Christian Science Monitor

Maya MacGuineas in the Christian Science Monitor | 'US Stares at a $1 Trillion Deficit. How Bad is That?'

Articles — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:57:00 -0400

New America in the News:
"There are times when you need to run up the deficit and this is one of them," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group in Washington that came up with the $1 trillion estimate. "But we ran them up when we did not need to, and we have no plan to stop running them up. We have become serial deficit spenders." LINK

Peter Bergen in the Christian Science Monitor | 'Iraqi Insurgents Forced Underground'

Communications — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:00:00 -0400

New America in the News:
"If [AQI members] were smart, they would say this requires kind of a strategic rethink and we need to be a more touchy-feely Al Qaeda in the future. I think there's been some very mild evidence that Al Qaeda in Iraq has done that, but not enough to really bring it back to the position where it was in 2006," says Peter Bergen, a prominent Al Qaeda expert and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute in Washington. LINK

Sascha Meinrath in Christian Science Monitor | 'Municipal Wi-Fi Thrives – On a Small Scale'

Communications — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:05:00 -0400

New America in the News:

Just ask St. Cloud, Fla. This central Florida community of 28,000 residents commissioned and now owns a truly citywide Wi-Fi network at no additional cost to residents. For more than a year, it has been the only town in the country able to offer 100 percent service availability, according to a study released earlier this year by the independent wireless testing company Novarum. The survey dubbed St. Cloud’s $3 million network the best metro Wi-Fi in North America – ahead of Mountain View, Calif., where locally grown Internet giant Google provides free wireless.

“The really amazing thing about St. Cloud is that more than two-thirds of households have signed up,” says Sascha Meinrath, research director for the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation in Washington. “National cable and DSL companies aim for … the 15 to 20 percent realm.” LINK

Reihan Salam in the Christian Science Monitor | 'Is the Republican Party in Peril?'

Communications — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:26:00 -0400

New America in the News:
One of the most talked-about books of the genre is “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.” The authors, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, young editors at Atlantic Monthly, assert that while the GOP has learned to speak to the cultural concerns of working-class whites, it has failed to address their economic unease. They propose a mix of wage subsidies for the working poor, a bigger child tax credit, and steps toward a universal healthcare system rooted in the free market. LINK

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget in Christian Science Monitor | "U.S. Deficit at Record High and Rising"

Communications — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:13:00 -0400

New America in the News:

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. . .At an April 2 round table hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin suggested that reducing the federal budget "is not an end in itself," according to a summary of the event published by CRFB. Rather than focusing on red ink, a president should talk about all the important issues related to the budget, including the need to protect US security and help American families, he said. . .