New America in the News: 2013

Kevin Carey, the director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, likens it to an unintended social experiment: “Let's send a whole class of people out into their professional lives with a negative net worth,” he told the New ...

Lean In, an extension of a TED talk that Sandberg gave in 2010, is a book that has managed to offend both the Left and Right, so its author "must be doing something right," quipped panel centrist Christine Rosen, a fellow at the New America Foundation, ...

Long-time education journalist Dana Goldstein speculated on her blog that Weingarten's moratorium call is proof that education matters that were once considered products of a “coalition” of centrist-minded – although mostly conservative – wonks and ...

News of the arrests in a case of violence that brought unwanted national attention to the tourist-dependent city was welcomed by San Francisco freelance journalist Mark Hertsgaard, shot in the leg as he watched the parade. “I love New Orleans and I ...

“I've never seen such an accomplished group of people give such muddled answers,” testified Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon policy official. Spencer Ackerman. Danger Room senior reporter Spencer Ackerman recently won the 2012 National Magazine ...

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the two ...

..."People who are making drones like to say they are safer than manned aircraft," New America Foundation Fellow Konstantin Kakaes said. "But the drones in the Air Force fleet crash three times as often as manned aircraft."

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Based on the book by national security journalist Peter Bergen, “Manhunt†features interviews with more than a dozen key players in the decade-plus-long race to catch the world’s most wanted man, both before and after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report, “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the ...