Steve Coll, a former managing editor of The Washington Post and now a writer for The New Yorker, suggested that Congress should look at easing the restrictions of journalistic institutions trying to morph into nonprofits and begin replacing lost ...
There is an old expression here, originally applied to economics and trade, that says “when the United States sneezes, Mexico catches cold.” The events of the last month suggest that the reverse may also be literally true. Or, as Jorge Castañeda, ...
“We need the money,” said Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation, which supports overhauling the current insurance system to give more people access. Some supporters of these plans say the current system gives an advantage to ...
Indeed, more often than not, parties are vehicles of self-interest -- which was one reason the country's framers were suspicious of them to begin with, said Ted Widmer, a historian at Brown University. “It's odd that parties are sacrosanct to so many ...
“I think Obama was trying to invoke the notion of tradeoffs more than rationing,” said Len Nichols, who directs the health care program at the New America Foundation, a Washington research organization. “Curative care for his grandmother was futile. ...
... a richly textured and highly readable exploration of the inner Roosevelt, presented with analytical acuity and flashes of originality; and “The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century,” by Steve Coll, an epic tale extending far beyond ...
Jorge Castaneda, a professor of international relations at New York University and former foreign minister of Mexico, said that if Mr. Obama does meet with Mr. Chávez, even briefly, the president “runs the risk of bumping in and shaking hands and then ...
“It’s not unusual to have a series of failures at the beginning of a missile program,” Jeffrey G. Lewis, an arms control specialist at the New America Foundation, a research group in Washington, said in an interview. “But they don’t test enough to ...
In a Facebook posting, Steven Clemons of the centrist New America Foundation wondered tongue-in-cheek “which world leaders will catch Obama’s head cold — and whether they will use this politically to show their closeness to him. ...
