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The Conversation
NSA director Keith Alexander has been forced to defend his agency’s operations after a series of revelations, exposing mass data gathering and surveillance programs on US citizens and world leaders. Lecturer...
The budget shenanigans show Washington is highly dysfunctional
Not much: the post-industrial city should be left to create its own future from the ashes
Is technology sapping our attention span and ruining our concentration?
The budget-cutting, small-government inter-war president has emerged as a role model for today’s conservative Republicans
With competition descending on print media, consumers will merely weed out poor quality media and pay for what they value
The Guardian
Traditional journalists now have to contend with a host of web-based rivals, but research associate Mary Kissel, who will appear at the Centre's Public Knowledge Forum, argues the competition will do them good...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia and the US both need a change of political culture to attract the best female talent, says director of the Centre's new Women in Leadership project Melissa Grah-McIntosh.
Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” is sweeping across the media landscape
A timely realist repudiation of neo-conservatives and liberal hawks
The Washington Post
Can the labour movement broaden its scope of action? The University of Wisconsin-Madison's John S. Ahlquist, University of Washington PhD candidate Amanda B. Clayton, and visiting professor Margaret Levi explore...
How two media accounts of the intrusive security state led to different political outcomes
The Conversation
The government shutdown has ushered the Tea Party back into the spotlight. Lecturer David Smith says the movement wants to take over the Republican Party, not provide an alternative to it.
The Washington Post
How effectively can organisations take action on behalf of people outside the group? The University of Wisconsin-Madison's John S. Ahlquist and visiting professor Margaret Levi, based in part on research...
The mighty corporations most able to reverse American industrial decline don’t care
The death of the old media business model has led to the birth of several paradigms for journalism: all carry risks and rewards
This strange potpourri of chronologically discordant bits and pieces is incoherent and misleading
The Australian Financial Review
The Texas Republican Ted Cruz would never be blamed for a debt default by America but the GOP blinked and ended up in a worse place than where they...
