New America in the News: 2013

"Spending is measured in numbers, not words," said Jason Delisle, a former Republican staffer on the Senate Budget Committee and now director of the New America Foundation's Federal Budget Project. "The Murray budget does not include funding for any ...

Kevin Carey points out in the Washington Monthly that colleges “give preference to the children of legacies, professors, celebrities, politicians, and people who write large checks to the general fund. All of these groups are also disproportionately ...

Members of Congress need experts who can provide them unbiased research and facts, and its current sources of expertise aren't sufficient, a new paper from the New America Foundation says. The paper (.pdf), published March 26, says the Congressional ...

Col. Mark “Puck” Mykleby is a former marine and co-author (along with Capt. Wayne Porter) of A National Strategic Narrative for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, a document that encouraged broadening the concept of defense to include sustainability. Currently Mark is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan policy institute dedicated to questions about the American future. We learned about Mark through our 41st interviewee, John Fullerton.

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William Elliott III, assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, found that of high school students who expect to go to college, those with a custodial savings account in their name were six times more likely to actually attend.

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Sascha Meinrath, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Open Technology Institute, said using meters as Internet channels is a “a real Faustian bargain,” a smart use of technology that will require “privacy protections that are second to none.” “If ...

The visualization does an excellent job conveying the sheer scale of collateral damage from strikes used to kill only a few high-value targets, and uses information on those high-value targets from the reputable New America Foundation. The real ...

"The people pushing what they say is the real account is the one that isn't that heroic, where bin Laden is sort of finished off on the floor, a lucky shot, as opposed to a man-to-man," said CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, who spoke to the ...

Now a third member has broken his silence, telling CNN journalist Peter Bergen that the other accounts of the fateful day were wrong. "The SEAL team member I spoke to said [the Esquire account is] completely false, Bin Laden couldn't have reached for a ...