New America in the News: 2013

Writing for Newsweek and with the support of the Nation Institute's Investigative Fund, Mark Hertsgaard recently laid bare how Corexit was utilized and the dire effects it apparently had on the men and women who worked to “clean” the gulf in the wake ...

Rebecca MacKinnon, is among those who have called out these social networking behemoths on their bad behaviour, referring regularly to Mark Zuckerberg as "the sultan of Facebookistan". In her book, Consent of the Networked, she posits that the ...

“I am skeptical that the former chief lobbyist of the wireless and cable industries will be capable of holding his former clients accountable for their ongoing shortcomings,” says Sascha Meinrath, head of the Open Technology Institute at the New ...

Michael Lind points out in, Made In Texas, that we have had conservative presidents over the past century and southern presidents. We have not had the combination. And it is an important distinction. As Lind put it in an interview with BuzzFlash (2002 ...

I knew Peter Bergen [who wrote the book that provided the background for the movie], and he had told Greg Barker about me. Then, after talking to Greg for a while and understanding his intentions behind the movie, wanting to do first-hand storytelling ...

Slate, the New America Foundation and Arizona State University have kicked off a new podcast called "Future Tense," hosted by Internet scholar Tim Wu. The inaugural episode is an interview with Neal Stephenson wherein Neal and Tim talk about where the ...

Now, more than ever, we need a FCC Chairman who will serve as a champion for the public interest, take on industry giants, and make the hard decisions necessary to restore American competitiveness,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America ...

“Liberal Israel has to make its choice,” says Daniel Levy, who runs the Middle East programme for the European Council on Foreign Relations. “What's more important: Having the haredim serve in the army or a two-state solution?” But this is not a matter ...

As Annie Murphy Paul writes for Time, music improves performance, but only in certain situations. She says its most suited to when an experienced expert needs to "achieve the relaxed focus necessary to execute a job he's done many times before," like ...