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Portrait of the Army as a Work in Progress
“In the age of the strategic corporal, "Got me!" is of course the wrong answer to journalistic queries. It has the distinct virtue of honesty, howe...
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Death of the Infomercial
Since the 1950s, late night TV has been the world of the infomercial: late night hucksters selling ginsu knives, wearable towels, Snuggies... But i...
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New America Welcomes Sharon E. Burke as Senior Advisor to International Security Program
WASHINGTON, DC— New America is pleased to announce that Sharon E. Burke will join its International Security Program as a Senior Advisor, starting ...
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Human Rights and Technology Organizations Submit Joint Recommendations to the U.S. Government on the Implementation of the 2013 Wassenaar Amendments on Surveillance Technology
The transfer of commercial censorship and surveillance technology produced and exported by American and European companies to repressive countries ...
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85,000 low-income youth open savings accounts through YouthSave
Washington, DC - Dispelling the myth that poverty is the biggest barrier to saving, the latest figures from a five-year program indicate that 85,00...
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The Art of the Possible: An Overview of Public Broadband Options
Broadband has become a critical infrastructure for communities in the 21st century. From a variety of sectors, including commerce, education, healt...
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What's at stake in war against girls' kidnappers?
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, a militant Islamist organization, released a video on Monday claiming responsibility for kidnapping more...
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The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2013
The annual Freshmen survey, a report from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA, recently released findings based on survey respon...
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Can Philanthropy Work for CSAs?
The 2014 Children’s Savings Conference organized by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) recently provided a fantastic opportunity to ...
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Beyond Net Neutrality
That's how things worked when Tim Wu, an academic who's now a law professor at Columbia, coined the term network neutrality in 2002. ISPs purchased...
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A Network Model of Broadband Adoption: Using Twitter to Document Detroit Future
Preliminary Analysis by the Open Technology Institute
From 2010 to 2012, the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) conducted a federally-funded training program in digital media that they called “De...
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Building an AOTC Movement
Strengthening Outreach for a Reformed American Opportunity Tax Credit
Today, too many families fail to claim higher education tax benefits for which they are eligible. For example, a Government Accountability Office (...
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Pay More, Get Less
How American Socio-Economic Policy Is Falling Short
The American middle class faces an uncertain future. Staring headlong into a difficult – and changing – world economy that has yet to fully recover...
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New America’s Sascha Meinrath Launches X-Lab: Innovative Platform to Anticipate and Prepare for Future Disruptions in Tech Policy
Incubator will bring together tech experts & thought leaders from around the globe
WASHINGTON, DC — Community Internet pioneer and entrepreneurial visionary Sascha Meinrath announced the launch today of X-Lab, an innovative platfo...
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No Good Men Among the Living
America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliba...
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TESTIMONY: Drone Wars
The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing
The CIA drone program began quietly under President George W. Bush with one strike in Yemen in 2002, and then a smattering of strikes in Pakistan b...
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Moving Toward E-rate Reform: Focused comments on high-speed Internet access and better program transparency
As summer vacation approaches, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving forward on its plans to bring next-generation Internet connect...
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Reply Comments on Modernizing the E-rate Program for Schools and Libraries
The following is the introduction to the comments. Download a PDF of the full comments here. In the past year, the Federal Communications Commissio...
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Musings on the Wars on Poverty
This month the U.S. celebrated the 50-year mark for its domestic War on Poverty. Pundits from the left, right, and everywhere in between opined on ...
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Obama's high-stakes drone war in Yemen
The U.S. drone campaign in Yemen is very much President Obama's war.