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Penn State Said To Be Interested in Boise State's Petersen | The Philadelphia Inquirer

December 8, 2011

Relatively young, consistently successful, clean-cut, and taint-free, Petersen, 47, also heads a program whose graduation rate, according to an analysis by the New America Foundation, is second only to Penn State's. Based on the number of players who ...

Probing Market Mysteries | The Philadelphia Inquirer

November 13, 2011

Robb Topolski wanted to know why his Internet connection wasn't working right. Bernice Keebler wanted to trace mystery charges on her Verizon bill. Restaurant diners and home cooks want to know whether the fish they're eating is the kind they think ...

Twitter and Other Services Create Cracks in Gadhafi's Media Fortress | The Philadelphia Inquirer

February 28, 2011

"Libya has nothing like Egypt's generation of young, radical, educated, Web-savvy, frustrated youth," said Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam. Gadhafi, she said, has made sure ...

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Discovering Muslims, Christians of All Kinds | The Philadelphia Inquirer

September 14, 2010

Eliza Griswold - with a poet's eye for the telling, homely image - is tracing the genesis of her new book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault ...

Phillydeals: Making the Case for an Afghan Withdrawal | The Philadelphia Inquirer

September 12, 2010

He has worked with allies such as Steve Clemons of the nonprofit New America Foundation, whose board is headed by Google chief executive officer Eric ...

Congress May Tweak Some College-Savings-Plan Rules | The Philadelphia Inquirer

June 2, 2010

Jacquelyn T. Williams, director of the college savings initiative at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit and nonpartisan public policy organization, said that simply having money stashed away for college can make a difference in whether or not a child matriculates in post-secondary education. At a House discussion in mid-May, she said children with college funds are four times more likely to go to college. ...

Once-Blocked User Urges Net Neutrality | The Philadelphia Inquirer

April 11, 2010

If you want the Internet to stay as free and open and fascinating as it seems today, you may want to stop surfing for a moment. Take the time to listen to one of those geeks, Robb Topolski, a former Intel network products engineer, who was blocked by Comcast Corp. from using BitTorrent and other file-sharing sites. ...

Pay-TV Groups Ask FCC To Update Blackout Rules | Philadelphia Inquirer

March 11, 2010

Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation, nonprofit advocacy groups, also signed the FCC petition. Absent from the coalition were the National Cable ...

Meet The New-Generation Tivo Service ... But You'll Need A New-Generation Box, Too | Philadelphia inquirer

March 3, 2010

Trial ballooned in a recent speech before the New America Foundation, and sure to be included in the broadband plan that the FCC will present to Congress on ...

Policy- makers Are All in Our Minds

  • By
  • Jamie Holmes,
  • New America Foundation
December 7, 2009 |

A breakthrough field that combines psychology and economics, behavioral economics has achieved a level of influence over U.S. policy that hardly any of its practitioners could have imagined only a few years ago.

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