New America in the News: 2013

For proof, see the demoralizing report released this week by Stephen Burd of the New America Foundation on the state of financial aid in higher ed. It documents the obscene prices some of the poorest undergraduates are asked to pay at hundreds of ...

As Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, told Charlie Rose in a recent interview about the Boston bombers, “I don't necessarily think these are real jihadi terrorists. I think they are angry kids. … They may have ...

“Citizenship should mean something and it should have privileges you don't have when you haven't become a citizen yet,” group President Tamar Jacoby told the council. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he opposed the bill, in part because it violates state ...

"A lot of (colleges) go for the same students from the rich suburban schools," said Stephen Burd, the foundation's education policy analyst who studied the data. The U.S. News rankings of colleges and universities have become a popular gauge of the ...

The White House proposes that the government forgive billions of dollars in student debt over the next decade, a plan that cheers student advocates, but critics say it would expand a program that already encourages students to borrow too much and stick taxpayers with the bill.

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When asked what regulations should be put in place, Konstantin Kakaes, Bernard Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, warned against a “one size fits all” approach. A5: Regulation should make distinctions between drones of different sizes and ...

Anne-Marie Slaughter, a liberal interventionist who served in a top policy post in Obama's State Department, evoked the memory of Rwanda in appealing in a Washington Post op-ed for Obama to take action. “…(T)he White House must recognize that the ...

"Citizenship should mean something and it should have privileges you don't have when you haven't become a citizen yet," said the group's president, Tamar Jacoby. The Board of Elections said the noncitizen immigration bill would create a logistical ...

In their drafting of the legislation, the senators “found a number of sweet spots” on contentious issues that foiled past efforts to revise immigration laws, said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, an organization of state-based business ...