New America in the News: 2012

Randa Slim, an adjunct research fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, suggested the SNC was not up to the task. Made up mostly of exiles, the council lacks the legitimacy on the ground, she said, that is enjoyed by the ...

'Addicted to Oil' “They are addicted to oil,” William Hartung, an analyst at the Center for International Policy, a Washington-based non- profit research group, said in an interview. There's also a “substantial price premium” to move to alternatives, ...

“Guys like Yingling ... are the canaries in the coal mine of Army reform,” an anonymous retired major general told journalist Fred Kaplan, writing in the New York Times magazine, in 2007. “Will they get promoted to general?

I was particularly befuddled by Evgeny Morozov's “The Death of the Cyberflaneur,” which takes the discussion in a direction . . . you wouldn't expect. Morozov laments the passing of what he calls the “cyberflaneur” (actually the term was coined on a ...

"Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up," says MacKinnon, a senior fellow at New America Foundation, a Washington, DC, think tank. Internet companies that set up inside China are expected to delete objectionable ...

PHOTO: ABID NAWAZ/EXPRESS “Drama sells beautifully,” said Anatol Lieven, “You see a headline, 'Pakistan on the edge of destruction' it does wonders for selling the news. Lieven, a British journalist, was speaking with The Express Tribune at a talk ...

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 ...