Financial Times

... funding academic institutions like Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, advocacy groups like Public Knowledge and even the New America Foundation, a think tank where Google's executive chairman and former chief executive, Eric Schmidt, ...

By backing Twitter's previous, freewheeling approach, “venture capitalists in Silicon Valley were underwriting free speech around the world – it was great, but I don't think it was sustainable”, said Evgeny Morozov, an expert on internet censorship.

Civil rights activists such as Rebecca MacKinnon, a New America Foundation fellow, compare this to censorship in China and others claim it would “break” the architecture of the web. If so, the internet is already broken in the UK, which has blocked ...

“The largest squeezed group today are people with high-school diplomas working in the service sector,” says Michael Lind, author of a forthcoming economic history of America. “Most of them are living in the suburbs and watching TV. ...

This year proved a tipping point for China’s approach to the world. The confluence of Europe’s debt crisis and America’s contracting defence budget has created rising expectations that China will shoulder ever greater power burdens for international stability. No longer can it keep a low profile in international strategic and economic affairs. Could it join America as a world policeman sooner than expected?

Steve Clemons, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly, credits him for standing up to the Republican establishment on issues such as defence and gay rights. “He is not a cookie-cutter conservative,” he said. “People who think he is simple don't get ...

Usually, activists who appear on the site under false names go unnoticed among the throngs of other users, says Rebecca MacKinnon at the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank. But when a particular pseudonym becomes influential, ...

“Migration is the public face of globalisation”, says Parag Khanna, an expert on globalisation at the New America Foundation, a think-thank. “It has long been a sensitive national political issue, but it is now going to become a geopolitical and ...

Maya MacGuineas, the president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says there is simply not enough information to make a judgment about the work of the supercommittee so far. “ I don't think we can set benchmarks without ...

Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government official who is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, agreed: “American aid to the Palestinians is not a favour to them,” he said. “It's largely because the structures that are kept in ...