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Communications — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:45:00 -0500

A New America Event
10/30/2006 - 9:45am

This important New America conference features some of the nation's foremost economic experts. Video of the complete event is available at right.

Two new papers from our Economic Growth Program are being released as well -- one detailing the larger growth agenda, the other focused on developing America's Heartland. Both documents are now available below.

New America Foundation Launches Economic Growth Program, Releases Major Report on Realizing America’s Economic Potential

Communications — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:37:00 -0500

The New America Foundation launched its Economic Growth Program and introduced Bruce Stokes, International Economics Columnist with National Journal, as the director of the Program at a major policy conference today in Washington. New America also released the Program’s first report, “Realizing America’s Economic Potential: A Growth Agenda for the New Abundant Economy,” which shows how our nation’s policy approach must change to meet the challenges associated with a world economy of higher productivity growth and abundant labor and capital.

“Our nation’s debate about economic growth tends to be highly partisan and parochial,” said Ted Halstead, President… more

Book Launch: The American Way of Strategy

Communications — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:29:00 -0400

A New America Event
10/25/2006 - 3:00pm

The New York Times Sunday Book Review calls The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life “a shrewd and plausible critique of the drift of policy since the cold war" and Publishers Weekly praises it for “exposing the folly of the current imperial strategy” of the United States. Michael Lind, Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The American Way of Strategy, recently appeared on CNN’s "Lou Dobbs Tonight" to discuss the book, which offers a hard-hitting and controversial new study of America’s role in the world.

Lind argues that the goal of U.S. foreign policy has always been the preservation of the American way of life -- embodied in civilian government, checks and balances, a commercial economy, and individual freedom. Americans are unlikely to lose their cherished rights because of a military coup or a foreign conquest, he writes. The more plausible and frightening scenario is one in which foreign danger forces Americans themselves to jettison their way of life, sacrificing liberty to ensure security.

Video of this provocative examination of America’s current foreign policy -- including a question and answer session moderated Economic Growth Program Director Bruce Stokes -- is available at right, while an MP3 audio recording can be downloaded below.