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In that book, Joel Garreau — like Woodard, a journalist — tossed out the notion of states and regrouped North America into nine cleverly named "nations," like the Breadbasket and the Foundry. But while Garreau's book had a playful edge, Woodard's is ...

But as demographers such as Phillip Longman and Nicholas Eberstadt have noted, that growth will be driven by declines in mortality and an increase in elders, not children. And it will not continue forever. Both Longman and Eberstadt predict that ...

The group connected with Namulonge through Fred Ssewamala, a native of the village, who studied for master's and doctorate degrees at Washington University ...

"I think the Iranians are simply in no mood to accept any serious limits on the expansion of their program," said Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran Project at the New America Foundation ...

Still, the New America Foundation expects the overall cost of Medicare Part D to increase 11.1 percent each year between now and 2018. Cost saving measures still are needed. Congress also should take up new incentives for wellness and preventative ...

Jason DeLisle, research director for education policy at the New America Foundation, thinks Bayer's optimism may be warranted. DeWild favors elimination of the private-sector loan subsidies, but he knows that his side runs into a political buzzsaw when ...

Lisa Margonelli isn't impressed. "The current dialogue is profoundly depressing and fake," she told me. "I think both candidates need to be more honest about our options."

Margonelli is a California-based fellow at the high-powered New America Foundation policy think tank in Washington and the author of the fascinating and immensely entertaining best-seller Oil on the Brain.

Student loans feeling credit crunch, too (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Late in October, plans by the U.S. Department of Energy to construct a new, $500 million nuclear weapons plant in Kansas City came closer to fruition: The White House Office of Management and Budget signed off on a novel private financing arrangement for the deal.

Student loan banks and their allies are trying to spin away the public’s outrage over the discovery that private lenders have been bribing college aid officials to steer student business their way. The banks want to change the subject by criticizing the government’s separate direct loan program instead of looking at where all that bribe money comes from: You.