In The News
- in the news | February 09, 2015 | Fellows
Christie's 2016 prospects dented, not demolished, GOP donors and operatives say
The trip to London "certainly wasn't a stunning success," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of political science at Princeton University and a presi... - in the news | February 06, 2015 | Future of War
China Flies its Largest Ever Drone: The Divine Eagle
Peter Warren SingerNew images of testing materials have emerged of China's largest ever UAV, the secretive Divine Eagle. Compared to other Chinese aviation projects l... - in the news | February 06, 2015 | Open Technology Institute
Designing With, Not For
Issue #2 of Civic Quarterly centers around the phrase “Design with, not for,” an idea originally introduced by Laurenellen McCann that was constant... - in the news | February 06, 2015 | International Security
Debating U.S. Foreign Policy: Where are the Women?
It was assumed that I would take a secondary role and men were given the last word,” said DiMaggio, an expert dialogue practitioner who runs New Am... - in the news | February 06, 2015 | Fellows
Christie's U.K. trip a 'failure,' presidential scholars say
"The vaccine statement wasn't in his best interest," said Zelizer. "It goes against the kind of conservative he's trying to paint himself — a fisca... - in the news | February 06, 2015 | Fellows
History professor lectures on LBJ’s Great Society
“The most iconic image of Lyndon Johnson that I’ve seen … is where he hovered over opponents, where he hovered over his supporters, and he seduced ... - in the news | February 06, 2015 | Fellows
Obama, Slavery, Jim Crow, and Christianity
As Julian Zelizer puts it in his terrific history of the era, southern opponents of Civil Rights legislation saw its proponents as “radical agitato... - in the news | February 05, 2015 | International Security
Journeys into the vanishing religions of the Middle East
Gerald RussellMany of the legislative achievements of the Johnson administration transformed the nation and remain controversial, including the Voting Rights Act... - in the news | February 05, 2015 | Fellows
Lyndon Johnson and The Great Society
Many of the legislative achievements of the Johnson administration transformed the nation and remain controversial, including the Voting Rights Act... - in the news | February 05, 2015 | Open Technology Institute
People First, Tech Second: 5 Criteria for Community-Driven Civic Tech
Beyond direct application to the Experimental Modes initiative, my goal in creating these criteria was to define the leanest standard possible for ... - in the news | February 05, 2015 | Future of War
New Chinese Helicopters on the Way
Peter Warren SingerIn late January 2015 new images appeared online of a snow covered airfield in northern China, where a heavy Z-18A utility helicopter took a test fl... - in the news | February 04, 2015 | Education Policy
Corporate America and free community college: A match made in economic heaven
“Talking about postsecondary education as a universal need is a big deal,” says Mary Alice McCarthy, a senior policy analyst at the New America Fou... - in the news | February 03, 2015 | International Security
Armed Conflict and Compliance in Muslim States, 1947–2014: Does Conflict Look Different under International Humanitarian Law?
Regions with large Muslim populations in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa are no strangers to conflict and warfare, including protracted strife. Y... - in the news | February 02, 2015 | International Security
Rethinking Hostage Policies In An Era Of Violent Extremism
The U.S., Japan and other nations strongly condemned the apparent beheading of a Japanese journalist by the extremist group known as the Islamic St... - in the news | February 02, 2015 | Asset Building
What Can We Learn from Obama’s Failure to Curb Sec. 529 College Savings Accounts?
As Justin King has noted, some states including Maine, Rhode Island and Nevada are trying to encourage college attendance by setting up accounts fo... - in the news | February 02, 2015 | International Security
The big dangers of big data
The central claim of data proponents is that data always has some positive value. This premise is false. Data-gathering that seems innocuous enough... - in the news | February 02, 2015
Why Are American Schools Obsessed With Turning Kids Into Robots?
High-stakes testing has failed as a stand-alone measure of performance for students, teachers, schools, and districts, according to Kamenetz, but t... - in the news | February 01, 2015 | Future of War
Is U.S. coalition winning war vs. ISIS?
Peter Bergen, Emily SchneiderWinning Mosul back from ISIS will be much more likely if the there are American air controllers calling in close air support strikes against ISIS p... - in the news | February 01, 2015 | Economic Growth
As Regulators Focus on Culture, Wall Street Struggles to Define It
“The industry is sort of having a culture moment,” said Susan Ochs, founder of the Better Banking Project at the nonpartisan think tank New America... - in the news | February 01, 2015 | Fellows
Christie begins London trade mission, trip includes meeting with prime minister
"I think he's well beyond the point where most voters know exactly what he's up to," said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian and professor of... - in the news | January 31, 2015 | Future of War
ISIS videos often signal hostages’ fate may be sealed
Douglas Ollivant"We know there have been other hostages who have paid ransom and have been evacuated from the country, but it seems like once you come to this leve... - in the news | January 31, 2015 | Fellows
Christie's London trip about 2016 presidential politics, experts say
"I'm sure there's some justification, some connection to the needs of New Jersey, but I think at this point, post setting up the PAC, everything ha...