New America in the News: 2012

The lack of participation in a retirement plan is at the heart of the crisis, says Michael Calabrese, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, which studies retirement security and health policy.

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"If you were to look at the Iran-China relationship in a vacuum, you'd say China imports fairly large quantities of oil" from Iran, said Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation specializing in the Middle East.

Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, says consumers will be vulnerable to rising prices until the US develops alternative fuels such as natural gas. For more information about reprints & permissions, ...

William Elliott III and Deborah Adams recommend taking $3 billion from the Perkins program and using it to establish a program where public funds would match money contributed by families, charities and organizations for an individual child's account.

... Feb 4 Joly sez, "Rebecca Mackinnon discusses her new book 'Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom' (Basic Books) with Mark Whitaker, managing editor for CNN Worldwide, at The New America Foundation NYC on Feb 1 2012.

Steven Hill, who heads the political reform program at the New America Foundation, a liberal Washington think tank, has just published a book: Europe's Promise. Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Future, in which he blames the media ...

In many ways, MacKinnon's book is the one Evgeny Morozov should have written, if he was more interested in building a sensible movement for Internet freedom rather than conducting scorched-earth warfare against people who believe the Internet can help ...

Media prof CW Anderson said that while Twitter did the best it could under the circumstances but showed it doesn't have any values that override its place as a business: “non-market values are, in the long run, incompatible with the logic of the market ...

...James Losey of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, thinks we have to look further back to “the battle over piano rolls, radio, the VCR, cable, MP3 players, TIVO…” to understand what’s going on. “Media industries need to innovate, not seek to control the Internet.”