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October 08, 2015
The City That Never Sleeps Is Waking up to Its Pay Problems
Is New York--and the rest of America--failing the the Fair Labor Standards Act? Tyler S. Bugg explores.
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NONSENSE: THE POWER OF NOT KNOWING
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October 13, 2015
06:20 PM– 08:15 PM
Tuesday October 13, 2015
06:20 PM – 08:15 PM
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Join us for the launch of Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing with a conversation between Jamie Holmes and Maria Konnikova on the downside of having the answer to every question at our fingertips.
More about the eventBREAKING NEWS: DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO IN STORYTELLING
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October 14, 2015
06:30 PM– 08:30 PM
Wednesday October 14, 2015
06:30 PM – 08:30 PM
[u'156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor', u'New York, NY 10010']
Whether it's legacy or digital media, the reality remains: the state of journalism has reached a critical point of transition and transformation. Much is at stake.
More about the eventCybersecurity Initiative Business-Policy Roundtable #2
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October 20, 2015
12:00 PM– 02:00 PM
Tuesday October 20, 2015
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New America's Cybersecurity Team works with its networks and other partners to organize and support events that promote the Initiative's objectives. The Business-Policy Roundtable is a monthly convening of top cybersecurity policy experts and business leaders.
The New America Cyber Business-Policy Roundtable is happy to welcome Managing Director ...
More about the eventRUNAWAY CAPITALISM
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October 21, 2015
06:30 PM– 08:15 PM
Wednesday October 21, 2015
06:30 PM – 08:15 PM
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Does the economic impact of the sharing economy live up to its hype? Join New America NYC for a conversation on the "Uber economy" and how to sustain economic power in the hands of American workers.
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Books
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Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech
Meeting people where they are
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unfinished business
Women, Men, Work, Family
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Book: DRONES AND AERIAL OBSERVATION
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT:A PRIMER
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Book: DRONES AND AERIAL OBSERVATION
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT:A PRIMER
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Ghost Fleet
A Novel of the Next World War
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Overwhelmed
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
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Everything Conceivable
HOW THE SCIENCE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IS CHANGING OUR WORLD
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Michelle
A Biography by Liza Mundy
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The Powerhouse
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
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The Great Race
The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
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The Test
Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be
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@War
The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
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The Teacher Wars
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
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Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy
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No Good Men Among the Living
America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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The Assets Perspective
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
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The Bright Continent
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
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Overwhelmed
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are
Voices from the Internet Underground
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The Meat Racket
The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
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The Up Side of Down
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
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The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
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Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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The Smartest Kids in the World
And How They Got That Way
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The Pioneer Detectives
Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
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To Save Everything, Click Here
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
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Beautiful Souls
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
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Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century
Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors
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On Internet Freedom
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Talibanistan
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The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
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The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
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Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
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Land of Promise
An Economic History of the United States
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The Richer Sex
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
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The Escape Artists
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Consent of the Networked
The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
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Manana Forever?
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
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Pakistan: A Hard Country
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Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
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Fighting for Darfur
Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
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Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
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The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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The Longest War
The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda
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The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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Audience Evolution
New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences
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The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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California Crackup
How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
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The Icarus Syndrome
A History of American Hubris
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Beyond the Echo Chamber
How a Networked Progressive media Can Reshape American Politics
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Cornered
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
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The Evolution of God
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The Hawk and the Dove
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
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The House at the End of the Road
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
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To Live or to Perish Forever
Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
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The Next Progressive Era
A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity
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A Tolerable Anarchy
Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
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Grand New Party
How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
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The Bin Ladens
An Arabian Family In the American Century
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The Second World
Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
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The True Patriot
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Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
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Overtreated
Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
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Best Care Anywhere
Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours
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Oil on the Brain
Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
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Ethical Realism
A Vision for America’s Role in the World
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The Osama bin Laden I Know
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
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End of the Line
The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
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Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick
How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power
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OTI Comments Call for Technical Standard for SEt Top Boxes
Last week, OTI filed comments with the Consumer Video Choice Coalition regarding set top box reform. In the comments, the Coalition asked the FCC to create a technical standard that would foster a competitive market for set top boxes.
Hands Up, Don't Film: Body Worn Cameras and Protests
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather in front of the Capitol to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. For the 2015 rally, the organizers have recast their mission in the language of the Black Lives Matter movement, renamed it “Justice or Else,” and updated the call of solidarity to an array of underrepresented groups. In advance of the event, police-protester tensions have already been raised. The DC Metro Police Department has issued traffic advisories and arranged for special police monitoring teams to be present on the Mall. But will police officers present this weekend be wearing body cameras? And if they do, will civil rights and civil liberties be protected or put at risk?
Open Technology Institute, Privacy Advocates Urge Wireless Industry to Protect Personal Data of Low-income Americans
Yesterday, New America’s Open Technology Institute (“OTI”) and 11 other consumer advocacy groups (“privacy advocates”) filed an Opposition to a petition filed in August by CTIA - The Wireless Association, in which wireless carriers asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its authority to safeguard the sensitive information of Lifeline program applicants.
Education Reforms Are Here to Stay
"I don't think you could have achieved those reforms without people who fell on their swords and created opportunity for folks like Henderson to come in and really rebuild a lot of the bridges that have been burned," says Melissa Tooley, a senior education policy analyst at New America ...
Asset Building News Week, October 5 - October 9
This week's topics include retirement, TANF reform, and child care costs.
End of cap would put UW-Madison on path of other flagships
Out-of-state and international students now make up at least 40% of the freshman class at flagship universities in 18 states — up from 10 states in 2000, according to Stephen Burd, a senior policy analyst with New America's Education Policy Program who questions whether public universities are becoming bastions of ...
If Congress Really Cares About Cybersecurity...
There are people who want to test the security of our online information. And Congress has passed laws that discourage them. Ross Schulman explains which laws need to be fixed so that these digital locksmiths can ply their trade.
Hybrid online/on-campus master's degree promises to 'democratize' MIT
“Here’s what will truly change higher education: online degrees that are seen as official,” the New America Foundation’s Kevin Carey challenged digital learning providers this spring in The New York Times, highlighting the limited usefulness of classes without formal certifications.