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Strongbox: New Yorker's Salvo in the 'War Between Data Capture And Privacy' | The Guardian

May 17, 2013

Nicholas Thompson, editor of newyorker.com, hopes that the new anonymous information sharing service will help redress the imbalance in what he calls the "data arms race". "Technology for surveillance and data capture by companies monitoring our ...

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Surveillance After Boston | Truthout

May 17, 2013

Philip Mudd, a former FBI intelligence adviser, cautioned against the consequences of intensive scrutiny of individuals suspected of terrorism at a conference in Washington, DC last month. "The question is: what kind of screening do you want in place ...

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Broadcasters Fear the Music In Aereo Fight | TheStreet.com

May 17, 2013

Benjamin Lennett, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation in Washington, reminds the big media companies that consumers are willing to pay for content provided it's the content they really want. "Ideally, media companies would learn from the ...

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Americans Not Preparing For Years After Work | ABQ Journal (Subscription)

May 17, 2013

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the two ...

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Arrests In New Orleans Parade Shootings Hailed As Progress Against Culture Of ... | Associated Press

May 16, 2013

News of the arrests in a case of violence that brought unwanted national attention to the tourist-dependent city was welcomed by San Francisco freelance journalist Mark Hertsgaard, shot in the leg as he watched the parade. “I love New Orleans and I ...

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Pentagon Sees 'War On Terror' Lasting 20 Years | Financial Times

May 16, 2013

Rosa Brooks, a Pentagon official during the first Obama term and now at Georgetown University, told the hearing: “I've frankly never seen such an accomplished, talented group of people give such muddled and incoherent answers.” Copyright The Financial ...

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Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees '10 To 20′ More Years of War Against Al-Qaida | Wired

May 16, 2013

“I've never seen such an accomplished group of people give such muddled answers,” testified Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon policy official. Spencer Ackerman. Danger Room senior reporter Spencer Ackerman recently won the 2012 National Magazine ...

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America's Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against "Reform" Mandates | Truth-Out

May 16, 2013

Long-time education journalist Dana Goldstein speculated on her blog that Weingarten's moratorium call is proof that education matters that were once considered products of a “coalition” of centrist-minded – although mostly conservative – wonks and ...

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William Mckenzie Commentary: Senate Bill Would Help America To Build A Better ... | Columbus Dispatch

May 16, 2013

Tamar Jacoby, head of Immigration Works USA, commented on this a decade ago. For immigrants to become loyal to the ideals, values and habits that have defined our country, she wrote: “We may need a new definition, or new understanding of assimilation ...

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The Migrant Cash Lifeline | New York Times

May 15, 2013

“It's all about the interconnection between countries,” says Tamar Jacoby, director of ImmigrationWorks USA, an alliance of businesses that support an immigration overhaul. “The outside knows us better than we know them. It's so asymmetrical ...

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