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Joel Garreau identified The Nine Nations of North America in his 1981 portrait of the country's economic and cultural divisions. And historian David Hackett Fischer proposed later that decade, in Albion's Seed, that four distinct British migrations had ...

The New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC, suggests a way out of the spiraling problems of overburdened community clinics and state governments alike. The personal health of poor Americans and the financial ...

Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion, suggests meanwhile that “group fetishism” has led us to confuse quantity with quality in online activism. After all, it's easy to be “engaged” in politics when all you have to do is “like” a candidate or her ...

... Jaisinghani was speaking at a New America Foundation event ambitiously mulling the question, “Can Technology Save Foreign Aid?” Apparently, there is an app for that. Jamie Zimmerman, the director of New America’s Global Assets Project, and Henry Jackelen, a United Nations Development Programme official, unveiled a paper outlining exactly what such a cell-phone-assisted cash transfer program would look like. ...

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... their propaganda ministries and security forces to massage public opinion, keep tabs on dissidents and ensure that populations stay docile and distracted, as Evgeny Morozov argues in The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom? ...

For many older Americans with advanced and incurable cancer, where and how they die — at home with their family or sedated in an ICU with a tube down their throat — may not be based on their final preferences and wishes, but on customs, care patterns, and even the financial incentives and number of beds in the hospital they and their loved ones entrusted with their care.

“You don’t go to a restaurant and order a meal and then only get half of it,” said Benjamin Lennett, a senior policy analyst with the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative. ...

What if those “death panels” were actually good for your health?

The death panels, of course, don’t exist; they were the product of overheated political imaginations amid an overheated debate about health care reform. But palliative care does exist — and despite the distortions of last summer’s debate, it doesn’t mean “pulling the plug on Grandma.” (Or Grandpa for that matter, although he seems to have been neglected in the national brouhaha about death panels.)

“For a group that reports to be market-based,” he went on to a room of education insiders at the New America Foundation, “what is a better measure of market ...

“I have no idea what brings people in, who it is that's willing to play a budget simulator,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the CRFB. ...