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- in the news | January 27, 2015 | Future Tense
Good News: Replicas of 16th-Century Sculptures Are Not Off-Limits for 3-D Printers
Despite our modern aversion to “copying,” the act of reproducing sculpture is nothing new. Museums have been created high-quality casts of their sc... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | Open Technology Institute
AWS-3 Auction Ends; Wheeler Says Incentive Auction Will Start Next Year as Planned
“The U.S. Government sucking $45 billion in capital out of the wireless industry is a tragedy, not a victory,” said Michael Calabrese, director of ... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | Open Technology Institute
AT&T, Verizon Fight to Exclude Mobile From Obama’s Web Rules
In 2010, “the iPhone was relatively new and the vast majority of Internet usage was still on wireline networks,” Calabrese said in an interview. “N... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | International Security
Obama Wraps Up India Visit; Banned Pakistani Militant Leader Gives Speech; USAID Suspends Major Contractor for Afghanistan
U.S. President Barack Obama urged Indians to address climate change, overcome religious divisions, and promote gender equality, while addressing an... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | Future Tense
How Technology Is Changing the Family Tree: A Future Tense Event Recap
At a Future Tense event in New York City last week, Jacobs, along with the author Maud Newton; Chris Whitten, the CEO of the collaborative family h... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | International Security
Charlie Hebdo’s Rights and Wrongs
The easiest way to compound the tragedy in Paris would be to use the deaths of Charlie Hebdo’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, and 11 others to fan t... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | Education Policy
Here's What You Need to Know About the Financial Aid Program Obama Quietly Killed
"We knew the year-round Pell Grant program had a reputation of being way more expensive than everyone had thought," Miller says, "but what we reall... - in the news | January 26, 2015 | Open Technology Institute
12 Numbers That Show America's Internet Has An Equality Problem
New America*$51 -- The average monthly price of broadband service in 2014, according to the nonprofit New America Foundation. * - in the news | January 26, 2015 | Future of War
Tom plays Phoenix
I'll be speaking next week in Phoenix. Come on down. Here are the details: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7 p.m. The location is First Amendment Foru... - in the news | January 26, 2015 | Fellows
How Obama will be on the ballot in 2016
President Obama needs to keep his eyes on 2016. Realistically, this is the best way that he can bolster his own legacy and that of his party -- hel... - in the news | January 26, 2015
Why we need a North American Passport
A North American passport would reflect the unique relationship and shared interests among our nations. In the face of growing competition from ris... - in the news | January 25, 2015 | Fellows
LBJ, Congress and the age of change
"The Great Society changed America not simply beause the parties changed," Zelizer says. "Tthose policies remain enduring and remain an integral pa... - in the news | January 25, 2015 | International Security
Why Obama is going to visit Saudi King
Despite Saudi oil policies that benefit American economic interests, the Saudi-American alliance--which was more like a melding of minds under the ... - in the news | January 25, 2015 | International Security
ISI should stop supporting attacks on Indian targets in Afghanistan: Professor Anatol Lieven
Anatol LievenAnatol Lieven, professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar, has written extensively on Islamist terrorism and Pakistan.... - in the news | January 23, 2015 | Future of War
China Gets Three Warships in One Day
Peter Warren SingerNot since World War II has a single shipyard launched multiple large warships in a single day. But Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, one of Chi... - in the news | January 23, 2015 | Fellows
Re-Assessing LBJ
Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer is the author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress and the Battle for the Great Soc... - in the news | January 23, 2015 | Fellows
Keystone XL Pipeline May Force Republicans to Embrace Climate Change
Still, the Senate results this week mark some progress in advancing the GOP's acceptance of the climate science, said Julian Zelizer, a history pro... - in the news | January 23, 2015 | Future of War
In 2015, the 'Future' Approaches
Peter Warren SingerFlying cars and hovercrafts are possible, though concept cars designed in recent years for limited flight are “not that economical or realistic in ... - in the news | January 22, 2015 | International Security
Pakistan not on the brink but on a rethink
Anatol LievenAnatol Lieven, author of "Pakistan: A Hard Country", said Pakistan now has a new attitude towards domestic militancy but fear of India has not gone... - in the news | January 22, 2015 | International Security
Davos 2015: world leaders 'failing on social cohesion'
“I keep wondering, are we in 2045 still going to have the winners of world war two running the world with vetoes on the security council? Really? B... - in the news | January 22, 2015 | Education Policy
Bizarro World: I Heart Standardized Tests...And Republicans Don't?
Conor P. WilliamsWe need data to guide our instructional choices and our policymaking, even if those data are imperfect. Data from those NCLB-mandated assessments i... - in the news | January 22, 2015 | International Security
Anne-Marie Slaughter: U.S. Absence In Paris Confirms Unfortunate Obama Narrative
"[U.S.] leadership would have been better advised to be front and center," Slaughter added. "I thought that was not only a moment missed, but it co...