Double Default
August 1, 2014Zachary KarabellAugust 1, 2014 Argentina’s financial woes can be partly blamed on one New York hedge fund.URL:...
View ArticleTerrorist armies fight smarter and deadlier than ever | Washington Post
August 1, 2014Douglas OllivantAugust 1, 2014 Military transformations can be hard to detect. They generally occur over decades, sometimes over generations. Soldiers are usually the first to recognize...
View ArticleA Thawing in Iceland | New York Times
August 1, 2014Daniel Kurtz-PhelanAugust 1, 2014 Book review of Ken Adelman's Reagan at Reykjavik.URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/books/review/reagan-at-reykjavik-by-ken-adelman.html?ref=books
View ArticleThe Future Internet World Order | TIME Magazine
August 1, 2014Robert MorgusAugust 1, 2014 Pay attention to the "swing states" that will determine the future of Internet governance, which depends on a reshuffling of the prevailing world order.URL:...
View ArticleThe Emergence of Government Innovation Teams | Brookings Institution
August 1, 2014Hollie Russon-GilmanAugust 1, 2014 A new global currency is emerging. Governments understand that people at home and abroad evaluate them based on how they use technology and innovative...
View ArticleContaining the ISIS Threat | The Epoch Times
August 3, 2014Brian FishmanAugust 3, 2014 To defeat your enemy, you should know your enemy. If the heart of today’s challenge in Iraq is the Islamic State, then we must neutralize it. But, how?URL:...
View ArticleWhy even the toughest sanctions on Russia may not change Putin's behavior | Vox
August 4, 2014Tara MallerAugust 4, 2014 In light of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy and mounting unrest in Ukraine, the European Union and the United States have moved to impose new sanctions on Russia....
View ArticleThe Dangers of High-Tech Profiling, Using Big Data | The New York Times
August 6, 2014Seeta GangadharanAugust 6, 2014 The rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech...
View ArticleCan air power stop ISIS? | CNN
August 8, 2014Douglas OllivantAugust 8, 2014 So what can U.S. airstrikes accomplish? Airpower is incredibly potent when properly used, but nearly useless in the wrong situations. ISIS will present both...
View ArticleTracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old | New York Times
August 9, 2014Sheri FinkAugust 9, 2014 Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in Guéckédou, in...
View ArticleWhy Students Prefer to Learn from a Machine | Slate
August 13, 2014Annie Murphy PaulAugust 13, 2014 Robo-readers aren’t as good as human readers—they’re better.URL:...
View ArticleDespite All The Conspiracy Theories, Common Core Is Actually Just Boring | TPM
August 13, 2014Conor WilliamsAugust 13, 2014 Folks on both sides of the Common Core fight are getting increasingly serious. Common Core supporters are warning each other about the dangers of dismissing...
View ArticleThis Looted QuickTrip Represents St. Louis's Racial Inequality | New Republic
August 14, 2014Christopher LeonardAugust 14, 2014 Who loots a QuickTrip? The Midwestern convenience store sells candy bars, chips and oversized sodas—hardly anything worth stealing. Yet Monday night, a...
View ArticleDouble Default
August 1, 2014Zachary KarabellAugust 1, 2014 Argentina’s financial woes can be partly blamed on one New York hedge fund.URL:...
View ArticleTerrorist armies fight smarter and deadlier than ever | Washington Post
August 1, 2014Douglas OllivantAugust 1, 2014 Military transformations can be hard to detect. They generally occur over decades, sometimes over generations. Soldiers are usually the first to recognize...
View ArticleThe Emergence of Government Innovation Teams | Brookings Institution
August 1, 2014Hollie Russon-GilmanAugust 1, 2014 A new global currency is emerging. Governments understand that people at home and abroad evaluate them based on how they use technology and innovative...
View ArticleThe Missed 3 Million: Reducing the Threat of Tuberculosis Worldwide |...
August 1, 2014Susan BlumenthalAugust 1, 2014 Next week, over 40 African heads of state will convene in Washington, D.C. for the first-ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. One important issue that requires...
View ArticleRighting the GOP (Book Review) | Boston Review
August 1, 2014Mark SchmittAugust 1, 2014 Our political era, as most of us understand it, starts in 1980. The election of Ronald Reagan is the opening shot, the first of the three massive conservative...
View ArticleDouble Default
August 1, 2014Zachary KarabellAugust 1, 2014 Argentina’s financial woes can be partly blamed on one New York hedge fund.URL:...
View ArticleThe Missed 3 Million: Reducing the Threat of Tuberculosis Worldwide |...
August 1, 2014Susan BlumenthalAugust 1, 2014 Next week, over 40 African heads of state will convene in Washington, D.C. for the first-ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. One important issue that requires...
View Article
