Experts Guide: By Name

Schwartz Senior Fellow

Peter Beinart is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York. He is also Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast, and a Contributor to Time. His first book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals--And Only Liberals--Can Win the War… more

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative

Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, and the author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden ( 2001), which has been translated into 18 languages and The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda's Leader (2006). Both books were… more

Senior Research Fellow, Asset Building Program and Vice President

Ray Boshara is Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank. Until July 2009, he was the director of the Asset Building Program, and launched the Next Social Contract and College Savings Initiatives at New America as well.

Schwartz Fellow

Senior Research Fellow, Economic Growth Program

Shannon Brownlee is a nationally known writer and essayist whose book, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer was named the best economics book of 2007 byNew York Times economics correspondent, David Leonhardt, and is being used by legislators and policy makers to craft health care… more

Vice President and Director, Wireless Future Program

As Vice President of the New America Foundation, Michael Calabrese directs the Wireless Future Program and helps to guide the Foundation's work related to retirement security and the Next Social Contract Initiative. Previously, Mr. Calabrese served as Director of Domestic Policy Programs at the Center for National Policy, as General… more

Schwartz Senior Fellow

Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program

Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America's interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America's democratic way of life. He… more

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Co-Director, Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative

Michael A. Cohen is a Senior Research Fellow with the American Strategy Program and Co-Director with the Privitization of Foriegn Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation. He is also the author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America… more

President

Steve Coll is president of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper's managing editor from 1998 to 2004.

Director, Asset Building Program

Reid Cramer is Director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, where he leads the program's policy research activities. Previously, he served as the program’s Research Director and as a Co-Director of the New America Foundation's Next Social Contract Initiative, an effort to examine the delivery of… more

Schwartz Senior Fellow

Deputy Director, American Strategy Program

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Co-Director, Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative
Maria Figueroa Küpçü specializes in the development of international advocacy campaigns, with particular expertise in stakeholder engagement in the global policymaking process. As a senior director at the market research and consulting firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, she guided presidential and parliamentary campaigns in South Korea, Ukraine, Serbia, Bermuda,… more

Irvine Fellow
As a California-based Fellow at the New America Foundation, T.A. Frank writes about law, criminal justice, and labor. With a robust technology sector, busy ports, and a changing economy, California is faced with new sorts of crime, such as terrorism, cybercrime, and financial fraud. Mr. Frank will explore issues such… more

Schwartz Fellow

Schwartz Senior Fellow
Tim Golden is an investigative journalist who writes about legal policy in the fight against terrorism and other issues related to the treatment of terror suspects. He is on leave from The New York Times, where he is a senior writer and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine.… more

Director, Workforce and Family Program

Rev. Dr. David E. Gray directs the New America Foundation's Workforce and Family Program, which researches and develops solutions to social, economic and family policy issues.

Director, California Program

Leif Wellington Haase is Director of New America's California Program, which aims to improve the state's public debate by sponsoring a wide range of research, writing, and events on issues of critical importance to the future of California. His primary responsibilities include promoting the work of New America's programs and… more

Director, Arms and Security Initiative

William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. The project serves as a resource for journalists, policymakers, and citizen's organizations on the issues of weapons proliferation, the economics of military spending, and alternative approaches to national security strategy.

Schwartz Fellow

Christopher Hayes is the Washington D.C. Editor of The Nation. Since 2002, he has been reporting and writing on politics, economics, and labor for a wide variety of independent publications. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian, and The Chicago Reader. From… more

Director, Political Reform Program

Steven Hill is a political writer and director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation, which seeks to develop the best opportunities for reform, educate opinion leaders and the public about electoral alternatives, and encourage the formation of a broad-based coalition.

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Director, Global Governance Initiative

Senior Research Fellow, Economic Growth Program

Joel Kotkin is an internationally recognized authority on global economic, political, and social trends. He is the author of six books, including, The City: A Global History (Modern Library, 2005), as well as the bestseller, The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2002).… more

Schwartz Fellow

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative
Flynt Leverett is a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and global energy issues. From 1992 to 2003, he had a distinguished career in the U.S. government, serving as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, Middle East Expert… more

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program and Co-Director, Middle East Task Force

Daniel Levy is a Senior Research Fellow with the American Strategy Program and Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, and he is also a Senior Fellow and Director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation. During the Barak Government, he worked in the Israeli Prime… more

Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative

Jeffrey G. Lewis is Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation. The Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative seeks to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international security and renew the fundamental bargain contained in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The author of Minimum Means… more

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program

Anatol Lieven, a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously covered Central Europe for The Financial Times; Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for The Times (London), and India as a freelance journalist. He was also an editor at the International Institute for Strategic… more

Senior Research Fellow and Policy Director, Economic Growth Program

Michael Lind is a Senior Research Fellow and Policy Director of New America's Economic Growth Program. He is the author, with Ted Halstead, of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (Doubleday, 2001). He is also the author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover… more

Senior Research Fellow, Economic Growth Program, and Research Director, Next Social Contract Initiative

Phillip Longman is a Senior Research Fellow, currently concentrating on health care policy, including delivery system reform, environmental, and nutritional factors affecting public health. His work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Der Spiegel, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The New… more

Senior Research Fellow, Economic Growth Program

Director, Fiscal Policy Program & President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

As President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which is housed at the New America Foundation, and the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program, Maya MacGuineas oversees the Foundation's efforts to bring accountability to the budget process, address the challenges presented by the nation's underfunded entitlements programs, and… more

Senior Research Fellow, California Program and Director, Energy Policy Initiative
Lisa Margonelli writes about the global culture and economy of energy. Her book about the oil supply chain, Oil On the Brain: Petroleum's Long Strange Trip to Your Tank, was published by Nan Talese/Doubleday in 2007. Recognized as one of the 25 Notable Books of 2007 by the American Library… more

Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program

Andrés Martinez directs New America's Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program, which seeks to identify and support the next generation of American public policy scholars and writers.

