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Dispatches from the Not-Too-Distant Future of "Journalism"

A new article in The Baffler takes readers inside the world of writing sponsored content.

By Nathan Pippenger

March 28, 2016, 1:33 pm – 4 MIN READ

Setting Priorities on Cybersecurity

By Jason Healey Klara T. Jordan

Spring 2016, No. 40 – 13 MIN READ

HIPAA 2.0: Doctors in the Digital Age

Digital innovation can revolutionize health care—but we need the policies that will allow it to do so. The latest in our series "Our Digital Future."

By Bob Kocher, MD Pat Basu, MD

Winter 2016, No. 39 – 18 MIN READ

Solve Unemployment with Open Data

By Aneesh Chopra

Winter 2016, No. 39 – 5 MIN READ

Net Gains: A Pro-Growth Digital Agenda

A general pessimism over technological progress has crept into the national dialogue. Everywhere one turns there is a new article about how robots are stealing our jobs, how all the gains from innovation go to the rich, or how all...

By Robert Atkinson Doug Brake

Spring 2015, No. 36 – 14 MIN READ

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