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Al-Qaeda Is (Almost) Finished | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:30:00 -0400

I recall Peter Bergen, who knows as much about al-Qaeda as any US analyst, predicting that it would cease to exist within the next five years. ...

Gates Signals Troop Increase Likely in Afghanistan | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:06:00 -0400

A prominent critic, Michael Cohen, a defense analyst at the New America Foundation, has been blogging for months a feature called “Afghanistan Mission Creep ... and more »

Obama Faces Rising Anxiety on Afghanistan | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:23:00 -0400

... “More and more people are questioning the underlying assumptions of the whole thing,” observed Michael Cohen, a New York-based scholar with the New America Foundation who began running a feature on a progressive foreign-policy blog, Democracy Arsenal, called Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch. ...

GOP Support for No Child Left Behind Conflicts With Attacks on Sotomayor | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:08:00 -0400

“The No Child Left Behind Act is a civil rights law that triggers government action based on the status of racial groups,” said Michael Dannenberg, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and former senior education counsel to Sen. ...

School of Hock | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:55:00 -0400

Public policy think tank New America Foundation pointed out in an online article Kanjorski's personal interest in keeping this lending powerhouse healthy; earlier this month, it shifted several hundred jobs into his eastern Pennsylvania district. ...

GOP Stimulus Playbook Useless in Health Care Battle | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:03:00 -0500

“Paul Ryan is a real force in that conference,” said Len Nichols, the director of the Healthy Policy Program at the progressive New America Foundation, ...

The Case for Building Schools

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:47:00 -0500

As Congress debates a roughly $825 billion economic stimulus package, many interest groups want to make sure their pet programs get a piece of the action. The education community is no exception.

Various advocates are urging Congress to use the stimulus to fund universal pre-k, expanded after-school programs, education technology, and new teacher compensation packages, among other education initiatives.

Obama Signals Change for HUD | The Washington Independent

Communications — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:58:00 -0500

Ellen Seidman of the New America Foundation, who studies the financial services industry, said friends she knew worked for Cisneros sometimes thought “blow ...

Ellen Seidman in The Washington Independent | 'The Best Explanation so Far for Paulson’s Bailout Behavior'

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:07:00 -0500

The question crossed my mind after New America Foundation’s Ellen Seidman described as “really inept” a news conference on Tuesday by Treasury, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to announce a new program to streamline loan modifications. Seidman said Treasury completely oversold the plan, to make it seem like it would cover more mortgages than the plan actually called for. Then, to make it worse, the Treasury spokesman ran out of the briefing room to avoid answering questions. LINK

Ellen Seidman in The Washington Independent | 'The Expectations Game and the Government’s Mortgage Plan'

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:10:00 -0500

Tuesday night, I checked in with Ellen Seidman of the New America Foundation, who specializes in the financial services industry, to find out her reaction. Seidman, who closely follows loan modifications, said that people don’t really understand that the Fannie and Freddie plan is aimed at heading off foreclosures among prime borrowers — the next segment of homeowners in danger of defaulting on their mortgages. In that sense, the program has some merit. LINK