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Reihan Salam on WBUR | 'Reinventing the GOP'

Communications — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:43:00 -0400

New America in the News:

Young conservatives Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam are the toast of Republican thought circles right now. But their call to Republican revival is also a broadside.

Bush-era crony capitalism and government neglect, they charge, have pushed the USA toward a Latin American model of rich and poor and nothing in between.

If the Grand Old Party wants a comeback, they argue, it's going to have to do something serious for American workers. But something conservative.

This hour, On Point: "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class" -- they say -- "and Save the American Dream." LINK to audio

Shannon Brownlee on WBUR Boston Radio | 'Health Care Costs'

Communications — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:15:00 -0500

New America in the News:

Real Issues: Health Care Costs (On Point/WBUR Boston Radio)

Listen to the online audio from the show featuring Shannon Brownlee, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. ...

There are issues that get a big workout on the presidential campaign trail: big headlines, big applause lines. And there are a raft of really big issues that barely get touched: from defense spending, to American deficits, to the bottom line of American health care -- health care costs. Other nations spend less and live longer. American health care spending has doubled in the last decade, but the care's not twice as good. ...

'On Point' Interviews Flynt Leverett on the Politics of Nuclear Intelligence

Communications — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:45:00 -0500

New America in the News:

'On Point' radio program interviewed Flynt Leverett on Iran and the politics of nuclear intelligence. Check out the On Point website:

When America's spy agencies issued a National Intelligence Estimate two weeks ago stating that Iran shuttered its nuclear weapons program in 2003, it was a blockbuster like few can recall.

The sigh of relief in Washington and around the world was audible. Only recently, President Bush had said a nuclear Iran might ignite "World War III."

But behind the scenes, among intelligence and foreign policy experts, the reaction is more complicated. No one quite knows what to believe, or what the effect on U.S. policy should be. ...

To listen to the audio, please follow this link.

WBUR Radio Interviews Peter Bergen on Increase of Terrorism

Communications — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:40:00 -0500

New America in the News:

A new study says the war in Iraq is creating terrorists out of foreign fighters who will then pose a new threat when they return to their home countries. The study comes to the conclusion that Iraq War critics have been making for some time: the war is causing terrorism rather then stopping it.

We speak with Peter Bergen, a research fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who co-authors the study...

To listen to the interview, please visit the WBUR Radio website.

To watch the video of "The Iraq Effect" event in which the report was released, please click here.

Afshin Molavi Discusses Khatami's U.S. Visit on WBUR

Communications — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:09:00 -0400

New America in the News:

No Iranian of former Iranian President Khatami's stature has traveled outside of New York in the United States since followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized the American embassy in Iran in 1979, taking 52 American hostages for more than a year.

Why is Khatami in the U.S., and what does he represent? For some answers we turn to Afshin Molavi, author of "The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom."

To listen to the interview, please visit the Boston radio website, WBUR.