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| October 09, 2014
Nanette Fondas
Work-life balance is having a moment, but for the wrong reasons. Although scholars have been researching work-life-fit for over 50 years, the 2008 ...
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| October 09, 2014
New America
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. After more than two weeks of bombing ISIL, what re-adjustments is the President making now th...
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| October 09, 2014
Elisabeth Anker
Cue the script: Dark music builds and a familiar villain—perhaps Scandal’s _Daddy Pope or _Batman’s Joker—sneaks into our sights, lurking. We know ...
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Soon, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is expected to make a decision on what the future of the Internet could look like. The...
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Inequality Evidence that inequality is growing in size and pace continues piling up. A chart that easily summarizes this new evidence received mass...
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Recommendations to the FCC on how to better support broadband connectivity at schools and libraries
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made significant strides in the past year toward the modernization of E-rate, the program that subs...
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article
| October 02, 2014
Neal Stephenson
For a big part of my life, I assumed that the scarce resource—the thing that was preventing me from getting to Mars, or having my own personal jetp...
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| October 02, 2014
New America
Norway is world famous for its fjords and its Viking history, but it’s also well-known as a global beacon for gender equality. On September 24 at a...
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| October 02, 2014
Of all those in Russia’s “near abroad,” who nervously look over their shoulders at Ukraine and wonder who is next, there is one individual with mor...
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The flood of responses was “unprecedented.” Since the early 20th century, agencies like the Federal Communications Commission have asked the public...
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“Where are all the women?” That was the question Vivek Wadhwa’s wife whispered to him at the 2009 “Crunchies Awards” – the tech industry’s Oscars. ...
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| October 02, 2014
My elementary school had a separate classroom for students who were non-native speakers of English. As far as my friends and I were concerned, it w...
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| October 02, 2014
New America Fellow Mei Fong explains what you need to know about Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, and why the violent turn was so unexpected. More:...
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Joint Recommendations from the Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program on E-rate Modernization
Yesterday, New America’s Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program submitted joint reply comments with Common Cause to the FCC in the ...
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Today, the Mozilla and Ford Foundations announced they will be sponsoring their first class of Open Web Fellows in 2015, to begin building a new wo...
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Since June 2013, senior officials from Brasilia to Berlin have advanced proposals to protect data from foreign surveillance and gain “technological...
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Featured Report
The recently released 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances from The Federal Reserve points to increased student loan debt among young Americans (famili...
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Melissa Goldberg
Guest Blog Post: This post is contributed by Melissa Goldberg, Innovation Strategist at Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund. You can learn more about D2D...
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| September 26, 2014
Claude S. Fischer
Over the course of the last 15 years or so, there’s been an explosion in the number of charter schools around the country. According to the latest ...
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Poverty The new Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, was interviewed in an article for Politico Pro on the ...
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| September 26, 2014
On Tuesday, President Obama made what was, for many, a surprising announcement. Not only had the United States conducted the first air strikes on t...
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If you want to learn how the economy works, what do you study? Most people would respond with “economics.” But today, there is a growing concern th...