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| January 15, 2015
What determines your destiny? That’s a big question with what should be a complicated answer. But for many, the answer can be reduced to one word: ...
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| January 15, 2015
Picture this: A four-year-old is in a sandbox, running sand and pebbles through a sieve. An adult is at his side, asking him to describe the speed ...
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| January 15, 2015
Sarabrynn Hudgins
You’ve heard about Tiger Mothers. But do you know about Hero Mothers? Kyrgyzstan has a policy that designates women who have seven or more children...
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| January 15, 2015
Salamishah Tillet
In 1964, Bob Dylan, author of the early-1960s protest anthem “Blowin in the Wind” and one of the most celebrated political singers of his generatio...
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New Order Brings More Money and Better Rules Supporting Fiber Investment
Schools and libraries are going to get a big boost in their Internet connectivity over the next few years. The Federal Communications Commission (F...
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“Big Ideas for a New America” at CNN.com
From Leonardo da Vinci to Bertrand Russell, great artists and thinkers have made a practice of what we instinctively know: our greatest ideas often...
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Privacy groups urge FCC Chairman and Commissioners to Resolve E911 Privacy Concerns
When you dial 911, you expect emergency responders to—well—respond, often by coming to you. But as more and more people use mobile devices to conta...
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The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation and Public Knowledge submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ...
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Nicholas Brock
A recent paper published by the National College Access Network (NCAN) and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center analyzed the rates of...
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| January 08, 2015
In the modern era killing those who purportedly have defamed Islam began with the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini’s infamous fatwa—religious ruling—that...
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| January 08, 2015
Ari Ratner
Does America need an Arab Spring? It’s a question that may seem absurd after the turmoil following the revolutions of 2011. Yet, it’s the question ...
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| January 08, 2015
Yascha Mounk
Wednesday morning, two assailants armed with Kalashnikovs forced their way into the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine...
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The middle class is in terrible shape. Wages are stagnant, the middle class’s share of the nation’s wealth has been declining for decades, and ordi...
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| January 08, 2015
Morwari Zafar
Have you ever been so heartbroken that you joined the conservative faction of a local mosque? Khalid did, because he felt he had no other way to co...
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| January 08, 2015
Jeremiah Foxwell
What’s next for the Islamic State in 2015? Clandestine domination, and exploiting America’s huge regional blind spots. The Islamic State of Iraq an...
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| January 08, 2015
The huge drop in oil prices in 2014 might have come as a shock to you, unless you saw it coming. Germany's win in the World Cup probably came as le...
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| January 08, 2015
The more technology they accumulated, the more profoundly powerless they felt. That was the paradox Hahrie Han and Elizabeth McKenna discovered as ...
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New America
It’s 2015 and in the entire history of the U.S. Senate, only 44 women have ever served as senators. Especially with numbers like that, we have to w...
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The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation joined Public Knowledge in submitting reply opposition comments to the Federal Communic...
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Jay Pelosky
As 2015 dawns the prospect looms of another year of disappointing global growth. Broken growth models litter the economic landscape. Divergent cent...
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A Background Primer
New America
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher learning established prior to 1964 with the education of black Amer...
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A Background Primer
New America
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): A Background Primer In the early 1980s, a series of congressional hearings on Latino access to higher educati...