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In a provocative recent Slate essay, Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of The Net Delusion, argues that the Web, while being “tremendously useful,” is giving too great a voice to those who seek to “undermine ...

Given Google's big privacy policy change this week, many others have been checking out what Google knows about them, including Casey Johnson of Ars Technica and Torie Bosch of Slate. An informal survey at the Slate offices found that Google's ad ...

Stanford's Evgeny Morozov and the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, for example, urged caution, questioning the impact Twitter had (and can have) on revolutions. Was Twitter leading the revolutions, or just reporting them in the West, they asked? ...

Evgeny Morozov, Scholar, New America Foundation, 27. Democracy theorist published The Net Delusion concluding social media can be used for repression more effectively than liberation.

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Marc Goldwein, Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, 26. Runs policy shop at top budget think tank, was Associate Director of Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission.

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Even the preferred tactic of the filmmakers—stripping back the education bureaucracy, and enabling more school choice—has failed to prove effective in minimizing the racial gap. Dana Goldstein documents how the legacy of Michelle Rhee, the movement's ...

A couple of years back, Franklin Foer's excellent bestseller, How Soccer Explains the World, took readers on a global cultural ride into the connections between the world's most widely played (and most boring to watch) sport, ...

This is an important question because, reading this weeks' Bloomberg Businessweek researchers point out, in an article by Charles Kenny, that most job growth actually comes from large companies as does real economic efficiency. ...

I share the skepticism of other libertarians, such as Megan McArdle, about the viability of the various intercity rail projects now under consideration. And it's not hard to find examples of light rail projects that come nowhere near to passing a basic ...

The third broad cap on tax breaks is based on a plan designed by Harvard economist Marty Feldstein, Dan Feenberg at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Maya MacGuineas of the New America Foundation. While they would have capped the value of ...