New America in the News: 2012

'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?

But don't tell that to Evgeny Morozov, Stanford visiting scholar, author of The Net Delusion, and the man responsible for the Feb. 4 New York Times op-ed "The Death of the Cyberflâneur." Morozov is an educated man, and with nuance and skill, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation said the tough talk from Israel and sense of crisis had not been triggered by sudden advances by Iran on its nuclear program -- but politics. "The only reason why that this is anywhere near the top of the ...

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 ...

... 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.