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Rethink Borders
Why We Need a North American Passport
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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Education Should Strengthen Oversight of Schools and Accreditors
Featured Report
The U.S. Government Accountability Office recently released a report showing that colleges and universities with lower academic outcomes were no mo...
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How Obama will be on the ballot in 2016
President Obama needs to keep his eyes on 2016. Realistically, this is the best way that he can bolster his own legacy and that of his party -- hel...
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Why we need a North American Passport
A North American passport would reflect the unique relationship and shared interests among our nations. In the face of growing competition from ris...
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Net Neutrality’s Achilles Heel
Interconnection abuse could break the Internet -- but the FCC can stop it
Last week, elected officials, tech companies, and consumer advocates gathered on Capitol Hill for hearings on a controversial bill that would put a...
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LBJ, Congress and the age of change
"The Great Society changed America not simply beause the parties changed," Zelizer says. "Tthose policies remain enduring and remain an integral pa...
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Why Obama is going to visit Saudi King
Despite Saudi oil policies that benefit American economic interests, the Saudi-American alliance--which was more like a melding of minds under the ...
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ISI should stop supporting attacks on Indian targets in Afghanistan: Professor Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven, professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar, has written extensively on Islamist terrorism and Pakistan....
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Apply to be a 2016 New America Fellow
New America’s Fellows Program invests in thinkers — academics, journalists, independent scholars, and public policy analysts — who offer fresh and ...
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Asset Building News Week, January 19 – January 23
The State of the Union President Obama used his sixth State of the Union address to direct the nation’s attention to the widening wealth-gap betwee...
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China Gets Three Warships in One Day
Not since World War II has a single shipyard launched multiple large warships in a single day. But Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, one of Chi...
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Re-Assessing LBJ
Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer is the author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress and the Battle for the Great Soc...
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Keystone XL Pipeline May Force Republicans to Embrace Climate Change
Still, the Senate results this week mark some progress in advancing the GOP's acceptance of the climate science, said Julian Zelizer, a history pro...
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In 2015, the 'Future' Approaches
Flying cars and hovercrafts are possible, though concept cars designed in recent years for limited flight are “not that economical or realistic in ...
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Objects in Motion Stay in Motion – Or Do They?
2015 has started off right where 2014 ended – with a tricky state of affairs for those in the investing business. Trends have extended – good for t...
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Pakistan not on the brink but on a rethink
Anatol Lieven, author of "Pakistan: A Hard Country", said Pakistan now has a new attitude towards domestic militancy but fear of India has not gone...