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Allied against Terrorism: New Publication from The Century Foundation Explores Global Counterterrorism Campaign
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10/4/2006
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Five years after the attacks of September 11, what are the prospects for the global counterterrorism campaign? In Allied against Terrorism: What’s Needed to Strengthen Worldwide Commitment, Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand, two distinguished counterterrorism experts, take on that question.
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New Task Force Report from The Century Foundation Calls for an Overhaul of Homeland Security Strategies and Funding
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6/29/2006
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Some of the country’s
leading homeland security experts analyze the nation's most significant
vulnerabilities and propose strategies to reduce them.
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After the Storm: Lessons from 9/11 on the Need to Help Katrina Survivors Deal
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9/8/2005
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Century Foundation Issues New Report about Providing Mental Health Services
to a Traumatized Population
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Rethinking the Patriot Act: A New Report from the Century Foundation Provides Context for the Current Reauthorization Debate
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6/9/2005
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One of the most
controversial and possibly one of the most misunderstood laws Congress
has ever enacted, the USA Patriot Act remains at the forefront of public
debate about security and civil liberties. For many Americans, it is
synonymous with an egregious and unjustifiable suspension of the Bill of
Rights.
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Are Bioterrorism Dollars Making Us Safer?
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1/13/2005
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New report from The
Century Foundation finds that federal funds have helped improve the
public health system but substantial vulnerabilities remain.
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New Publication from The Century Foundation Analyzes Controversial Provisions Up for Renewal
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9/1/2004
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The USA PATRIOT ACT: The
Basics explains the law, lays out the controversies, and synthesizes
what is known about how the legislation has been implemented.
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A Supreme Conflict: National Security and Civil Liberties
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4/29/2004
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The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a set of cases that are at the
heart of the current debate over balancing national security with civil liberties:
Does President Bush, as commander in chief, have the power to declare citizens
captured at home or abroad "enemy combatants" and then hold them indefinitely,
without criminal charges?
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Is
the Department of Homeland Security Making the Grade?The Century
Foundation Releases A Report Card on the Department's First Year
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3/4/2004
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The Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) has had mixed results in its first year of
operation, according to a new report from The Century Foundation.
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Author
of New Report on Bioterrorism Preparedness Dollars and Public Health
Says Ricin Incidents Demonstrate Urgency of Better Coordination
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2/4/2004
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The report released last
week revealed that despite an unprecedented infusion of bioterrorism
preparedness dollars, bioterrorism preparedness is suffering due to
large state budget deficits
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Are Bioterrorism Preparedness Dollars Making Us Safer? Improving Public Health?
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1/29/2004
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In 2002 Congress sent 1.6 billion dollars to states and cities toward public health and bioterrorism preparedness.
Two new reports address this issue.
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Read the Gursky Report.
Read the Turnock Report.
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New Report from The Century Foundation Examines Homeland Security Responses in Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and Washington
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6/25/2003
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The September 11 attacks made clear the central role that state and local governments play in homeland security.
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The Century Foundation and PublicAffairs Release The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
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6/17/2003
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In The War on Our
Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism (A Century Foundation
book, published by PublicAffairs, June 2003) fourteen thinkers,
scholars, journalists, and historians warn that we may be giving up more
of our freedoms than we realize to gain less security than we
need.
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The
War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism - Kathleen
Sullivan, Anthony Lewis, Joseph Lelyveld, and Alan Brinkely are Among
Contributors to New Book from The Century Foundation and PublicAffairs
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6/9/2003
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The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
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Conference Explores How New Technologies, National Security, Privacy, and Risk Affect Public Access to Information
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4/24/2003
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Security, Technology and Privacy: Shaping a 21st Century Public Information Policy
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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Media, Philanthropy, and Homeland Security
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3/15/2003
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New from The Century Foundation's Homeland Security Project:
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