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But there is a new emphasis on making such systems easier to use and bringing them to a wider audience, says Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation. "We're trying to move them out of the geekosphere ...

But technology is actually doing far more to bolster authoritarian regimes than to overturn them, writes Evgeny Morozov in this sharp reality check on the media-fueled notion that information is making everybody free. Mr. Morozov, a visiting scholar at ...

In 1938, a biological expedition under Richard Archbold arrived in western New Guinea to survey the area by air. On June 23, after hours of flying over near-impenetrable jungle, Archbold's plane passed over the Grand Valley of the Baliem River. The valley was occupied by 50,000 Papuans, until that point unknown to—and unknowing of—the outside world. After six weeks, patrols from the Archbold expedition finally met with the inhabitants. That was the last substantial first contact ...

There was much to-do last month over the Obama administration's fiscal-2012 budget proposals for higher education. Specifically, many education observers took issue with the administration's suggestion to fiscally shore up the Pell Grant program by ending year-round Pell Grants for students attending summer school, as well as ending the "in-school interest subsidy" that prevents some low-income graduate students' loans from accruing interest until they have left school.

... In doing so, it helps sets the record straight on "the most misused, misunderstood, and misleading numbers that appear every year in the federal education budget," said Jason Delisle of the New America Foundation, ...

But a study by the New America Foundation, released on Thursday, concludes that several states violated the law by supplanting state dollars with federal ...

In 1930, a man named Daniel Lord wrote a Production Code for American motion pictures. He included specific prohibitions: "Dances suggesting indecent passions," he wrote, "are forbidden." But Lord's general point was to ensure that American films didn't glorify that which was morally wrong and that they always had a happy ending. Movies would be a source of uplift. "No picture shall be produced," he wrote, "that will lower the moral standards of those who see it."

As the for-profit higher-education industry fights efforts by the Obama administration and Congress to increase federal oversight of its schools, the industry's lobbyists have a powerful weapon: the world-renowned Washington Post.

The occasion for both books, as well as for the City University of New York journalism and political-science professor Peter Beinart's recent The Icarus ...

But Steve Burd, who published the memo on the Higher Ed Watch blog of the New America Foundation, says the report shows only that enforcement was lax under the Bush administration. (Mr. Burd is a former reporter for The Chronicle.)