New America in the News: 2013

Rachel Fishman, a higher education policy analyst for the nonpartisan Washington-based New America Foundation, said the scorecard's plan to aggregate post-graduate employment data by tapping federal databases rather than accepting self-reports from ...

The New America Foundation's report stated that of the 350 drone strikes carried out between 2004 and 2013 in Pakistan alone, an estimated 1,956 to 3,284 people were killed, “of which 1,526 [to] 2,649 were reported to be militants.” These numbers are ...

In his 2010 book, The Master Switch, Tim Wu told the history of American communications - wire, broadcast, mobile - as a 150-year cycle of ingenious new tools, whose quick popularity is exploited by empire-building monopolists, until the government ...

The New America Foundation is also hosting a Feminine Mystique talk on March 6, and the Kennedy Library has an event in the works, which has not yet been scheduled, but will feature Collins, among others. While the book's success was something of a ...

The most basic understanding of human nature renders that self-evident, but this polling data indisputably confirms it. Last month, the Atlantic's Robert Wright announced that he would cease regularly writing for that magazine in order to finish his ...

Leaving no U.S. troops at all would be a major misstep, said Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst. He said the U.S. has abandoned Afghanistan already, in 1989, and the decision left America with little understanding of the power vacuum that ...

Rosa Brooks has a fascinating argument in Foreign Policy which ties human rights campaigners' effective erosion of Westphalian sovereignty over the past 20 years with President Obama's expanded drone campaign. She suggests that the Responsibility to ...

Nonetheless jovial and full of compliments for the film's sheer entertainment value, Taylor's comments were offered alongside a more critical Robert Wright, author of Our Man in Tehran: Ken Taylor and the Iran Hostage Crisis. Argo has swept recent ...

Rachel Fishman, a policy analyst with the Washington-based think tank New America Foundation, said the scorecard is full of important information that should be disseminated widely. "I think it's a good start," she said. "I think there's still more ...