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New America Experts Respond to McCutcheson v. Federal Election Commission Ruling
WASHINGTON, DC – Experts at New America’s Political Reform Program and Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative have been closely following Mc...
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OTI Joins Letter Urging End to Bulk Data Collection
Today, OTI and a coalition of over 30 other organizations sent a letter to leaders in Washington calling for an end to the government's bulk collec...
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OTI Sends Letter to Congress on the IANA Transition
Today, OTI and a coalition of public interest organizations sent a letter to Congress on the IANA transition ahead of the April 2 hearing on "Ensur...
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Cash Is King, Even When It Phones In
This is the first installment of our series, Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked While Making Bank. The series explores how some private sector enter...
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Treasure at the Bottom of the Pyramid
This is the second installment of our series, Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked While Making Bank. The first post in the series drew the conclusion...
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Why the Saudis unfriended the U.S.
What went wrong? In recent months the normally hyper-discreet Saudis have gone on the record about their dissatisfactions with the Obama administra...
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The Graduate Student Debt Review: The State of Graduate Student Borrowing
A recent policy brief from the New America Foundation reports that the largest overall changes in student borrowing are at the graduate student lev...
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The Assets Perspective
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
I am very pleased to announce the publication of The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and it Impact on Social Policy. It’s a 13-chapt...
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Envisioning a Digital Age Architecture for Early Education
The young children of today will soon grow into the middle-schoolers of the next decade, the high school graduates of the late 2020s, and the citiz...
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Future Tense Initiative & Tsinghua University Launch New U.S.-China Green Electronics Competition
Competition to Encourage Innovation on E-Waste Prevention
WASHINGTON, DC — The Future Tense initiative – a partnership of New America, Arizona State University, and Slate magazine – is pleased to announce ...
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Get the government out of your phone records
The Obama administration is proposing to scrap the NSA's bulk collection of all Americans' phone call records. The administration's proposal is emi...
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The Graduate Student Debt Review
New America analysis of recently available Department of Education data reveals that much of America’s student debt problem may be a result of expe...
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US Government Authorizes American Companies to Offer Online Courses in Iran
For the Persian New Year, the Obama Administration gave the gift of online learning to citizens in Iran. Specifically, the Treasury Department auth...
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Net Neutrality and the Fight for Your TV
“We could remember this as the beginning of the cable-ization of the Internet,” lawyer and Internet policy expert Marvin Ammori said, “where some ‘...
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Driving Out of the Red with Greener Cars
Policies for Cheaper, Cleaner Auto Transportation in California's Central Valley
Income inequality in California is already high, and it continues to increase. This income inequality is exacerbated by unequal access to jobs, cre...
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Time to Improve
How Federal Policy Can Promote Better Prepared Teachers and School Leaders
While educator preparation has always been important, it is now more important than ever. Currently, there are more first year teachers in the Unit...
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Comments on the Open Internet Remand
Below is an excerpt of the Open Technology Institute's comments to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of the Open Internet Remand....
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Pakistan sheltered Bin Laden? Prove it
It is, of course, hard to prove negatives, but having spent around a year reporting intensively on the hunt for al Qaeda's leader for my 2012 book ...
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Twittersphere Rallies to Help Turks By-Pass Block
Emily Parker, a New America Foundation fellow who has a new book on digital activism in authoritarian governments, noted that many people are able ...
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Global Money Week 2014
Global Money Week, a yearly worldwide celebration organized by the Child and Youth Finance International Secretariat aimed at empowering "the next ...
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TESTIMONY: After the Withdrawal
The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
This past Saturday, March 16, 2013 marked an extraordinary moment in Pakistan’s history, as this is the first time that a civilian government has s...
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A Real Step? The Future of ICANN and How to Support It
“Control” of the Internet has been a contentious issue for a long time. The 1990s witnessed tension between the Internet’s founders such as Jon Pos...