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Eric Schmidt in San Jose Mercury News | Google CEO Will Take New America Foundation's Helm

Communications — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:35:00 -0500

New America in the News:

Google CEO Will Take New America Foundation's Helm (San Jose Mercury News)

Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has been named to be the next chairman of the New America Foundation, which researches issues such as health care and education.

Schmidt will become chairman June 1, the foundation said Thursday in a statement. He succeeds James Fallows, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly magazine and former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter.

Schmidt will help the organization as the endowment and staff grow, Steve Coll, the foundation's CEO, said in an interview. Other board members include Quadrangle Group principal Steven Rattner and Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International. more

New America on CNET | Google's Schmidt named chair of think tank

Communications — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:58:00 -0500

New America in the News:

Google's Schmidt named chair of think tank (CNET)

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has been named as chairman of the board to the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C. that focuses on issues like healthcare, education and foreign policy.

Schmidt joined the board 10 years ago when the centrist think tank was founded and before he joined Google. He will assume his new role June 1... more

Eric Schmidt in The Associated Press | Google CEO Named Chairman of Think Tank

Communications — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:49:00 -0500

New America in the News:

Google CEO Named Chairman of Think Tank (The Associated Press)

Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive of the world's largest search engine, needs to update his profile on the company Web site.

If he doesn't, his new chairmanship at the New America Foundation won't show up if Schmidt Googles himself.

On Thursday, the Google chairman and CEO became chairman of the Washington think tank whose various issues include telecommunications and technology policy.

His unpaid position will be effective June 1.

The first chairman for Google Inc. when he joined in 2001, Schmidt will be the think tank's second since it began in 1999. He's been on the think tank's board since its inception. He follows James Fallows, a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine. Fallows will remain on the board.

Schmidt's election also follows the September arrival of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll as the president and chief executive of New America, which has a $13.5 million annual budget, 75 staff members and 25 fellows. The group's policy issues also include economic growth, foreign policy and trade, among others. ... more

--This article appeared online in BusinessWeek, Forbes, Conde Nast Portfolio, CNN Money, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicel, Houston Chronicle, Newsday, Boston Globe and many more news media websites.

Eric Schmidt in Chronicle of Philanthropy | Google CEO Named Chairman of New America Board

Communications — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:41:00 -0500

New America in the News:

Google CEO Named Chairman of New America Board (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer of Google, will become the chairman of the New America Foundation’s Board of Directors on June 1, the group announced. He plans to mark his new role by making an an unrestricted $1-million donation to the group.

Mr. Schmidt has served on the foundation’s board since its founding in 1999, but he has not been as actively involved in philanthropy as many of his fellow billionaires.

He says he was attracted to the group from the beginning because “they would try to do things that were unconventional. They were like Google, but before Google existed.”

Even when he disagreed with work produced by the scholars and journalist at the foundation, he says, he still found the work worthwhile and provocative. more

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Appointed as Chairman of New America Foundation's Board of Directors

Communications — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:16:00 -0500

The New America Foundation, a nonpartisan ten-year-old think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., announced today the appointment of Dr. Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive of Google, Inc., as the new chairman of New America's Board of Directors. Dr. Schmidt, who has been a member of the New America board since the policy institute's founding, will succeed James Fallows, the author and national correspondent of The Atlantic. Fallows will remain on New America's board after the transition, which will take place on June 1st; Fallows was New America's founding board chairman. "New America is… more

Steve Coll Named Next President of New America Foundation

adminn — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:00:00 -0400

The Board of Directors of the New America Foundation announced today the appointment of Steve Coll as the Foundation’s next President & CEO. Coll will succeed New America’s founding President & CEO, Ted Halstead, who will remain on New America’s Board.

“Ted Halstead has been a wonderful leader through an astonishingly successful first chapter in New… more

Terrorism, Security and America's Purpose

Communications — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
09/06/2005 - 12:00pm

On September 6-7, 2005, just days before the fourth anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the New America Foundation convened a major national policy forum to examine the challenge of international terrorism and how best to confront it.

The forum brought together national and international public leaders, policymakers and scholars, security and intelligence officials, media, and citizens from diverse viewpoints to discuss a comprehensive plan of action for addressing the threat of terrorism around the world.

Among the featured speakers were Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Retired General Wesley Clark, best-selling author Tom Clancy, Chairman of Soros Fund Management George Soros, U.S. Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, National Correspondent for Atlantic Monthly James Fallows, U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Honorable Martin H. Halperin, Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, National Security Council, Rita E. Hauser, Chair of the International Peace Academy, and The Honorable Theodore "Ted" Sorenson, Former Special Counsel to President John F. Kennedy.

