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Parag Khanna of the New America Foundation interviews with Good Morning America. ... Original Video

"These are the most significant demonstrations in the history of the Islamic Republic over the past 30 years," said Afshin Molavi, a former Reuters journalist who is now a scholar at the New America Foundation, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit, ...

Michael A. Cohen, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, said that in the short term -- the next six months or so -- there probably is not going to be an enormous impact. "You've got places that obviously rely pretty heavily on ...

In California, lower paid illegals have harvested, cooked in restaurants, bussed tables, worked construction and helped remodel homes or landscape. Tomas Jimenez, Ph.D., is an Irvine fellow and a sociology associate professor at Stanford University. He studies immigration trends. "We have less of an ability to afford these services. Because of that they go back and so at some point the number we will need will find its own level," says Jimenez. LINK to video

Bush's veto of the immensely popular SCHIP bill heated the spending and taxes debate among our nation's political leaders this week.

ABC News covered the President's decision, and also looked at the overarching topic of America's fiscal problems in an interview with Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas.

MacGuineas said that "SCHIP is kind of an odd choice to be the poster child of fiscal responsiblity... There are so many parts of the budget -- through out… more

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., floated the idea Friday of giving every child born in America a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home...

"I'm pleased that Sen. Clinton keeps talking about 'baby bonds,' whether $500 or $5,000 at birth," said Ray Boshara, the vice president of the New America Foundation.

Boshara, who has worked with Clinton's policy staff on the concept, did not see the different dollar figure floated… more

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson on Thursday laid out his plan for a dramatic shift in the way the U.S. uses energy, proposing to all but end the country's reliance on oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2040. Invoking President Kennedy's call for the Apollo space program, he said the nation needs a "man-on-the-moon" effort to develop technologies that will cut energy costs and halt global warming."I am issuing a call to… more

ABC News' Matthew Zavala Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., offered a glimpse of what she learned from her recent trip to Iowa in a speech before the New America Foundation Wednesday in Washington, DC.  "What I hear from Americans is frustration, some discouragement, a sense that we are not living up to our potential," the 2008 presidential hopeful said.Joining into the discussion about the need for politicians to work together to solve America's problems--something that her… more

ABC's KGO-TV featured David Lesher, director of New America's California Program, in a recent piece on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA).

Excerpts from the transcript appear below. For the complete article, and to watch the news clip, please visit the ABC News website.

KGO - State lawmakers got an earful today from Governor Schwarzenegger as he unveiled his plans for the new term. While new legislators are still learning their way around the capitol, the governor made it clear he thinks… more