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Subprime Learning
Early Education in America since the Great Recession
Five years ago, the United States was in the thick of the Great Recession, coping with a stock market crash and loss of jobs that would send afters...
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Why You Might Pay More Than Your Neighbor for the Same Bottle of Salad Dressing
Retailers don’t really talk about how to compete with Amazon—they talk about how to avoid being decimated by it. Up until now, companies have used ...
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Personal Pricing, Like Really Personal
The National Retail Federation held its annual convention in New York this week, drawing thousands of industry leaders keen to figure out how they’...
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NSA and your phone records: What should Obama do?
On Friday President Obama will address the nation about the NSA's controversial surveillance programs. He is expected to announce some substantive ...
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Big Beef
Imagine if the federal government mandated that a portion of all federal gas taxes go directly to the oil industry’s trade association, the America...
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Reining in the Cost of Connectivity
Policies for Better Broadband in 2014
Below you will find the text of Reining in the Cost of Connectivity: Policies for Better Broadband in 2014, a policy paper from the Open Technology...
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The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. Now, with a remarkabl...
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Digital Stewards Represent Detroit at the International Summit for Community Wireless in Berlin
Digital Stewards from Detroit and Red Hook, Brooklyn join forces in Berlin at the International Summit for Community Wireless[a] This is cross-post...
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Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorists?
On June 5, 2013, the Guardian broke the first story in what would become a flood of revelations regarding the extent and nature of the NSA’s survei...
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Time for the U.S. to Reskill? What the Survey of Adult Skills Says
According to a recentreport from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it is more common to find adults with low level...
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The Parent Trap
Early Education in America since the Great Recession
In fall 2011, the U.S. Department of Education quietly tightened the credit check criteria for Parent PLUS loans, a federal program that provides l...
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Al Qaeda controls more territory than ever in Middle East
From around Aleppo in western Syria to small areas of Falluja in central Iraq, al Qaeda now controls territory that stretches more than 400 miles a...
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Christie's all-expenses paid Dallas Cowboys trip raises 2016 concerns
Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University and a professor of political science, said Christie’s association with Jones raise...
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Bolder Obama ready to take on GOP
“President Obama has a lot of work to do getting his party ready for 2016,” Princeton University political historian Julian Zelizer said. “The ques...
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U.S. needs to stay in Afghanistan
This U.S. military presence in Afghanistan doesn't have to be a large, nor does it need to play a combat role, but U.S. troops should remain in Afg...
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Big Ideas for a New America
What if, upon graduating from high school, every young person was given an opportunity to complete a service year with other young people? Stan McC...
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‘Selma’ Reignites Controversy On LBJ’s Role In Civil Rights
“The debate isn’t just about L.B.J., but about how American politics works,” said Professor Zelizer, who teaches history at Princeton. “Is it a mat...
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Spectrum for Democracy: Special Issue of the Journal of Information Policy
The impact of communication technology, new media tools, and government censorship on free speech and democratic discourse has come into much great...
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Privacy in Muslim constitutions and Karzai’s refusal to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement
While it’s no secret that negative Afghan public opinion swirls around civilian deaths from raids — rightfully so — Karzai’s antipathy toward raids...
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Would NSA surveillance have stopped 9/11 plot?
The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future...
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Monsanto’s Scary New Scheme
Why Does It Really Want All This Data?
Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about ...