OTI Disappointed Congress Passed Short-Term 702 Reauthorization Instead of Passing Real Reform
Congress passes short-tern reauthorization after House Leadership’s fails to force the passage of the controversial Section 702 expansion.
Straight Back to Compton
Why we should move back to our urban neighborhoods
Why (Cybersecurity) Change Is So Hard
We create different forms of technology in order to solve a problems and make our lives easier, so why do we resist technological changes?
End of the Year Digital Steward Update: Viable Networks Workshops
OTI Alarmed House is Expected to Vote on Section 702 Surveillance Expansion and Reauthorization
The bill would reauthorize Section 702 of FISA for four years without making any meaningful reforms.
OTI Welcomes Cancellation of Vote on Dangerous Bill to Expand and Reauthorize Section 702 Surveillance
House leadership abandoned its attempt to hold a vote this week on the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017.
Vote NO on Section 702 Surveillance Expansion and Reauthorization
The modifications to this bill are wholly insufficient to address the many concerns it raises.
Ask Not What You Can Do for Your Community, Ask What Your Community Can Do for You
Addressing the gender disparities Non-Resident Indian millennials working abroad face when contemplating returning to India.
OTI Opposes Rep. Blackburn’s “Dead on Arrival” Net Neutrality Bill
Rather than restoring online protections, this net neutrality legislation is riddled with loopholes for large companies.
We Got a Home in This Rock
Why Toni Morrison matters to how we talk about polarization
2017: A Close Reading
This edition of the Weekly highlights material New America staffers have read in 2017 to help them fill up the tank as they head into 2018.
Embrace Fear—or at Least a Better Understanding of It
If you gain a better understanding of what's making you scared, in 2018, you'll start to party like it was 1999.
Finding Inspiration in the Messy Muck of Protest
A book about the female codebreakers of World War II shows the radical resilience of women pushing back against a sexist society.
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Burrows into Our Collective Imagination
New writing from Coates surfaces conversations around race that America has long avoided.