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Why Do Chinese Students Know More About Money Than Americans Do? | The Atlantic
New AmericaReid Cramer: There’s a lot we don’t know about what works in financial education...We don’t know how information translates to knowledge, and there... -
Worse Than Michelle Rhee: Teachers And Public Schools Have A Shocking New ...
New America"Barry C. Lynn: In another recent conversation occurring on Salon with Thomas Frank, Barry Lynn of the New America Foundation pointed out that the ... - in the news | June 30, 2014 | Fellows
How to Get Famous
Hao Wu - on his documentary film "The Road To Fame" about the dreams of young acting students at the prestigious acting school in Beijing. - in the news | June 26, 2014 | Fellows
You Should Ditch Work to Go Watch Soccer, Say Productivity Experts
Christine Rosen, a fellow at the New America Foundation who studies our interactions with technology, pointed to the perils of multitasking. - in the news | June 26, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
The Old Boys Club and the Failure of Peacekeeping
Bill Clinton got the photo op handshake but, in the end, failed. So did Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. John Kerry joins a long list of men ... -
You Should Ditch Work to Go Watch Soccer, Say Productivity Experts | New York Magazine
New AmericaChristine Rosen, a fellow at the New America Foundation who studies our interactions with technology, pointed to the perils of multitasking. That i... - in the news | June 26, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
The New Power Wives of Capitol Hill
That’s not unusual. Her days run 18 hours. Having a husband in public life “makes everything a little busier,” she says, but “I do love it.” Still,... - in the news | June 24, 2014 | Fellows
What Afghans Think About Bergdahl, the Taliban, and U.S. Intervention
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A Hachette Job
We could’ve seen this coming. Amazon, embroiled in protracted negotiations over new contract terms with the book publisher Hachette, is using its m... - in the news | June 19, 2014 | Open Markets
What John Roberts Doesn’t Get About Corruption
The irony of the Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions is that they will create a greater push to use bribery prosecutions in close cases to dea... - in the news | June 19, 2014 | Future Tense
The Father Of Net Neutrality Wants to Fix New York Politics
Tim Wu was barely 30 years old when a concept he invented, network neutrality, became a central part of internet policy debates. Now, a decade late... - in the news | June 18, 2014 | International Security
Return of the Drones?
The hiatus was the longest pause in the controversial CIA program since 2006, and the drones' sudden return begs the questions: Why now? And is thi... - in the news | June 17, 2014 | Future Tense
Tim Wu runs for New York State Lieutenant Governor, promising to clamp down on big business
Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who coined the term "Net Neutrality," is running for Lieutenant Governor of New York State on a leftist, reform ... - in the news | June 17, 2014 | Future Tense
Tim Wu Makes A Bid For Net Neutrality
The internet has revolutionized human connectivity, but can be described, most simply, as a public space. Which is why New York state residents oug... - in the news | June 16, 2014 | International Security
Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq
From where did ISIS spring? One of George W. Bush's most toxic legacies is the introduction of al Qaeda into Iraq, which is the ISIS mother ship. - in the news | June 16, 2014 | Fellows
How Should The U.S. Leave Afghanistan?
As New America Fellow Anand Gopal recently wrote, "The categories we take as rigid and unchanging, such as 'terrorist', are in fact remarkably flui... -
How America became uncompetitive and unequal
Lina Khan Sandeep VaheesanSince the early 1980s, executives and financiers have consolidated control over dozens of industries across the U.S. economy. From cable companies ... - in the news | June 11, 2014 | Fellows
Americans Have Never Had So Few Options in Deciding What Company Makes Their Meat
Americans, as it turns out, have actually never had so few options in deciding what company makes their meat. "The US meat industry is more consoli... - in the news | June 11, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
A Father's Day Wish
David GrayBThis Father's Day, I'm thinking about the many ways that dads and moms keep the ever-whirling merry-go-round of life with small kids manageable. I... -
Meet the Man Who's Trying to Predict and Fight Tech's Future Battles | BuzzFeed
Sascha Meinrath is tired of fighting tech's biggest policy battles from behind. As the founder of the Open Technology Institute, an institution tha... - in the news | June 10, 2014 | International Security
Right-wing extremists strike again
The Millers appear to have been motivated by extreme far-right views. The couple left a flag at the scene of the crime with the words "Don't Tread ... - in the news | June 10, 2014 | Fellows
12 Questions About Bowe Bergdahl, Answered
According to Anand Gopal, an expert on the Taliban at the New America Foundation, "of the five released Taliban," he writes, "only 2 have the poten...