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September 4, 2015

Cyber Week in Review: September 4, 2015

Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: The Washington Post and Reuters reported that the Obama administration is considering levelin…

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February 1, 2017

Privacy
China’s Big Data Push Runs Into Orwell and Red Tape

Lorand Laskai is a research associate in Asia studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him @lorandlaskai.  Like most policymakers around the world, the leadership of the C…

March 25, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Going to End Well?

A French fighter jet prepares to land at its military air base on the island of Corsica where France runs its military operation against Libya. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold…

A French fighter jet prepares to land at the military air base on the island of Corsica where France runs its military operation against Libya. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/courtsey Reuters)

June 23, 2011

Defense and Security
House Libya Vote Update

Speaker Boehner with members of the House Republican Caucus. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) House Republican leaders have scrapped the concurrent resolution I discussed yesterday that would have direc…

Speaker Boehner with members of the House Republican Caucus. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters)

November 6, 2013

Trade
What's Behind Obama’s Push to Attract Foreign Businesses?

Last week the Obama administration hosted the first-ever national summit showcasing the United States as an attractive place to do business, part of a newish initiative called SelectUSA. The event wa…

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the SelectUSA 2013 Investment Summit in Washington

June 26, 2012

Education
Foreign Languages and U.S. Economic Competitiveness

Americans are lousy at learning foreign languages. We all know the historical reasons – the United States was long a big, largely monolingual country with a fairly self-sufficient economy. U.S. econo…

Teacher Kennis Wong points to Chinese characters on a board at Broadway Elementary School in Los Angeles, California (Lucy Nicholson/Courtesy Reuters).