New America in the News: 2012

Want someone who will be a great secretary of defense? Find someone who's not sure she really wants the job. Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown University, served as a counselor to the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy from 2009 to 2011.

Glaeser uses Jason DeParle's article in the New York Times about three young women who failed to achieve upward mobility by attending college as anecdotal evidence; I offer my own anecdotal evidence drawn from teaching at a Massachusetts community ...

... either because most do not know how or because they lack sufficient interest in -- or awareness of -- what exists on the other side of the 'great firewall,'” Rebecca MacKinnon writes in “Consent of the Networked,” a book on Internet freedom around ...

At the current pace of growth, according to the New America Foundation, our health insurance premiums in Tennessee will rise to more than $16,000 in 2016. We cannot sustain this type of growth in health care costs. The average insured Tennessean spends ...

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard, Mariner Books, 352 pp., $15.95. There is little use in continuing to deny climate change, and readers will find answers (and hope) here. Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat ...

In Pakistan, 46 strikes were carried out in 2012, compared to 72 in 2011 and 122 in 2010, the New America Foundation said, based on its compilation of reports in international media. But Yemen saw an equally drastic increase in the clandestine attacks ...

As Robert Wright notes at The Atlantic, former national security advisers James L. Jones, Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Frank Carlucci have all come out in support of Hagel. Via The Hill, the Washington Post and The Atlantic. Tags: Foreign ...

As Tim Wu wrote at The New York Times, “Change isn't always pretty, but a healthy city is one where old systems — even the hallowed taxi medallion — stand to be challenged by the winds of creative destruction.” New tech makes these businesses ...

In Pakistan, 46 strikes were carried out in 2012, compared to 72 in 2011 and 122 in 2010, the New America Foundation said, based on its compilation of reports in international media. But Yemen saw an equally drastic increase in the clandestine attacks ...