Some people, like Columbia law professor Tim Wu, are tempted to think that even though Pirate Bay is still functioning, the conviction proves that as a business model, movie piracy is dead in the water. Last year's box-office figures went through the ...
Former Cal EPA Chief Terry Tamminen, who is profiled in Eco Barons, puts the cost at about $10 a gallon. We ignore this because "the argument of hidden costs" has so far prevailed in our discourse, skewing the debate, focusing on the price at the pump, ...
Peter Bergen, a writer on al Qaeda, said: "UK officials may not say it openly, but they feel privately that they have made a dent in the 'home grown' trend. And they may be right: There have been many prosecutions and arrests in recent years. ...
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli official now at the New America Foundation think tank in Washington, said that Obama's reference to the US-hosted Annapolis conference was also a form of "push back" against the new Israeli government. ...
Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, agreed that the overhaul should include an individual mandate. He also said a government plan should be among the insurance options available to people. Continued...
Sascha Meinrath, a technology expert at the public interest group New America Foundation, said profits will be a byproduct of the program, not the end-goal of this stimulus funding. "We clearly don't want another subsidy for carriers that have failed ...
Clinton will also see defence minister Ehud Barak of the Labour Party. "Given the situation in local politics on the ground, she has to be in a listening mode," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington. Continued...
"It won't be smooth sailing," predicted Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which wants tough controls to bring down deficit spending and reform expensive programs like Social Security and the Medicare ...
In the words of Steve Clemons, a Latin America expert at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, Cuba is “the lowest hanging ripe fruit on America’s tree of foreign policy options. Change is easy there -- and overdue. ...
"There is a mood that prevails in political circles in Israel that this is not a time to make concessions but to take a hard line." Daniel Levy, a senior ...
