New America in the News: 2012

The summit is hosted by Pete Peterson, who has staked $1 billion of his Wall Street fortune on a foundation dedicated to educating the public on the perils of the deficit. Peterson's events tend to attract many of the same people time after time, including a number of people who are full-time, professional deficit hawks like Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Bob Bixby of the Concord Coalition.

In Pakistan alone, the New America Foundation reports US forces have launched 297 drone strikes killing at least 1800 people, three to four hundred of whom were not even combatants. Other investigative journalists report four to eight hundred civilians ...

If Congress fails to act, the resulting absence of tax cuts and presence of tax hikes could lead to about $7 trillion being taken out of the economy and thrusting us into a recession almost instantly according to Maya MacGuineas, president of the ...

During a recent visit to New York, I had an extended breakfast meeting with controversial author Peter Beinart, who in recent months has received enormous media exposure as the most prominent far Left critic of Israel in the US Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, ...

It's that, as Pasadena budget watchdog Joe Mathews pointed out on Monday, we're a state that sends a lot of what taxpayers send to the Capitol back to localities - to the cities in which we live. And California, compared with the rest of the nation, ...

If Congress fails to act, the resulting absence of tax cuts and presence of tax hikes could lead to about $7 trillion being taken out of the economy and thrusting us into a recession almost instantly according to Maya MacGuineas, president of the ...

According to the Washington Free Beacon, the meeting included author Peter Beinart, who has become a lightning rod since publishing “The Crisis of Zionism” and a New York Times op-ed entitled “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements.

Host Rachel Martin speaks with former CIA official Philip Mudd about the British undercover agent who helped thwart terrorists and the newest version of the underwear bomb.

"It gives citizens a chance to see the kind of choices that will be necessary to fix the budget problems we face," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "It's really hard to do — getting the debt down to a ...