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Obama's Townhall in Shanghai

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:39:00 -0500

This afternoon in Shanghai, U.S. President Barack Obama held a townhall-style meeting with university students. It was an event that his staff had worked hard to include on his China trip itinerary. After a brief speech extolling the importance of core values to the success of the United States as a nation and Americans as individuals, Obama took questions from the audience and online.

How Microloans Change the Lives of Millions

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:30:00 -0400

A recent op-ed in the Boston Globe argues that microlending "doesn't actually do much to fight poverty" and that it may be time to "think macro rather than micro." Maybe the hype surrounding microcredit as a panacea for everything from poverty to discrimination is undeserved. But debunking the whole bottom-up, micro approach on the basis of two unpublished papers is not just premature, but dangerous. Macro, trickle-down development policies have rather effectively kept billions of people poor

Exclusive: Holbrooke on Holbrooke | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:12:00 -0400

He broke away Wednesday evening to attend a reception at the New America Foundation to celebrate the publication of the latest book by his wife, ...

Cuba | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:45:00 -0400

Steve Clemons, New America's foreign-policy chief and the editor of The Washington Note, organized the event and has been building a left-right coalition of ...

No Nixon-to-China Moment Here | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:48:00 -0400

Astonishingly, however, writing in the New York Times this week, former National Security Council staffers Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett suggest ...

China's Minority Problem--And Ours

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:10:00 -0400

On October 1, the People's Republic of China will mark its 60th anniversary with the largest military parade in its history. The ruling Communist Party is not commemorating 60 years of ideological stability and continuity, however, but a period of speedy change and dramatic reversals.

Cheney's Jihad

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:05:00 -0400

Futbol Tragedy

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:50:00 -0400

Barack Obama and a number of his cabinet members are only the second-most prominent American team to descend on Mexico this week (the U.S. president traveled to Guadalajara for the annual "Rodney Dangerfield summit," where Canada and Mexico try to get some respect from their disinterested neighbor). Most Mexicans are paying far more attention to the visit of a different delegation from north of the Rio Grande, the U.S. national soccer team that takes on Mexico in a crucial World Cup qualifying match at Mexico City's imposing Aztec Stadium on Wednesday.

What the Death of Pakistan's Public Enemy No. 1 Means | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:17:00 -0400

On Monday, August 10, Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation will launch The AfPak Channel, a special project featuring expert analysis from ...

A Somali Surprise? | Foreign Policy

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:37:00 -0400

U.S. terrorism experts agree that al Qaeda has suffered setbacks, at least in some parts of the world. Peter Bergen, a CNN analyst and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, said the "net effect of the drone attacks" along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, for instance, "has been devastating to their planning and training." Polling data also show a loss of public support for al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, Bergen said.