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Indeed a recent study by Sam Sherraden at the center-left New America Foundation finds that, for the most part, green jobs constitute a negligible factor in ...

The principle funding source for National Public Radio and PBS could be expanded to fill the gap from closing newspapers, argues Steve Coll, a former managing editor of the Washington Post. Congress should up the funding (Coll argues that Congress does ...

"You have major league middle-class anxiety," said Len Nichols, a health economist and director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy think tank in Washington, DC It no longer appears to be an option for ...

Whether it will actually accomplish anything is another matter entirely. Budget watchdog groups are cautiously optimistic. “The summit is the first step toward action,” says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

This "post-industrial strategy," notes author Michael Lind, may be fine for Manhattan and San Francisco, but it's not so appealing in Michigan, Ohio, ...

With its quirky vintage cars and grease-stained floor, pat's garage looks like a typically hip San Francisco auto repair shop. Until you notice that the street outside is overweighted in Toyota Priuses and inside, against the wall, stands a stack of $10,000 batteries made by A123 Systems. Drop one of these 185-pounders into the spare tire well of the Prius, get garage owner Patrick Cadam and partner Nicholas Rothman to tinker with it overnight, and you've got a hybrid that can be plugged into any outlet for… more

The financial crisis is raising serious questions about the future of American power. Can the United States sustain the burdens of global leadership while we dust ourselves off from what looks like a near-knockout blow to our economy?

As Zachary Karabell has argued, we are now seeing a globalization of finance that parallels the globalization of manufacturing that began in earnest in the 1970s. Wall Street is no longer the center of the financial world as wealth flows from our shores to the Gulf and Asia's… more

Does Sarah Palin represent the future of the Republican Party? Well, yes and no.

First, Palin speaks to the right constituencies. For the Republican Party to flourish, it needs to speak to the aspirations of working-class voters in general and to women in particular.

You might say that John McCain is the candidate of the first half-hour of the Today Show--the hard-news gruel that most viewers simply endure as they wait for light entertainment--while Palin represents the softer focus of the rest of the program. That is… more

Monday's embrace of covered bonds by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and senior representatives of the Fed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the country's largest banks to help thaw the U.S. mortgage market is a laudable step, appealing to market proponents and skeptics alike. Introducing covered bonds to the U.S. is a great idea. In fact, covered bonds can help more than just the mortgage market. At its most basic, a covered bond is a bond issued by a bank and backed by… more

Lackluster Legacy On Health Care (Forbes)

"There's going to be a lot of fallout over the decisions they made on SCHIP," says Len Nichols, a fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based think tank New America Foundation and a health care adviser to seven Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns. "[The president's veto] will play out over and over again in Congressional districts, and Republicans will lose seats over it."