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- in the news | October 15, 2014 | X-Lab
Exclusive: White House organzing cybersecurity task force
“What a shockingly bad idea. You don’t want government dictating good security practice,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the X-Lab, a privacy co... - in the news | October 15, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
Facebook, Apple offer to pay workers to freeze their eggs
Katherine Taylor, lawyer and bioethicist, and journalist Liz Mundy join Andrea Mitchell to discuss Facebook’s and Apple’s announcement that they wi... - in the news | October 15, 2014 | Fellows
Obama visits N.J. today for Democratic fundraiser
Julian Zelizer, a political science professor at Princeton University, said "it's not a great time for the president," but appearances like the one... - in the news | October 15, 2014 | Fellows
Why the 2014 Campaign Season is So Awful
Princeton University Professor Julian Zelizer contends intraparty fights have contributed to this election about nothing. - in the news | October 15, 2014 | Fellows
Get To Know The Finalists For The 2014 National Book Award
Anand Gopal moved to Afghanistan in 2008. As Kim Barker writes in The New York Times, "Gopal learned the language, grew a beard and traveled to rem... - in the news | October 14, 2014 | Future of War
What lures Americans to Syria fight
Of the dozen Americans drawn to fight with ISIS or the al Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front, a profile does appear to be emerging: They are young, typic... - in the news | October 14, 2014 | Fellows
'Young People Have the Most at Stake in This Election': An Interview With Rep. Jared Polis
Ari Ratner"Young people have a lot more at stake in any particular election than more senior Americans. They have their whole future ahead of them. So when w... - in the news | October 13, 2014 | Fellows
The Boardroom and the Bedroom
Ari RatnerHow both dating and finance have been screwed by the Internet. - in the news | October 13, 2014 | International Security
ISIS training video revealed
Douglas OllivantA new video reveals how ISIS fighters are trained. CNN's Brian Todd reports on how the group became a formidable force. - in the news | October 13, 2014 | Fellows
Election 2014: Why voters don't care
While America faces many big issues -- unrest in the Middle East, the effects of climate change, uneven economic growth, growing income inequality,... - in the news | October 12, 2014 | Future of War
Shameful Side of the War on Terror
In “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War,” James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, sets out to... - in the news | October 11, 2014 | Fellows
Appetite, Bill and Barack
“Clinton was the last president we’ve had who loved politics,” Zelizer added. “Bush — and you can see this in his post-presidency — didn’t have a t... - in the news | October 11, 2014 | Fellows
The Strategic News Leak: ‘Integral’ to Washington’s Game
“It’s basically part of the process,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “It’s integral to the Washington cultu... - in the news | October 10, 2014 | Fellows
Christie Faces Need for Tax With N.J. Roads Fund Empty
“The easy answer is you call it anything other than a tax, toll -- whatever other word you can find,” said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University h... - in the news | October 10, 2014 | Fellows
Hillary's rivals pull punches
"They realize that attacking someone who is a clear front-runner and who doesn't take criticism lightly will have huge costs," said Julian Zelizer,... - in the news | October 09, 2014 | Fellows
White House cyber czar: To stay secure, kill the password – but keep data within reach of police
Peter Warren Singer*White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel spoke with The Christian Science Monitor's Passcode about training the next generation of cyb... - in the news | October 09, 2014 | Open Markets
Amazon Must Be Stopped
*As the New America Foundation’s Barry Lynn has described, “Walmart ... has told Coca-Cola what artificial sweetener to use in a diet soda, it has ... - in the news | October 09, 2014 | Future of War
New Chinese Catamaran Spy Ship Learns All About Japanese Water
Peter Warren SingerA Chinese website reported that a JSDMF P-3C maritime patrol aircraft, on September 27, tracked a catamaran ocean hydrographic spy ship 260 kilomet... - in the news | October 09, 2014 | Fellows
Oregon gets early glimpse of presidential hopefuls
“Enthusiasm is high and they are pretty certain that after election day, this will be one visit where they can claim their visits helped,” said Jul... - in the news | October 09, 2014 | Fellows
For Podesta, Does the President Take Precedence?
The sixth year of any presidency will spur a “brain drain,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian and Princeton University professor. “The ... - in the news | October 09, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
As Tech Gender Imbalance Shifts, So Does ‘Attitude,’ Joanne Wilson Says
“They definitely look at their businesses different [from men],” Ms. Wilson said about female entrepreneurs during an interview Monday at the CORE ... - in the news | October 08, 2014 | Fellows
Can an unpopular governor win the presidency?
“The first thing many Americans want to know is how the economy is doing in their state and do the people there like him,” Zelizer said. He added t...