In the News: Quotes and Media Appearances

Lugar Introduces Legislation to Extend START Verification Regime | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:58:00 -0500

... telemetry," Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, said on his blog ArmsControlWonk.com. ...

Obama Desperately Needs New Mideast Approach | AFP

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:45:00 -0500

"The current policy has neither the respect of the Israelis, nor of the Palestinians," according to Amjad Atallah, an expert with the New America Foundation ...

Did Republicans Rally the Stock Market? | CNBC

Erin Drankoski — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:11:00 -0500

California's Revolutionaries | Le Monde

Erin Drankoski — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:05:00 -0500

On the docket: "Proposition 13," the referendum by which the people of California, in 1978, voted to amend the constitution of the state to limit taxes. The text of the referendum caps the property tax to 1% of property value. To raise taxes, there needs to be a super-majority vote of two thirds in the legislature. "California is the only state where it takes a two-thirds majority vote to pass a budget and raise taxes, comments Steven Hill

Deficit Hawks | Newsweek

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:39:00 -0500

... a form of defense—as a shield for policies they don't like," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB), ...

Triple Threat in Tehran | New York Daily News

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:16:00 -0500

As the New America Foundation, which worked with Bloomberg on the probe, put it: "Iran appears to be developing a significant source of uranium - a source ...

Health-Care Reform's Hidden Taxes | BusinessWeek

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:56:00 -0500

... would come from trimming tax breaks for such things as health savings accounts and medical expenses, according to fiscal watchdog US Budget Watch. ...

Analysts Criticize Administration's Mideast Efforts | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:24:00 -0500

Daniel Levy, a veteran Israeli peace negotiator now at the Century Foundation in Washington, summed up the administration's efforts in recent days as ...

Planet Slum | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:21:00 -0500

Slum sanctuaries: For six weeks in 2005, photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen lived in a tiny sweltering ...

'Change Has Come' ... or Has It?

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:07:00 -0500

"We thought we were getting a man of action. Instead, we got someone who'll spend six hours chasing a white ball around a park," Joe Mathews, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said, with tongue planted only partly in cheek. "If voters had known about the golf, they would have been less surprised by his lack of urgency on many issues." ... Original Article

What Next for Afghanistan? | The Guardian (London)

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:42:00 -0500

Sameer Lalwani is a research fellow at the Washington-based New America Foundation:

"I think the expectation will be for the Obama administration to leverage pressure on the Karzai government to 'clean up' his governing style but I doubt Karzai will do so, certainly not quickly," said Lalwani.

Iran Boosts Output of Uranium Mine, Satellite Images Show | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:00 -0500

... for a covert [uranium enrichment] program,” said Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Obama's World Outreach Teetering | Asia Times

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:59:00 -0500

... forth a vision of the kinds of relationships he wanted," said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Project at the New America Foundation. ...

Buffet Bets Big on Trains | The Takeaway

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:29:00 -0500

Joining us is Phillip Longman, Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of “The Next Progressive Era: A Blueprint for Broad ...

Deficit-Neutral Health Proposals May Make Fiscal Fixes Trickier | Investor's Business Daily

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:45:00 -0500

... make real progress they should do a lot more on slowing cost growth," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

Iran Raises Uranium Output as Photos Show Need for Wider Checks | Bloomberg

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:40:00 -0500

... seen in pictures obtained by Bloomberg News and the Washington-based New America Foundation, according to four nuclear analysts who examined the images. ...

Mandatory Christmas Music? | San Francisco Chronicle

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:06:00 -0500

She told New America Foundation: "We were having Christmas without Jesus." The problem is, the draft doesn't explain the difference between a Christmas song ...

Obama's Outreach to Muslim World Teetering | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:33:00 -0500

... forth a vision of the kinds of relationships he wanted," said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Project at the New America Foundation. ...

Obama Budget Dir. Pledges Deficit Action Next Year | The Associated Press

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:36:00 -0500

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a group that advocates for fiscal responsibility, praised the administration ...

Cash for Clunkers Critics Get White House Response | U.S. News & World Report

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:25:00 -0500

... already had their demands for new cars? That's the argument made by Megan McArdle and others--that Cash for Clunkers just moved auto sales forward. ...