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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.
Thursday January 07, 2016
12:15 PM – 01:45 PM
[u'740 15th Street NW, Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']
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.
More about the eventMonday January 11, 2016
03:00 PM – 04:45 PM
[u'New America', u'740 15th Street NW', u'Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']
On January 22, 2009, just days after becoming president, Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13492, ordering the closure of the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Now in the last year of his presidency, 107 detainees remain. January 11th marks the 14th anniversary of the prison’s creation. New America is pleased to welcome Dr. Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days, Thomas B. Wilner, a lawyer with Shearman & Sterling LLP, who was the Counsel of Record to Guantanamo detainees in the two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that established their right to habeas corpus and in the case that established their right to counsel and Andy Worthington, a journalist and the author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, for a discussion about what can or can’t be done in the next year, and whether President Obama’s promise will ever be fulfilled.
More about the eventTuesday January 12, 2016
12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
[u'New America', u'740 15th Street NW', u'Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']
Wi-Fi already carries more than 60% of all mobile device data traffic, making wireless Internet access far more available, fast and affordable. But as unlicensed bands grow more congested and users demand more high-bandwidth apps, such as video chat and streaming, opening large tracts of unlicensed spectrum 5.9 GHz is key to creating the “wider pipe” required for gigabit Wi-Fi networks.Keynoting this event, a bipartisan duo of FCC Commissioners – Jessica Rosenworcel and Michael O’Rielly – will talk about the importance and prospects of sharing the band. High-tech equipment companies Qualcomm and Cisco will describe their competing proposals. And New America’s Open Technology Institute will release and describe a major report that recommends a ‘win-win’ resolution.
More about the eventTuesday January 12, 2016
06:30 PM – 08:15 PM
[u'156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor', u'New York, NY 10010']
Join or a conversation with Katherine Zoepf, along with Pakistani journalist Kiran Nazish, on the dual transformations of women's lives and of Arab society throughout the Middle East region.
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How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became Corporate
Meeting people where they are
Women, Men, Work, Family
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT:A PRIMER
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT:A PRIMER
A Novel of the Next World War
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
HOW THE SCIENCE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IS CHANGING OUR WORLD
A Biography by Liza Mundy
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be
The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Voices from the Internet Underground
The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
What Everyone Needs to Know
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
And How They Got That Way
Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
America After Meritocracy
ExxonMobil and American Power
An Economic History of the United States
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
A History of American Hubris
How a Networked Progressive media Can Reshape American Politics
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity
Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
An Arabian Family In the American Century
Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours
Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
A Vision for America’s Role in the World
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power
New America CA invests in California-based fellows who are working on the most innovative approaches to solving public problems. Whether leading cutting edge organizations, developing technology to be applied in new ways, championing new ideas, or pioneering methods of using media to engage the public, their dynamism is compelling.
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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 showcases the Asset Building Program's favorite moments over the past year.
What do gender roles mean for business? What effect does the increasing visibility of women on boards have on women in the earlier stages of their careers? Do women leaders lead differently?
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 ...
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.
Kevin, Libby, and Andrew debate the best and worst of 2015, including affirmative action, free speech, ratings, and Love, Actually
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 ...
Yascha Mounk explains why calling 2015 the year of Angela Merkel is a bit like calling 2006 the year of the Blackberry.