Mr. Martinez was the Editorial Page Editor of the Los Angeles Times for nearly three years, beginning in September 2004, and also presided over the… more

Irvine Senior Fellow

Joe Mathews, a fourth-generation Californian, writes about his home state and its politics, media, labor, and real estate. He is the author of The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy (PublicAffairs, 2006), an account of Governor Schwarzenegger's first term and his use of ballot measures as governing tools. Before joining… more

Schwartz Fellow

Megan McArdle is the Business and Economics editor for The Atlantic.  Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, the New York Sun, The New York Post, Reason magazine, and Salon.com.  Ms. McArdle holds a Bachelors in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and… more

Schwartz Fellow

Irvine Fellow

Douglas McGray writes about social and international issues, technology, and culture for Public Radio International's This American Life, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Wired, The Washington Post, Mother Jones and The Economist. His work has been profiled on the cover of Time Asia… more

Senior Research Fellow, Education Policy Program and Workforce and Family Program

As a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation, Sara Mead conducts research and writes about early childhood and elementary and secondary education, with a particular focus on state and federal policy issues including preschool, PreK-3rd education reform, the No Child Left Behind Act, federal education funding, charter schools… more

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program

Afshin Molavi is the author of Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran (Norton, 2002), which was nominated for the Thomas Cook literary travel book of the year and described by Foreign Affairs as “a brilliant tableau of today’s Iran.” A former Dubai-based correspondent for the Reuters news agency and a regular… more

Director, Health Policy Program

Len Nichols, a highly respected healthcare economist, directs the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to expand health insurance coverage to all Americans while reining in costs and improving the efficiency of the overall health care system. Before joining New America, Dr. Nichols was the Vice… more

Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Growth Fellow

Dr. Thomas Palley is the Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Growth Fellow. Prior to joining New America, Dr. Palley was the Chief Economist with the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He was Director of the Open Society Institute's Globalization Reform Project, and before that he was Assistant Director of Public… more

Schwartz Senior Fellow

Director, Global Strategic Finance Initiative

Doug Rediker is currently the Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation. This initiative focuses on the relationship between global finance, capital flows, and foreign policy, with a specific emphasis on the role of the U.S. in a multi-polar financial world. In 2007, he returned… more

Schwartz Fellow

Reihan Salam writes on politics, culture, and technology, and was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic, a producer for NBC News, a junior editor and editorial researcher at The New York Times, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. He is the co-author of… more

Schwartz Fellow

Nicholas Schmidle writes about the intersection of culture, religion and politics abroad. He has

Director, Media and Communications

As Director of Media and Communications, Troy K. Schneider is responsible for the organization's public presence -- ensuring that New America is visible in traditional media outlets, an innovator with its own online efforts, and an active player in the larger media community.

Director, Economic Growth Program

Sherle Schwenninger directs the New America Foundation's Economic Growth Program, and the Global Middle Class Initiative. He is also the former director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program.

Senior Research Fellow, Asset Building Program

Senior Research Fellow, Asset Building Program

Fred M. Ssewamala is Assistant Professor of Social Work in the Columbia University School of Social Work, and a Faculty Associate with the Center for Social Development at Washington University (St. Louis). Dr. Ssewamala designed programs for poverty alleviation and community development, with an emphasis on asset-development initiatives, for the… more

Senior Research Fellow, California and Asset Building Programs

Anne Stuhldreher is a Senior Research Fellow with the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation. She writes about social and economic issues for outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and academic journals. Previously, Anne was a Senior Policy Advisor to California Governor… more

Cullman Senior Fellow and Director, Climate Policy Program

Terry Tamminen is the Cullman Senior Fellow for Climate Change and Director of the Climate Policy Program at the New America Foundation. The goal of this program is to build a national response to climate change through the establishment of state and local action plans.

Schwartz Fellow
Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at Wired Magazine and the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, which Henry Holt published in September 2009.

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, and Director, Outsourcing National Security Initiative

Senior Research Fellow, California Program

Micah Weinberg is Senior Research Fellow for the California Program at the New America Foundation.  In this capacity, he works with the national Health Policy Program to inform government officials and policymakers about New America's proposed reforms to health financing and delivery systems. His specific focus is on state health… more

Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program

Ted Widmer is Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, one of America's premier centers for research into early American history. From 2001 to 2006, he was the inaugural director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, where… more

Director, College Savings Initiative

As Director of the College Savings Initiative at the New America Foundation, Ms. Williams develops and promotes progressive policy enhancements to 529 college savings plans in order to facilitate participation by low to moderate income families and thereby support greater access to higher education.

Schwartz Senior Fellow

Robert Wright is Editor in Chief of Bloggingheads.tv and the author of The Moral Animal (Pantheon, 1994), Nonzero (Pantheon, 2000), and The Evolution of God (Little, Brown, 2009). He is a contributing editor for The New Republic and a contributor to Time and Slate. He has also written… more

Schwartz Fellow

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. He is the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford U. Press, 2006). Mr. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine and was listed as one of… more