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“Its hard to see what is so controversial about friends not letting friends drive drunk,'' said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator now at the Washington-based New America Foundation who is one the founding figures of J Street. ...

Great leadership — at times — must be a rather introverted endeavor.

But the pace with which we live and the constant bombardment of information often inhibit the kind of pensive retreat that is key to great leadership. It's true not only for presidents and prime ministers, but also for many who lead in smaller ways.

During his 2 1/2 years in office, US drone strikes have killed nearly 1000 militants, compared with fewer than 300 during Bush's eight years, according to an analysis by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. ...

As Peter Beinart explained in a New York Review of Books article last year that is still reverberating today, when pollster Frank Luntz interviewed young American Jews to find out why they didn't feel more connected to Israel, he found that the “only ...

... “While he is supportive of the administration, Kerry has become the conscience,’’ said Stephen Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. ...

Micah Weinberg, a health policy specialist at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank, said Republicans will have a difficult time rolling back the expansion of Medicaid to insure more low-income Americans, and subsidies to help people pay for private insurance — elements that lie at the heart of the law. ...

Steve Clemons, of the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, said that in the past, Romney "was trying to out-neo-con the neo-cons," referring to a group known as neo-conservatives who were influential in the administration of former President George W. Bush. ...

But in his sardonic, powerful new book, “The Net Delusion," Evgeny Morozov rips this idea to shreds. He shows how the world's autocrats have learned to love the Internet. Nations like Iran, China, and Venezuela now embrace it as a tool of propaganda and public surveillance. ...

Ted Sorensen, who died early last week, was legendary among all of us in the speechwriting fraternity for the extraordinary body of work he crafted with President John F. Kennedy. Even the Republicans pilfered from him, and inside the Clinton White House, he represented a gold standard that we constantly strove to reach, with imperfect results (it’s harder than it looks).

Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu tells the tale in fine style in his entertaining, insightful new book. Wu's got plenty of material to work with. ...