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| November 20, 2014
M. V. Lee Badgett
What’s the secret to convincing the world to back a movement? Figure out how it could impact the global bottom line. Economic reasoning is part of ...
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| November 20, 2014
Lenore Skenazy
The Richland, WA, school district is phasing out swings on its playgrounds. As the district's spokesman recently told KEPR TV: "It's just really a ...
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| November 20, 2014
Sanam Vakil
We’re down to the wire. The November 24 deadline for the Iranian nuclear deal is looming. In this final week, negotiators from the P5 +1 and Iran a...
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| November 20, 2014
Gary Barker
It was the latest setback for women’s empowerment. But you probably haven’t heard about it. Part of the gender equality goal set to replace one of ...
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| November 20, 2014
Why is Thanksgiving dinner always late, and why does it last so long? It’s one of the last refuges of irreducible inefficiency, a throwback to the ...
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Last month’s MozFest 2014 provided us a welcome opportunity to think about what we at New America’s Open Technology Insititute hope to do over the ...
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The Open Technology Institute is pleased to support the efforts of the Woodlawn Broadband Expansion Partnership to bring gigabit connectivity to un...
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It has been over a year and a half since America first began to learn about the broad scope of the NSA’s surveillance programs. After months of car...
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When Apple and Google announced their plans to enable encryption by default on new iPhones and Android smartphones, they ignited a ferocious debate...
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Postal Banking The U.S. Postal Service’s Inspector General issued a request for proposals this week to solicit strategies from stakeholders on expa...
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| November 13, 2014
If you’re a woman living in Raqqa, Iraq, you already had enough to worry about: your government recently lost a quarter of the country to the Islam...
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| November 13, 2014
In the expensive briar patch that is American healthcare, generic drugs have been key to keeping costs down. But intellectual property provisions i...
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| November 13, 2014
New America
On Monday, President Obama announced his support for net neutrality- the idea that the Internet should remain free and open, and Internet Service P...
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| November 13, 2014
Douglas Ollivant
Douglas Ollivant, ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America, explains that as we observe Veterans Day, we should also remember that the childr...
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| November 13, 2014
Eric Holthaus
The United States and China—the world’s biggest contributors to climate change—just produced a game changer. Leaders of the two countries jointly a...
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| November 13, 2014
New America
When the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, some say our world order cracked wide open. This month’s twenty-fifth anniversary of that miles...
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| November 13, 2014
Levi Tillemann
A casual reading of human history (or a high school textbook) might suggest the crucifixion of Jesus, Matthew Perry’s opening of Japan, and D-day a...
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| November 13, 2014
She was 14. She believed them when they told her that her future – her own family, a home, economic salvation – was just a few feet away. That lie ...
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| November 13, 2014
If we can end the elitism and teach more science fiction to teenagers and young adults, we can change the world. This assertion, while bold, may no...
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OTI’s comments and reply comments have described at length major changes in the broadband ecosystem over the past five years that make it increasin...
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Research Shows it is Technically Feasible and Legally Possible
The tech policy world is still abuzz from President Obama’s endorsement of strong net neutrality rules. But in addition to calling for broadband to...
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Featured Report
States contributed $11 billion in financial aid to students enrolled in higher education in the 2012-2013 academic year according to a recent repor...