The Salt Lake Tribune

Eliza Griswold, in a recently-published study, The Tenth Parallel, Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ...

Attacking a religious organization rarely works, said Joe Mathews, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a political think tank in southern California.

"In fact, it's counterproductive," said Mathews, who supports gay marriage. He said he understands why opponents of the ballot measure would target the LDS Church.

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The federal intervention in the credit crisis may make health-system changes even more dramatic when they do arrive, said Len Nichols, who heads [the health policy program] in Washington, D.C.-based New America Foundation, a policy research group.