New America in the News: 2013

Tim Wu, who founded ilaowai eight years ago, told Metro Beijing his company "negotiates deals with the government" for visa overstayers. He candidly admits his business thrives in a legally gray area. "It is a loophole, there are many in China. There ...

"It's one thing to stretch the law to stop a criminal syndicate or terrorist organization," says Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, at The New Yorker. "It's quite another when prosecuting a reckless young man." The act was harmless — not in ...

Lind salts his closing chapters with the kind of inventive policy propositions that his New America Foundation so abundantly generates. More investments in infrastructure. Better control of health-care costs. Extension of the Earned Income Tax Credit ...

Glenn: Education experts are watching the Straighter Line model, a first for the for-credit, online college course industry. Amy Laitinen is deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank. She believes Straighter Line’s new price model could develop into a trend.

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Rachel Fishman, a policy analyst researching online education at public universities for the nonpartisan New America Foundation, which has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., said online degree programs are "common sense for state-supported institutions."

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Based on its compilation of reports in international media, the New America Foundation reported that U.S. drone strikes in Yemen rose from 18 in 2011 to 53 in 2012. In what should come as no surprise to anyone following the unconscionable chronicle of ...

President Obama has made closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp even harder by letting it fade from the national political conversation, panelists at the New America Foundation said Jan. 11. The government can continue to hold prisoners cleared for ...

On Friday, he was at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. on a panel to discuss President Obama's failure to close down Guantanamo — despite Obama's promises to do so. Davis said that for the past couple of years, at the end of the year, ...

As Gabriel Sherman put it last year, "the strictures that are holding the banks back now are tighter than any since the thirties." And in dismissing the long-term secular changes in explaining what's wrong, CEOs who talk about cyclicality only are ...