New America in the News: 2013

While today's guest, Louie Palu, did work as a photojournalist in Afghanistan, he's since turned his lens on a different kind of war. Palu recently spent a year photographing the drug trade in Mexico, from checkpoints in Texas and Arizona to villages ...

“This is the most important part of immigration reform,” said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national coalition of small- and medium-size-business owners that pushes for immigration reforms to benefit employers. “Not just for the ...

Another proposal ties rates to bonds issued by the federal government, which allows interest rates to rise and fall with the market, said Jason Delisle, director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. ...

said Tamar Jacoby with the pro-reform group ImmigrationWorks USA. Camarota added: "We want a stakeholder society. We want a country that can ask certain things of you and you can ask certain things of the country." But Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration ...

Disproportionately harsh penalties harm innocent victims. CFAA was misused against Aaron Swartz. He was maliciously targeted. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discussed congressional efforts to toughen CFAA. Law Professor Tim Wu was cited.

One big problem for Saxifrage is the need for accreditation, which most prospective students want, said Kevin Carey, director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. Higher education has been largely ...

If February’s merger agreement between American Airlines and U.S. Airways sparked a sense of déjà vu, that may be because it would create the seventh major airline coupling since 2005.

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The problem is, it's too small,” said Immigration Works USA President Tamar Jacoby. “If there is a deal, let's hope we can fix it going forward.” 2. Gaming the Economic Model. The ultimate goal of the negotiators is to come up with a system in which ...

Months later, education reporter Dana Goldstein argued that “the most egregious practices in Atlanta…are part of a national, and indeed a historic trend, one that is bolstered by No Child Left Behind's emphasis on pressuring educators to produce ...