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Did You Make Your Foreclosure Quota?
June 18, 2013 - 11:00am
The Sidebar: Insecure
June 18, 2013 - 10:46am
Quick Takes on Syria
June 17, 2013 - 4:57pm
The Real Reason Why Metadata Collecting is Dangerous
June 17, 2013 - 4:54pm

Latest Policy Papers

NEXT SOCIAL CONTRACT: The Next Social Contract: An American Agenda for Reform
June 10 : The American social contract is in crisis. Even before the Great Recession exposed its inadequacy, it was clear that...
EDUCATION: Promoting Data in the Classroom
June 04 : This report explores the use of student achievement data to improve classroom instruction. The paper, Promoting Data in...
EARLY EDUCATION: An Ocean of Unknowns
May 15 : What is the best way to use data to measure teacher impact on student learning? States and school districts are...
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Our Expired Contract

America's social contract is ripe for disruption. That's according to Michael Lind, who released a paper this week illustrating how we can modernize our decades-old social policies for the 21st Century. In this video, Lind tells us how to craft a Social Contract 2.0.

Vision 2020 Highlights

At New America's annual conference, thought leaders across many disciplines gathered to examine one question: What will our world look like in 2020, and what collective challenges must we confront before then?

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Books from New America

Though The New Digital Age, written by New America Board Chairman Eric Schmidt and Director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen, is packed with 1984-esque futuristic scenarios, its purpose is to change today’s technology conversation by considering the coming intersections of the digital and the diplomatic, and "building a bridge" between leaders in both technology and foreign policy fields. The New York Times calls it “prescient and provocative.”

The Sidebar Weekly Podcast

itunesThe Sidebar:   Shane Harris highlights the worst of the NSA leaks; Tamar Jacoby explains why she's hopeful for Senate passage of immigration reform.