Implicit Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Much Ado About Nothing? Source: PENNumbra (University of Pennsylvania Law Review) The election of Barack Obama marks a significant milestone for race relations in our nation—on this much our debaters agree. The meaning of this milestone for th...

2007 Circumvention Landscape Report: Methods, Uses, and Tools Source: Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University As the Internet has exploded over the past fifteen years, recently reaching over a billion users, dozens of national governments from China to Saudi Arabia have tried ...

Americans File Taxes Earlier and Online in Hopes of Faster Refunds, According to NRF Survey Source: National Retail Federation Anxious to get hard-earned money back in their pockets, Americans expecting a tax return will be filing early this year, according to NRF’s Tax Returns Consumer Intentions...

The State Department’s 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Source: U.S. Department of State From Special Briefing by Karen Stewart, Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: Officers at our overseas posts go to great lengths to gather factual information for ...

The Disappearing Defined Benefit Pension and Its Potential Impact on the Retirement Incomes of Boomers Source: Urban Institute Over the last three decades there has been a steady shift from DB to DC pensions. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 may accelerate this trend. This paper examines the impac...

At-a-glance: Better late than never? Source: Center for Public Education For most of us, thinking of high school graduation brings memories of walking across a stage to “Pomp and Circumstanceâ€� after four years of hard work. But for a persistent and overlooked group of students—late graduatesâ€...

Reducing Costs While Improving the U.S. Health Care System: The Health Care Reform Pyramid Source: Deloitte LLP In recent history, health care reform efforts have fallen short as a result of two forces: The economics of the status quo make change an uphill battle for reformers and end users – cons...

Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction These red flags were the first signs of how challenging executing oversight in Iraq would be. But it has not been impossible, chiefly because of the professional, productive, and courageous con...

NSF/OIG Semiannual Report to Congress, September 2008 Source: National Science Foundation, Office of Inspector General From Politico story — Grassley launches porn inquiry Chuck Grassley knows it when he sees it. The “it,â€� of course, is pornography. And Grassley has seen it deep in a demur...

Anti Same-Sex Marriage Amendments Spark Psychological Distress Among GLBT Adults and Their Families, According to New Research Source: American Psychological Association Amendments that restrict civil marriage rights of same-sex couples – such as Proposition 8 that recently passed in California â€...