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And probably more than in previous years," said Jason Peuquet, research director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Obama's proposal for increased taxes on gas and oil, however, were completely ignored, Peuquet said, as were reduced ...

From 2004-07, the United States launched a total of nine drone strikes, followed by 33 in 2008, 53 in 2009, and 118 in 2010, and 70 in the first 10 1/2 months of 2011, a study by the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank, stated. ...

Timothy Naftali said he would be joining the New America Foundation think tank and completing a book on Nixon's political rival, John F. Kennedy. "I have much broader intellectual interests than Richard Nixon's presidency, and I'm going back to them," ...

"With the death of guys like Atiyah, it's increasingly likely that the al-Qaida affiliate groups are just going to start doing their own thing," Brian Fishman, a terrorism analyst at the New America Foundation, told the Times. ...

Evgeny Morozov, a contributing editor for Foreign Policy magazine who examines the political effects of the Internet, wrote in The Guardian newspaper in London in March that it was too early to give credit to social media. "One reason we keep talking ...

In a clear message delivered to the Annual Conference of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget in Washington Tuesday, Bernanke suggested simple math would do well. Regarding the threat of not raising the debt ceiling, he simply said cut it out ...

Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., of the Bipartisan Policy Center and former co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Frances Townsend, former counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, Peter Bergen, New America Foundation scholar, and Evan Kohlmann, ...

Testifying alongside Frances Townsend, former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, and CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, Hamilton said al-Qaida "will almost certainly attempt to avenge his death; however, that attack will not ...

An Iran-watcher source "is someone who wants a [US] visa, who wants money, is an expatriate, or someone with an explicitly anti-Islamic Republic agenda," said Flynt Leverett, a former White House and CIA official now a professor of international ...

The approach, called "crafty" by Joe Mathews, co-author of a book on California's fiscal mess, allows the governor to say he tried. If the vote fails, however, Brown will pick up the scalpel and point to the voters and say, "They made me do it. ...