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'Who Owns the Future?' by Jaron Lanier

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  • Parag Khanna,
  • New America Foundation
May 12, 2013 |
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Boston Bomb Suspect's Citizenship Bid Is Part Of Widening Probe | San Francisco Chronicle

April 22, 2013

The two brothers displayed an amateurish modus operandi, failing to disguise themselves from cameras, suggesting they were motivated by feelings of social alienation as immigrants in the U.S., said Philip Mudd, a former CIA deputy director in the ...

'Lean In,' By Sheryl Sandberg

  • By
  • Liza Mundy,
  • New America Foundation
March 8, 2013 |

So I was sitting at my desk with a copy of Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" at my elbow, procrastinating for a tiny minute before writing this review. I was leaning back, I admit, by checking Facebook. Glancing at the right side of the page, where Facebook inserts those tiny ads for things like wrinkle elimination and the Dr. Oz diet, I saw ... Sheryl Sandberg! "Are you leaning in?" she wanted to know, or her ad likeness did. Ack! No, I am not! Sorry!

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Seo: Syrian Authority's Cut Off Of The Internet Raises Fears Of A Possible ... | San Francisco Chronicle

December 1, 2012

However, it has been suggested by Sascha Meinrath, director of the Internet in a Suitcase project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, that having “a single Internet exchange point in Damascus that's been shutdown, as much the ...

White House Opens Door to Chamber for Fiscal Talks | San Francisco Chronicle

November 27, 2012

Maya MacGuineas, a spokeswoman for Fix the Debt, said her group is designed to expire after the debt problem is solved, while the chamber and others will endure. Fix the Debt is an offshoot of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that backs deficit reduction and of which MacGuineas is president ...

Republicans Signal Openness To Deficit Deal Without Budging | San Francisco Chronicle

November 8, 2012

“We really risk jeopardizing where we stand in the global economy by showing we can't govern,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan Washington group that backs deficit reduction. MacGuineas's ...

'Escape Fire': Diagnosing Health Care Ills | San Francisco Chronicle

October 4, 2012

Medical reporter Shannon Brownlee says that tens of thousands of Medicare recipients die each year from unneeded treatments. And Oregon's Dr. Erin Martin offers testimony from the front lines as she struggles with having less and less time to spend ...

'Escape Fire': Diagnosing Health Care Ills | San Francisco Chronicle

October 4, 2012

Medical reporter Shannon Brownlee says that tens of thousands of Medicare recipients die each year from unneeded treatments. And Oregon's Dr. Erin Martin offers testimony from the front lines as she struggles with having less and less time to spend ...

Romney Or Obama Win Means No Escape From Fiscal Crisis Of Debt | San Francisco Chronicle

September 28, 2012

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, based in Washington, says there's growing support on Capitol Hill for tackling the debt in a constructive manner. She says she's hopeful that a “grand bargain” to put the ...

Efforts to Preserve Online Freedom Reveal Threats | San Francisco Chronicle

July 7, 2012

"It doesn't automatically mean that governments around the world will start doing the right thing at all times," said Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of "Consent of the Networked." "But it's a very useful tool for citizens around the world tfo say to their government, 'You signed onto this, you have to live up to it.' " 

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