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Examines the information needs of the 21st century American citizen and proposes 15 public policy recommendations for sustaining democracy in the Digital Age.

This report is written from the perspective of an informed observer at the Seventeenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology. Unless attributed to a particular person, none of the comments or ideas contained in this report should be taken as embodying the views or carrying the endorsement of any specific participant at the Conference.

Chicago 2016’s Candidature File - our Bid Book - provides the most detailed look to date at the bid’s concept for the Games. The Bid Book is an in-depth response to a series of questions posed to each of the Candidate cities hoping to host the 2016 Olympics and Paralympic Games. It includes information on 17 topics that range from our concept for the Games to accommodation, transport, environment, and more.

Foreign direct investment is a vital part of the US economy, but it periodically raises public and congressional alarms. Under what conditions might a foreign acquisition of a US company constitute a genuine national security threat to the United States? What kinds of risks and threats should CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) analysts, strategists, and congressional overseers be prepared to identify and deal with?

To tackle this problem strategically, Three Threats classifies the potential threats into three distinct categories.

Selected as one of the Books of the Century by The New York Public Library

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Austrian/Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City.

The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas. It was also adapted into a popular motion picture, the first feature film directed by Elia Kazan.

This primer highlights structured analytic techniques-some widely used in the private sector and academia, some unique to the intelligence profession. It is not a comprehensive overview of how intelligence officers conduct analysis.

Rather, the primer highlights how structured analytic techniques can help one challenge judgments, identify mental mindsets, stimulate creativity, and manage uncertainty. In short, incorporating regular use of techniques such as these can enable one to structure thinking for wrestling with difficult questions.

Few lessons are as prevalent in military history as is the adage that tanks don't perform well in cities. The notion of deliberately committing tanks to urban combat is anathema to most. In "Breaking the Mold: Tanks in the Cities," Ken Gott disproves that notion with a timely series of five case studies from World War II to the present war in Iraq.