New America in the News: 2013

Strikes have also been launched against suspected Islamist militants in the African country of Mali and in the Philippines, said Rosa Brooks, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Ten years ago, the use of drones in targeted killings was ...

“Smithfield embodies a command-and-control form of meat production that now dominates,” wrote columnist Christopher Leonard in the Journal Star, a newspaper based in Lincoln, Neb. “Central planners analyze market trends and decide when to cut or ...

Mark Hertsgaard from The Nation is skeptical of the film's assumptions about nuclear energy being the most viable zero-emitting source. He points to wind and solar as a fast-growing industry and energy source, but also incorporates a historical ...

The New America Foundation in Washington D.C. researches policies on asset limits, and says that Kansas is one of ten states that has kept its asset limits that low, which is half of what the foundation estimates families should be able to have to weather unexpected expenses. In general, they find that these requirements discourage families from saving money and ultimately means low-income families rely on public assistances longer than they would if they were more freely able to build wealth.

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Mason's research is consistent with Anne-Marie Slaughter's comments in the Atlantic last summer, describing her decision to leave a position as a high-level official at the State Department in part, she says, because of the needs of her family. “Women ...

As Mark Hertsgaard explains in the Nation, the environmentalists in the film are generally either sheep in wolves' clothing or sui generis: The five converts featured in Pandora's Promise speak for themselves as individuals; they don't represent large ...

“The technologies usable in Tehran or Phnom Penh are just as usable in New York or Washington,” said Sascha Meinrath, who heads a New America Foundation program helping users maintain secure and private communications in totalitarian countries.

Liza Mundy (left) discusss the economics of marriage with Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy at the University of Michigan and her partner Justin Wolfers, economist and professor at the New America Foundation on June 12. Stevenson was ...

Kevin Carey, who writes a monthly column on college reform for the Chronicle of Higher Education, argued that the higher education model is outmoded and irreparably broken. He foresees a major disruption in the way colleges and universities operate, ...