In the News: Quotes and Media Appearances

Panel Sees No Need for A-Bomb Upgrade | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:48:00 -0500

Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nuclear specialist at the New America Foundation, a Washington research group, said in a blog posting that the report “should drive a ...

Where's the Clean Energy? | The Nation.

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:00 -0500

"You can't really look at renewables in a vacuum, though," says Terry Tamminen, a climate change expert at the New America Foundation. ...

Obama's New Push for Preschool for At-risk Children | Christian Science Monitor

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:26:00 -0500

But the big investments haven't necessarily been done within a meaningful framework, says Sara Mead, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation ...

ReidCare Remix | Slate

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:02:00 -0500

Len Nichols, the economist who dreamed up this "level playing field" variation on the public option, says CBO's wrong—the public option won't charge higher ...

Small Cable, Online Video Companies Warn of Anticompetition in Comcast, NBC Merger | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:35:00 -0500

That's when all worst things happen," said Tim Wu, a professor at the Columbia University School of Law who is writing a book that chronicles the history of ...

Little Behind Obama's Tough Mideast Talk | AFP

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:08:00 -0500

Amjad Atallah, an analyst with the New America Foundation, said the latest U.S. remarks show "the administration has decided to draw a rhetorical line in the ...

Obama's Iran Strategy Hits Great Wall of China

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:32:00 -0500

"The Obama administration's Iran policy is in free fall and bordering on implosion," says Flynt Leverett, a fellow at the New America Foundation and a member of President George W. Bush's National Security Council. ... Original Article

Report: Increasing Number Of Retired Military Officers Are Now Well-Paid Consultants | USA Today

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:31:00 -0500

"This setup invites abuse," says Janine Wedel, a George Mason University public policy professor and author of a forthcoming book ...

The Price of Failure in Afghanistan | Reuters

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:12:00 -0500

Steve Coll, journalist and president of the New America Foundation, sets out four consequences of failure in Afghanistan in a blog in The New Yorker, ...

President Obama's Appeal Greater Overseas? | amNY

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:07:00 -0500

Americans would have been happy with a handshake, equal footing,” said Steven Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. ...

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Kicks into High Gear | The Nation.

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0500

On Friday, FCIC Chairman Phil Angelides was in DC to deliver a keynote address at a New America Foundation conference on financial reforms, jobs, housing, ...

The Rural Brain Drain | American Conservative Magazine

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:52:00 -0500

Last Thursday's event at the New America Foundation on the “rural brain drain” billed itself as examining a “major policy problem that has largely escaped ...

Pro-Choicers Backing Down? Fat Chance | The Nation.

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:56:00 -0500

"If you want to rebuild the American welfare state," Peter Beinart writes in the Daily Beast, "there is no alternative" than for Democrats to abandon ...

An Anxious Wait in Afghanistan | Asia Times Online

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:01:00 -0500

Noted terrorism analyst Peter Bergen stated at a New York-based think-tank conference dealing with counter-insurgency strategy in 2008 that it was very ...

This Isn't What We Hoped For | Indianapolis Star

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:57:00 -0500

But Mayer and the nonprofit New America Foundation report that more US drone strikes were launched in Pakistan during the first nine months of the Obama ...

War Unchecked | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:54:00 -0500

... strikes in Pakistan this year and killed, besides Mr. Mehsud, somewhere between 200 and 300 people, according to a study by the New America Foundation. ...

Mideast Political Uncertainty Stymies Peace Process | NewsHour

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:31:00 -0500

"They invested in it and explored the best way to go about it," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator who now directs the Middle East Policy ...

Dodd's Financial Reform “Goes Too Far,” Says New America Foundation Director | Talk Radio News Service

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:09:00 -0500

Anne Vorce, director of the New America Foundation's Fiscal Roadmap Project, says she thinks that the financial reform plan proposed by Sen. ...

Death Knell Drones for al Qa'eda | National (UAE)

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:08:00 -0500

The most authoritative assessment of the attacks, by the New America Foundation, estimates that about one third of more than 1000 people killed were ...

My Father, the Terrorist | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:07:00 -0500

In "The Bin Ladens," Steve Coll's history of the family, Najwa and Omar are minor characters. And so they would have remained but for the decision -- not ...