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... We turned to Dr. Randa Slim, a research fellow at the New America Foundation, to learn more about the make-up of the Syrian opposition and what it will take for them to turn into a more credible force. ...

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According to a tally by the nonpartisan New America Foundation, since 2004 there have been more than 260 US drone strikes in Pakistan, which the foundation estimates killed between 1600 and 2500 people. The strikes have generated strong protests from ...

Phillip Longman and Julia Whitty to discuss the challenges of population change today, ...

I also have my own stake in this report, which cites research that I've conducted with colleagues at the Center for Social Media and the New America Foundation -- see the annotations in the embedded version of the report below for some highlights. ...

Since 2009, New America Foundation has worked with Native Public Media, which supports and advocates for Native American media outlets, to help tribal communities take advantage of new media platforms. In January, the organizations formalized their ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Bin Laden biographer Steve Coll takes a dim view of Ayman al-Zawahiri's chances of success as Al Qaeda's likely new leader. Coll, the author of The Bin Ladens and Ghost Wars, told FRONTLINE correspondent Martin ...

Energy policy expert Lisa Margonelli is the author of a book about the oil supply chain, “Oil On the Brain: Petroleum’s Long Strange Trip to Your Tank.” In this interview, Alison Stewart speaks to Margonelli about U.S. energy policy in the wake of the BP spill. ...

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Bestselling author Parag Khanna is hard to pin down. He’s raced 8,000 miles from London to Mongolia in the Mongolia Charity Rally, served in the foreign policy advisory group for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and he’s been dubbed a global futurist and an adventurer-scholar.

Jeffrey Brown discusses whether protests there will lead to reforms with the New America Foundation's Afshin Molavi and US Institute of Peace's Robin Wright. ...

Many news organizations have a love-hate relationship with the Internet. While the abundance of free, online news has helped wreak havoc on the industry, the Internet itself has created incredible possibilities for news outlets to expand their reach and spark innovation. Thanks to the Internet, audiences can contribute to reporting and news in ways that would have been unimaginable a generation ago. Even the most venerable papers are experimenting with crowdsourced journalism.