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Tim Wu runs for New York State Lieutenant Governor, promising to clamp down on big business
Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who coined the term "Net Neutrality," is running for Lieutenant Governor of New York State on a leftist, reform ...
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Tim Wu Makes A Bid For Net Neutrality
The internet has revolutionized human connectivity, but can be described, most simply, as a public space. Which is why New York state residents oug...
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Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship.
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How Should The U.S. Leave Afghanistan?
As New America Fellow Anand Gopal recently wrote, "The categories we take as rigid and unchanging, such as 'terrorist', are in fact remarkably flui...
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America's Debt Problem
How Private Debt Is Holding Back Growth and Hurting the Middle Class
Over time, the US economy has become more dependent on debt to fuel economic growth. American households, in particular, have become dependent on d...
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Commotion Wireless As A Community Technology
The Open Technology Institute (OTI) gathered innovative community technologists and organizers from India and Nepal for the first international Com...
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Access to what and for whom? A closer look at federal Parent PLUS loans
A recentreport from AEI considers the federal Parent PLUS loan program: the types of institutions that benefit from the program, the types of famil...
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How America became uncompetitive and unequal
Since the early 1980s, executives and financiers have consolidated control over dozens of industries across the U.S. economy. From cable companies ...
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Citizen Science
A Pathway to Civic Action
At last week’s Personal Democracy Forum, Matt Stempeck who has led work on participatory civic projects out of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, modera...
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Americans Have Never Had So Few Options in Deciding What Company Makes Their Meat
Americans, as it turns out, have actually never had so few options in deciding what company makes their meat. "The US meat industry is more consoli...
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A Father's Day Wish
BThis Father's Day, I'm thinking about the many ways that dads and moms keep the ever-whirling merry-go-round of life with small kids manageable. I...
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Meet the Man Who's Trying to Predict and Fight Tech's Future Battles | BuzzFeed
Sascha Meinrath is tired of fighting tech's biggest policy battles from behind. As the founder of the Open Technology Institute, an institution tha...
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Right-wing extremists strike again
The Millers appear to have been motivated by extreme far-right views. The couple left a flag at the scene of the crime with the words "Don't Tread ...
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12 Questions About Bowe Bergdahl, Answered
According to Anand Gopal, an expert on the Taliban at the New America Foundation, "of the five released Taliban," he writes, "only 2 have the poten...
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The End of YouthSave Colombia?
YouthSave's last event in Colombia was bittersweet for YouthSave staff, partners and participants as it marked the beginning of the end for YouthSa...
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Tyson Foods Wins Hillshire, Eyes Breakfast Growth
Christopher Leonard, author of the recently released book “The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business”, said the merger would ...
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Mark Abramson: Neither Here Nor There
As a part of a rotating photography series at New America NYC, we are proud to present the newest exhibit, Mark Abramson’s Neither Here Nor There. ...
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How big a terror risk are former Guantanamo prisoners?
In order to shed some light on exactly which graduates from Guantanamo have joined a militant group or engaged in some other kind of terrorist acti...
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APPENDIX: How Dangerous are Freed Guantanamo Prisoners?
As of June 5, 2014, 620 Guantanamo prisoners have been released or transferred abroad. Of those 620, we have identified 54 who are either confirmed...