Egypt in Transition
As Egypt’s revolutionary process derails, a myriad of political actors are struggling to form a new consensus
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The Power Surge
For decades, politicians have been pledging to make America energy independent, and for decades, they have failed.
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12:15PM – 1:30PM EDT
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German Minister of the Interior visits Open Technology Institute
On April 30, 2013, Germany’s equivalent of the U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security, the Minister of the Interior, Hans-Peter Friedrich,
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1:30PM – 4PM EDT
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Jackpot: Using Lotteries to Promote Personal Savings
Americans often view saving as a type of self-deprivation, the financial equivalent of eating your vegetables. What if the broccoli came
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11AM – 12:30PM EDT
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Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda
On September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to
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1PM – 2:30PM EDT
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
In the near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale interventions in politics, culture,
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9AM – 10AM EDT
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The New (Suburban) Homeless: How Foreclosures and the Great Recession Have Impacted American Families
In the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession has turned formerly financially stable families into the new homeless—
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12:15PM – 1:30PM EDT
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Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
** Please note that this event has been rescheduled from March 6 to March 19.**
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12:15PM – 1:30PM EDT
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740 15th St NW #900, Washington, D.C. 20005
Talking to Terrorists
Since September 11, we have struggled to determine why individuals become radicalized by certain ideas and eventually engage in terrorism
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12:15PM – 1:45PM EDT
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Foreign Policy for the Information Age
From Wikileaks to the aftermath of the Middle East and North Africa uprisings, the thorny ramifications of ubiquitous global information
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1PM – 2:30PM EDT
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