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A Better Approach to Student Loans | The Washington Post

May 5, 2013

Jason Delisle, the New America Foundation's higher-education maven, points out that there's still a lot more Congress and the White House have to fix. They could save billions, for example, by unifying the various loan terms the government offers to ...

Obama Expected to Nominate Telecom Executive Tom Wheeler to Chair FCC | Washington Post

April 30, 2013

“I am skeptical that the former chief lobbyist of the wireless and cable industries will be capable of holding his former clients accountable for their ongoing shortcomings,” said Sascha Meinrath, head of the Open Technology Institute at the New ...

Obama Should Remember Rwanda As He Weighs Action in Syria

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  • Anne-Marie Slaughter,
  • New America Foundation
April 26, 2013 |
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Drones Cause 'Growing Hatred Of America,' Bipartisan Senate Panel Told | The Washington Post

April 23, 2013

Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor who served as a Pentagon policy adviser, said the use of drones would not necessarily be problematic if the country had a clear and legally sound legal framework for targeted killings. “Every ...

Why Women Should Embrace A 'Good Enough' Life | The Washington Post

April 18, 2013

The latest round has been stoked by Sheryl Sandberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Marissa Mayer, who have become symbols and participants in the argument over what women want. Yet, I find it to be a narrow conversation, centered largely on work, ...

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Boston Marathon Bombings: Investigators Sifting Through Images, Debris For Clues | Washington Post

April 16, 2013

The danger in any such investigation is that officials will be so overwhelmed by raw data that important clues may be missed. Philip Mudd, a former senior official at the FBI and the CIA, said that “99.4 percent of what you have is chaff. The wheat ...

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