The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith

Communications — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
04/04/2005 - 12:00pm

In his recently released biography, Richard Parker tells the story of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the world's most famous living economists. Parker captures Galbraith's long career in economics and politics as well as the evolution of his economic thought.

As a Harvard professor for forty years, and an adviser to Democratic presidents and presidential candidates since the 1930s, Galbraith has been a powerful and witty voice for progressive thought. His work focuses on inequality of wealth, income, and power; on excessive consumption and corporate abuse; on environmental damage; on the dangers of rampant military spending and the risks of war; and on the critical importance of public investment and spending given the failure of markets to provide critical needs in the U.S. and globally.

In his biography about Galbraith, Parker offers an analysis through Galbraith's eyes of the economics and politics since the New Deal and explores alternatives available to us today.

The U.S. In The World: What Should Drive America's 'Next' Foreign Policy?

Communications — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
07/15/2004 - 12:07pm

-Jodie Allen Senior Editor, Pew Research Center and former Managing Editor, U.S. News & World Report Michael Lind Whitehead Senior Fellow James Fallows Chairman, New America Foundation Dimitri Simes President, Nixon Center; and author, "America's Imperial Dilemma," Foreign Affairs James Steinberg Vice President and Director of Foreign Studies, Brookings Institutionand former Deputy National Security Adviser to the President Jessica Tuchman Mathews President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Cyberterrorism: How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet

Communications — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
07/07/2004 - 12:00pm

Terrorists fight their wars in cyberspace as well as on the ground. However, while politicians and the media have hotly debated the dangers that cyberterrorism poses to the Internet, surprisingly little is known about the threat posed by terrorists' use of the Internet.

Today, as this report makes plain, terrorist organizations and their supporters maintain hundreds of websites, exploiting the unregulated, anonymous, and easily accessible nature of the Internet to target an array of messages to a variety of audiences. Gabriel Weimann identifies no fewer than eight different ways in which terrorists are using the Internet to advance their cause, ranging from psychological warfare to recruitment, networking to fundraising. In each case, the report not only analyzes how the Internet can facilitate terrorist operations but also illustrates the point with examples culled from an extensive exploration of the World Wide Web.

Confronting the Coming Anarchy

Communications — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
06/21/2004 - 12:00pm

The Forgotten Home Front

Articles — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0500

At kabuki performances in Japan audiences sometimes exclaim "Matte mashita!" during crucial points in the drama. In context this means something like "Here it comes!" or "This is what we've been waiting for!" and it greets the best-known lines in the play. If American theatergoers followed the same custom, people would yell "Matte mashita!" when they heard "To be or not to be ..." in Hamlet or "I'll be back" in a Terminator movie.

In American political culture, which displays some of the same affection for formulaic stagecraft, the theatrical highlight of the year is the State of the Union… more

What Is The Real State of the Union? (Panel One)

Communications — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
01/14/2003 - 12:00pm

8:30 am Registration and Coffee Welcoming Remarks

The Case for the Draft?

Communications — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
11/16/2001 - 12:00pm

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the debate surrounding National Service has drastically changed. Average Americans are suddenly eager to know what they can do personally to help the war effort, and lawmakers are beginning to provide answers. Senators John McCain and Evan Bayh have introduced legislation to dramatically expand the size and scope of voluntary national service programs such as AmeriCorps to include civil defense.

"Americans did not fight and win World War II as discrete individuals," McCain writes in the October Issue of The Washington Monthly. "Their brave and determined energies were mobilized and empowered by a national government headed by democratically elected leaders. That is how a free society remains free and achieves greatness. National service is a crucial means of making our patriotism real, to the benefit of both ourselves and our country."

Others have gone further and called for compulsory national service, including Mark Sheilds, who asked in the Washington Post, "Should only American volunteers be asked to die in the defense of the United States? Should we not reinstate a draft to affirm the duty for all Americans to serve when the American nation is in genuine need? Is it not both unhealthy and unjust to apportion the fighting and the dying to such an unrepresentative and unpowerful segment of our national population?"

Paul Glastris and Charles Moskos have also called for a draft, claiming in the Washington Post that, "[R]e-instituting the draft is the obvious way to meet the suddenly increased manpower needs for military and homeland security."

How will the attacks of September 11th affect the debate on National Service? Can National Service help meet the new manpower needs for homeland security? Should Women share in potentially dangerous assignments? Will enough young people meet the call voluntarily? Or has the time come for a 21st Century draft to meet 21st Century threats?

Whither the New Economy?

Communications — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:15:00 -0500

A New America Event
11/20/2000 - 12:15pm

No event summary is available.

A Neo-Realist Perspective on Information Technology

Communications — Thu, 14 Oct 1999 12:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
10/14/1999 - 12:00pm

No event summary is available.