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For seriously predicting that the United States will break into six parts in June or July of 2010, Igor Panarin has suddenly become a Russian state-media celebrity. Hardly a day goes by without another interview or two for the KGB-trained, Kremlin-backed senior analyst. The clamor in Russia for his ideas is growing, he says.

The New America Foundation holds a discussion on how to protect homeowners and guide policymakers.  ...

"He is one of the few guys I know in academia who also has a practical and commercial side," said Terry Tamminen, an energy and environment expert and ...

... the government has put up which no one can index," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said during a recent presentation at the New America Foundation. ...

Nina Burleigh The Bin Ladens, by Steve Coll (Penguin). A fascinating panorama of a great family, presented within the context of the 9/11 drama. ...

... the ongoing operation of HHS while he leads the health reform discussions," said Len Nichols, director of health policy at the New America Foundation. ...

Yesterday, representatives from technology and telecommunications companies, labor unions and public interest groups frequently at odds with one another agreed to provide the next president with a roadmap for how to accomplish those goals. (Click here for the coalition's call to action and list of coalition members). Original article

Nancy Nichols made a deathbed promise to her sister that she would investigate the toxic history of their hometown, Waukegan, Ill., on the shore of Lake Michigan. A small town once known as the "Coho Capital of the World," Waukegan was a bucolic place for the girls to grow up, with happy summer days spent splashing in the lake. That was before the Environmental Protection Agency designated the town as the location of three separate Superfund sites. Beginning in the 1950s, the Outboard Marine Corporation, maker of… more

"Any stimulus package has to have a strong mechanism to develop a plan to reduce the debt once the economy has stabilized," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. LINK

In a time of uncertainty, upheaval and catastrophic risk, there's nothing like a missile silo.

You may have no idea what your 401(k) will be worth, or your house, or whether your kids will be able to go to college. Eighty feet below the plains of North Dakota, however, these concerns magically evaporate.

Take a slow, loud elevator cage down into the depths of Oscar Zero, as it is called -- the launch control center for what used to be a bevy of Minuteman III nuclear missiles aimed… more