New America in the News: 2013

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the two ...

..."People who are making drones like to say they are safer than manned aircraft," New America Foundation Fellow Konstantin Kakaes said. "But the drones in the Air Force fleet crash three times as often as manned aircraft."

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Based on the book by national security journalist Peter Bergen, “Manhunt†features interviews with more than a dozen key players in the decade-plus-long race to catch the world’s most wanted man, both before and after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report, “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the ...

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report, “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the ...

Multiple dominant firms can have the effect of a single monopolist simply by acting in parallel to keep new competitors from showing up, as a recent Yale Law Journal article by Scott Hemphill and Tim Wu points out. These companies don't have to agree ...

As Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor and former Pentagon official, put it in recent testimony before a Senate judiciary subcommittee: "Over the last decade, we have seen U.S. drone strikes evolve from a tool used in extremely limited ...

“People of color are more likely to have ‘poor credit’ because of historical and contemporary forms of discrimination that limit opportunities,” argues Hannah Emple, a policy analyst with the New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program. “A low credit score thus becomes more of a proxy for a person’s experience with discriminatory structures rather than a measure of their ability to repay loans in a responsible and timely manner.”

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Adding to the chorus of pro-war voices, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Obama's director of policy planning at the State Department from 2009 to 2011 and a well-known proponent of so-called humanitarian intervention, wrote a forceful Washington Post op-ed urging ...