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article
| October 09, 2014
Nanette Fondas
Work-life balance is having a moment, but for the wrong reasons. Although scholars have been researching work-life-fit for over 50 years, the 2008 ...
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From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
New America
The pursuit of a strong, accountable government is seen as a driver of history in Dr. Francis Fukuyama’s new book, Political Order and Political De...
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article
| October 02, 2014
Neal Stephenson
For a big part of my life, I assumed that the scarce resource—the thing that was preventing me from getting to Mars, or having my own personal jetp...
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The flood of responses was “unprecedented.” Since the early 20th century, agencies like the Federal Communications Commission have asked the public...
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article
| October 02, 2014
New America
Norway is world famous for its fjords and its Viking history, but it’s also well-known as a global beacon for gender equality. On September 24 at a...
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article
| October 02, 2014
New America Fellow Mei Fong explains what you need to know about Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, and why the violent turn was so unexpected. More:...
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article
| October 02, 2014
Of all those in Russia’s “near abroad,” who nervously look over their shoulders at Ukraine and wonder who is next, there is one individual with mor...
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article
| October 02, 2014
My elementary school had a separate classroom for students who were non-native speakers of English. As far as my friends and I were concerned, it w...
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podcast
| October 02, 2014
New America
Promoting diversity in education was one the biggest and most widely practiced ideas of the 20th century. But as Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Pr...
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“Where are all the women?” That was the question Vivek Wadhwa’s wife whispered to him at the 2009 “Crunchies Awards” – the tech industry’s Oscars. ...
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article
| September 26, 2014
On Tuesday, President Obama made what was, for many, a surprising announcement. Not only had the United States conducted the first air strikes on t...
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article
| September 26, 2014
A U.S.-led coalition once again wades into his neighborhood to rid it of terrorism, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the U.S. and other W...
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article
| September 26, 2014
At Sunday’s People’s Climate March, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to cut emissions in the city to 80 percent of 2005 levels by 2050. T...
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article
| September 26, 2014
Claude S. Fischer
Over the course of the last 15 years or so, there’s been an explosion in the number of charter schools around the country. According to the latest ...
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article
| September 26, 2014
Australians like to think of themselves as green. Their island country boasts some 3 million square miles of breathtaking landscape. They were an e...
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If you want to learn how the economy works, what do you study? Most people would respond with “economics.” But today, there is a growing concern th...
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article
| September 26, 2014
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Sometimes, vague can be misleading—and harmful. For years colleges have doled out financial aid to disadvantaged students based primarily on “diver...
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podcast
| September 25, 2014
New America
Conventional wisdom and media narratives suggest that visible populist movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street emerged in response to t...
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A Collaboration with Washington Monthly Magazine
New America
One of the best ways to boost the number of college graduates in America is to steer prospective students away from “dropout factories”—that is, co...
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A Look at One of South Asia's Largest Terrorist Organizations
New America
Although they are some of the world’s foremost terrorist groups, not much is widely known about Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), one of the largest terrorist...
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article
| September 18, 2014
Last week, when President Obama announced his intention to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS, he gave a clear rationale: leaders of the radical...