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The New America Foundation, a think tank in Washington, estimates that the CIA drones have killed at least 1717 people, including 1424 militants. Other estimates run considerably higher. John Brennan, Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser, ...

"There is no single company in California that's more important to the California economy than Apple," Joe Mathews, a journalist and Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, told NBC. Steve Jobs has shown how free market capitalism – not ...

Californians are struggling to pay their health insurance bills while insurance companies' profits are on the rise. One apparent fix is Assembly Bill 52 authored by Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, that would allow state regulators to reject excessive rate increases. However, the recent experience of Massachusetts suggests that this California bill may not go nearly far enough.

But as detailed state-by-state data compiled by the New America Foundation underscore, there's almost no correlation between per-pupil spending and learning yardsticks, such as academic test scores and high school graduation rates. ...

Joe Mathews, co-author of "California Crackup," which examines the state's governance problems, said adding another spending limit "is almost kind of insane" because of how many budget restrictions are already in place. Mathews said it is impossible to ...

Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposals to realign local services and redevelopment are a great public service. Not because they represent deep change – they don't – but because they expose the broad and bipartisan consensus against any meaningful overhaul of California's broken governing system.

The broad opposition to Brown's redevelopment and realignment arguments illustrates the extent to which our state has acclimated itself to the afterworld of Proposition 13, even though it robs us of our ability to govern ourselves democratically and condemns our children to a shabbier life.

Both Paul's book, written with colleague Joe Mathews of the New America Foundation, and Lustig's collection of essays from various writers outline concrete ...

Such piecemeal changes, however, have historically exacerbated problems rather than solved them, said Joe Mathews, who co-wrote a recent book, ...

... "California Crackup" by Joe Mathews and Mark Paul (University of California Press, $19.95, 240 pages): A change of governors doesn't mean the state's economic and political problems will be remedied overnight. Here, two seasoned political journalists offer their "uniquely California fix." ...

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