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December 17, 2015
2015's Real Person of the Year? The Populist.
Yascha Mounk explains why calling 2015 the year of Angela Merkel is a bit like calling 2006 the year of the Blackberry.
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CHINA'S MOST RADICAL EXPERIMENT: The One-Child Policy and the Future Beyond It
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January 05, 2016
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Join New America NYC and ChinaFile for a conversation with the New America fellow Mei Fong and other journalists and scholars on China's longest-running social experiment and what it means for a country assessing its impacts and now transitioning beyond it.
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In a conversation with CNN chief political correspondent Jim Sciutto, New America Fellow Mei Fong talks about her book, "One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment," which explores the human impact of the one-child policy, and what implications China's longest-running social experiment will have on its future.
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Books
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The Business of America Is Lobbying
How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became Corporate
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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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2015 Review: Our Year in policy Papers
In 2015, OTI experts wrote multiple policy papers and provided suggested solutions to a diverse selection of issues, spanning encryption, Internet governance, broadband labeling and more. If you missed any, don’t worry, we’ve recapped all ten of OTI’s in-depth policy papers of 2015 below:
February
Best of Assets 2015
Best of Assets 2015 showcases the Asset Building Program's favorite moments over the past year.
Playing the Aid Game
Stephen Burd is a policy analyst with New America who has studied student aid extensively. He and other critics of non-need-based aid say the pressures experienced at Madison are being felt throughout higher education, causing more and more universities to increase their merit aid spending and furthering a seemingly endless ...
Asset Building News Week, December 14 - 18
THE PUSH AND PULL OF WORK FOR FAMILIES (TAX/GOVERNMENT FUNDING DEAL EDITION)
The tax/government funding deal that was announced this week contains major improvements for working families, as it made several tax credits for low-income households permanent. Provisions in the bill, according to Chuck Marr of the Center ...
OTI Deeply Disappointed about Passage of Dangerous Cybersecurity Bill
Hopeful it clears way for more productive debate around cybersecurity
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congress passed cybersecurity information sharing legislation after over five years of debate. While New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) believes that information sharing can be helpful in some instances, we strongly opposed the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (formerly called CISA), and other bills like it, because they threatened privacy and civil liberties and could actually undermine cybersecurity.
2015 year in review
Higher Ed Happy Hour Episode 12
Kevin, Libby, and Andrew debate the best and worst of 2015, including affirmative action, free speech, ratings, and Love, Actually
College Football Top 25, Ranked by Academics
As it did last year, New America compiled the rankings by beginning with each school’s football graduation success rate (GSR). The GSR is an NCAA measure that, unlike the federal graduation rate, doesn’t penalize schools for having players who transfer or leave for the pros–as long as ...
Laura Bornfreund: W.Va. does well in childhood literacy
West Virginia, there’s good news and there’s bad news.
The bad news — and it truly is bad — is that only about 25 percent of the state’s low-income students are reading at grade level by fourth grade.
The good news is that, despite that, West Virginia sits close ...
2015's Real Person of the Year? The Populist.
Yascha Mounk explains why calling 2015 the year of Angela Merkel is a bit like calling 2006 the year of the Blackberry.
Decrypting the cybersecurity gender gap
Gender Disparity in the Cybersecurity and Information Security Industry isn’t Just a Problem for Women
Gender disparity in the cybersecurity industry isn’t just a problem for women.
Before We Pass Judgment on the Supreme Court's Progressive 2015...
...we’d do well to think of the conservative backlash delivered in the court of opinion, and what that might mean for 2016, cautions Madiba Dennie.
51 Civil Society Groups and Security Experts Tell Congress They Oppose Cyber Legislation
Groups denounce tactic of attaching the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 to must-pass omnibus spending bill
Today, 51 civil society organizations and security experts wrote to Congress, strongly opposing the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the bill that was previously named CISA, and denouncing its inclusion in the omnibus spending bill, which is considered a must-pass measure.
Country of Old
Mei Fong examines why China changed its one-child policy—and why it did so too late to help its rapidly graying population.
Double Take: Speaking on Freedom of Speech
Two takes on whether freedom of speech is under attack on university campuses.