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Speaking at the New America Foundation on Tuesday, Gellman, whose day job is as a special projects reporter at the Washington Post, said that such political ...

In the mid-1990s, new CRA regulations and a wave of mergers led to a flurry of CRA activity, but, as noted by the New America Foundation's Ellen Seidman ...

Now that President-elect Barack Obama will be joined by his mother-in-law -- Marian Robinson -- in the White House, the New America Foundation’s David Gray, director of its Workforce and Family Program, is ready and able to give the wonky spin on this unique presidential living situation. “The normal mother-in-law jokes are somewhat mitigated in this instance,” Gray told Yeas & Nays. “Obama will be gone a ton, he has a huge house and he’ll be pretty busy.” Still,… more

Margaret Talbot, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation has recently written in The New Yorker about “Red Sex, Blue Sex.” She states the “The ‘sexual debut’ of an evangelical girl typically occurs just after she turns sixteen.” She reports that a number of social scientists and family scholars have taken up this serious and troublesome social pattern that has obvious ramifications for a lot of good young women, their boyfriends or sexual partners, and the families involved. more

The Rev. David Gray, 39, is director of the Workforce and Family Program at the New America Foundation and is a parish associate at National Presbyterian Church. He has served as a lawyer and policy aid in both the legislative and executive branches of government, and is preparing to release a paper on the family aspects of America’s Next Social Contract.

Do you consider yourself to be of a specific faith? I was born and raised Presbyterian and am ordained and serve as a Presbyterian pastor. I appreciate the Presbyterian value of balance--between head… more

...Advocates of public campaign financing were worried the money would not be there for candidates in future years.

“You are setting a precedent of making this a slush fund to fund your favorite projects,” said Steven Hill, director of Political Reform at the nonprofit New America Foundation... LINK

By Patrick GavinThursday, August 3, 2006

WASHINGTON - In his new book, “10 Steps to Repair American Democracy,” Steven Hill, who directs the New America Foundation’s Political Reform Program, argues that what ails American democracy can be fixed by nothing short of a large overhaul of the United States’ antiquated system of government. Hill lays out 10 ways to improve both our government and the process by which we elect its representatives. Reforms range from having the… more

Since the 2004 elections, many liberals and Democrats have been debating "why Kerry lost" and, more broadly, "why the Democrats keep losing ground." Much of the debate has focused on the never-ending seesaw of "swing voters vs. base voters" or cultural/religious issues.

But what has been completely missing from the conversation is the fact that even when the Democrats win more votes than Republicans, they don't necessarily win more seats. That's true in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, and… more