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article
| November 20, 2014
When you hear ‘online predator,’ you probably conjure an image of a sexual predator – perhaps a middle-aged man targeting oblivious kids through va...
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article
| November 20, 2014
For a lot of American families today, the dinner table can feel a minefield, haunted by the ghosts of _Leave It To Beavers _past and the present-da...
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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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podcast
| November 20, 2014
New America
How do we win a war that can’t be seen? Anne-Marie Slaughter goes behind the cyber curtain to find out by speaking with ASU Future of War Fellow Sh...
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The Early Childhood Workforce 25 Years After the National Child Care Staffing Study
New America
Despite the significant increase in qualification requirements for the early childhood workforce and the wealth of research on early development th...
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event
| November 17, 2014
100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World
New America
Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras have played critical roles in Ame...
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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| 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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article
| November 06, 2014
Yascha Mounk
We didn’t know what to expect after the heady days of November 1989. What exactly would follow from the fall of the Berlin wall? Would this mean th...
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article
| November 06, 2014
Brandon Tensley
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a different wall has taken its place. But instead of separating East and West, this other “wal...
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article
| November 06, 2014
This pill came with a promise: help extinguish sexism from public life by removing a key roadblock for women. If women could plan when and whether ...