New America in the News: 2013

By 2008, said Philip Mudd, then a top FBI counterterrorism official, al-Awlaki “was cropping up as a radicalizer – not in just a few investigations, but in what seemed to be every investigation.” In November 2009, when Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army ...

... some cities already offer or are moving toward just offering wireless service in specific areas, such as the downtown, parks and libraries, said Benjamin Lennett, policy director of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation, a ...

"This is overblown," CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said. "Though he was Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Abu Ghaith is far from a big fish in al Qaeda." U.S. officials arrested him on February 28 in Jordan, according to a spokesman for U.S. Rep.

Sascha Meinrath, vice president and director of the Open Technology Institute, told ABC News that its open sourced wireless "mesh network" system can serve many purposes. "It can be used in places where there is no connectivity, where connectivity has ...

Last month, Michael Lind ordered us to Stop pretending cyberspace exists, calling the concept of cyberspace an idea that makes you dumber the moment you learn of it. The security consultant Alec Muffett has also complained about "cyberspace" for more ...

The other tipping point is the growing number of “breadwomen” in the world, to use a term from Washington Post reporter Liza Mundy to describe women who earn more than their partners. It is a trend that will transform society, Mundy argues. In 2006 ...

The $170 billion spent every year on federal aid to higher education is "a huge potential lever" for making sure colleges work as hard at graduating students as they do in recruiting them, said Amy Laitinen, deputy director for higher education at the ...

This has been dubbed by as the “internet in a suitcase,” and is a project run by the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation. “It is a response to countries as Iran and Egypt, who in the face of dissent literally turned down or slowed ...

He is identified as a major Al Qaeda core official by the New America Foundation think tank in Washington. King said Abu Ghayth was involved in the planning in the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It's likely that Abu Ghayth ...