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Internships at the American Strategy Program
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Intern, American Strategy Program
The New America Foundation is continually seeking enthusiastic intern applicants to assist the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. The American Strategy Program at the new America Foundation is one of Washington's most dynamic and innovative foreign policy centers situated at the nexus of strategy, policy and politics.
Primary Responsibilities
Reading Arnold's Mind
People have been asking your blogger the following question: what's the difference between working at the LA Times (I quit earlier this year) and being a fellow at New America? The answer is easy: technology. Because New America is a think tank, I have access to the Mind Reading Machine (MRM), a little-known device. This weekend, I got to use the machine for the first time, and I decided to point it at the brain of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last week was a big one for him and for California: a revised budget proposal that was widely panned, his renewed push to get his budget reform plan on the November ballot, and a state Supreme Court ruling permitting gay couples to marry in the state.
Here's what the Mind Reading Machine spit up:
"You know when something good happens at the wrong time? I can't admit this to anyone, but that's how I think about this gay marriage ruling.
I've got no problem with gay marriage, of course, but up til now I've done a great job of avoiding the issue politically. Many Republican voters didn't know my private views before the Supreme Court did its thing Thursday and I had to issue a statement saying I would uphold the court's decision. I had everyone confused because I came down hard on that big forehead [MRM EDITOR'S NOTE: forehead is an all-purpose insult favored by the governor], the mayor of San Francisco, for marrying those folks without any legal authority. If you look at what I said, I condemned him not for the marriages but for making up the law as he went along.
