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The Weakened USA FREEDOM Act
The new manager’s amendment version of the USA FREEDOM Act to be considered on the House floor is a substantially weakened reform bill compared to ...
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Is It Still Worth Going to College?
Featured Report
A recentEconomic Letter from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examines the value of attending college by comparing annual earnings of coll...
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3 Ways Government Can Unleash the Power of Feedback
This post from OTI’s Civic Innovation Team originally appeared on OpenSource.com Open government is a critical dimension to democracy. It is also d...
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The Rise of Blogger-Activists, and the Regimes that Rule by Fear
Emily Parker, author of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, joins the program to explain how the Internet is helping to change activism. Click here to ...
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Obama Should Fire His FCC Chairman
We could’ve seen this coming. Amazon, embroiled in protracted negotiations over new contract terms with the book publisher Hachette, is using its m...
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Ousting Women Leaders
It's more than 'management style'
In June 2011, Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock praised the company’s first female chief executive, Carol Bartz, at the annual shareholder meeting. She wa...
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U.S. military UAV guys talk a good game, but do they have their eye on the ball?
America needs better training for the technology it already has. That, and a major doctrinal shift.
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How Islamic is Pakistan’s Constitution
A lot has happened since that first, subsequently failed, formal meeting between the government and the Taliban negotiation team in the "journey fo...
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Civic Innovation Beyond Civic Technology
A sneak peek of New America's recent civic innovation brainstorm. More soon._ Technology has become part of nearly everything we do in our public a...
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A Decision That Helped Shape Michelle Obama | The New York Times
Liza Mundy: "Race for her has been a little bit of a third rail, an area in which she’s had to be careful...I don’t feel like she has unleashed the...
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What We Know About Accelerated Developmental Education
A recentreport from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) examined accelerated developmental education at four community colleges to compare...
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‘Net Neutrality’ Puts FCC at Center of Storm
Silicon Valley is “very frustrated,” said Marvin Ammori, a technology-policy consultant who helped organize a letter of protest to the FCC from mor...
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Drones will fill the sky
*Not so long ago, killing an American citizen on the other side of the world with an armed drone would have been in the realm of science fiction. *
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In Google case, E.U. court says people are entitled to control their own online histories
“It definitely makes Europe a less favorable place for these companies to do business. . . . But that’s a balance these countries are allowed to ma...
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An Interview with Raju Shrestha, Senior Officer of Marketing and Corporate Communication, Bank of Kathmandu, and YouthSave Product Champion
Raju Shrestha shares learnings and insights from his participation in the YouthSave project. Please introduce yourself and provide us with some his...
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A Victory for Digital Justice
Your Tax Dollars at Work
In 2009, digital justice coalitions in Detroit and Philadelphia seized an opportunity to turn a new federal policy into a lasting transformation of...
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X-Lab Prepares For Tech Policy Battles In The Far Future, Three Years Off | TechPresident
For the past seven years Sascha Meinrath and his team at the New America Foundation have made the Open Technology Institute a force for promoting a...
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New America on President Obama’s MyRA: Has Potential, But Can Do More
Experts Recommend Policy Changes to Maximize Impacts and Promote Savings
WASHINGTON, DC – The looming crisis in retirement savings has prompted both state and federal proposals to improve access to retirement savings veh...
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Solving the Retirement Puzzle
The Potential of myRAs to Build a Personal Safety Net
The growing recognition that millions of Americans are ill-prepared for retirement has prompted a number of state and federal policy proposals to p...
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Think Local First
3 Innovation Strategies for City Economies
An image from David Macauley's Underground, source: http://socks-studio.com/ This post from OTI’s Civic Innovation Team is part of the Meeting of t...
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Technology Should: A People's Technology Project at the DC Funk Parade
With recent NSA mass surveillance revelations, the Comcast and Time Warner Cable merger deal, and the uncertain future of net neutrality, the Open ...
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Defending the Open Internet
Tim Wu, 41, a law professor at Columbia University, isn’t a direct participant in the rule making, but he is influencing it. A dozen years ago, bui...