New America in the News: 2012

Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, writes that in Pakistan alone, President Obama has authorized over 283 drone strikes, six times more than President George W. Bush in his eight years in office. Forget waterboarding, a drone strike is mass ...

“These are great opportunities for helping children make connections between the learning in the game and the learning they are doing in the physical world,” said Lisa Guernsey, a director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation and one of the authors of the report.

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"If left unchanged, the program is set to provide huge financial windfalls to people who, far from being needy, are among the most financially well-off graduates in today's job market," according to the study authored by Jason Delisle and Alex Holt ...

... municipal services and prepare for a post-Assad future. Additional participants included: Ilhan Tanir, Washington correspondent for the Turkish daily newspaper Vatan, and Leila Hilal, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America ...

I think that is a largely exaggerated fear,” says Leila Hilal, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. Hilal says al-Nusrah's leadership may subscribe to a hardline Islamist doctrine but that the make-up of its fighters is ...

The torture scene takes up about 30 minutes of the film's opening, according to CNN's National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, who wrote, “Obama's opposition to torture comes off as wrongheaded and prissy,” in the film. Jessica Chastain as CIA analyst ...

said Kevin Carey, an education analyst at the New America Foundation. “It doesn't surprise me that they're being deliberate about it. If they're putting their brand names behind this effort in a very public way, you absolutely want to mitigate against ...

“The interesting question is, how good is the thing that’s free?” said Kevin Carey, an education analyst at the New America Foundation. “It doesn’t surprise me that they’re being deliberate about it. If they’re putting their brand names behind this effort in a very public way, you absolutely want to mitigate against the risk of people saying, ‘This is no good.’”

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said Kevin Carey, an education analyst at the New America Foundation. "It doesn't surprise me that they're being deliberate about it. If they're putting their brand names behind this effort in a very public way, you absolutely want to mitigate against ...