New America Events This Month

When Samantha Power won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, many people wondered what she would write for an encore. Her answer is a groundbreaking biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello. In nearly four decades of work for the United Nations, Sergio distinguished himself as the consummate humanitarian, able to negotiate with-and often charm-cold war military dictators, Marxist jungle radicals, reckless warlords, and nationalist and sectarian militia leaders. … more

On Tuesday, February 19th, the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation held a joint event with the Heritage Foundation entitled "Rethinking Social Insurance.” At this event, Maya MacGuineas (New America Foundation) and Stuart Butler (Heritage Foundation) released a paper by the same name, which then received comments from former CBO directors Alice Rivlin (Brookings Institution) and Rudolph Penner (Urban Institute). The event was moderated by Jodie Allen, Senior Editor of the Pew… more