The Age of Responsibility
In the postwar years, if people were hungry, it was the state’s job to feed them. Today, that idea of welfare is barely recognizable.
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Interface
140 W 30th Street, New York, NY 10001
What’s the Right Thing to Do for Every Child to Succeed?
ESSA both strengthens and expands opportunities for early learning, birth through third grade
A-Pell-and-a-Half Is Enough
Capping the year-round Pell Grant at 150 percent of his annual maximum would protect students and taxpayers while preventing abuses.
Campus Free Speech and the continuing adventures of Betsy DeVos
Kevin, Libby, and special guest Steve Teles dig into if, when, or how it’s okay to stop someone from speaking on a college campus.
OTI Joins Amicus Letter Urging Changes to NYPD Body-Worn Cameras Pilot Project
To be an effective remedy to the NYPD’s constitutional abuses, the body-worn camera policies must be changed in at least four key ways.
Chipping Away at Privacy?
Have Internet Giants Taken Over Creative Culture?
A closer look at the monopolies that control the economic success of the journalism, music, video, and book industries.
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New America
740 15th St NW #900, Washington, D.C. 20005
In Aftermath of Rape Scandal, Baylor Hires Its First Female President
As it struggles to move past a scandal over its handling of sexual assault, Baylor University has hired its first female president.
Introduction: Changing the Culture
Anne-Marie Slaughter invites us to think about how me might shift norms that exploit the violence of humans against other humans.
Sarah McBride: ‘Even If We No Longer Have a Friend in the White House, We Can Still Open Hearts and Change Minds’
While 2016 was a banner year for transgender visibility, the landscape is rapidly changing—and not always for the better.