New America in the News: 2013

New America staff and fellows appear regularly on radio and television, and are frequently quoted in media outlets of all types. A selection of that coverage is available below.

Bigelow's Cautious Retort To "Zero Dark Thirty's" Critics | Salon

January 16, 2013

(Others, including Michael Moore, Mark Bowden and CNN's Peter Bergen, have praised the film.) This spirited and often heated division partly stems from the specific way “Zero Dark Thirty” presents its wrenching scenes of torture – that is, with no ...

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A Fresh Take On America's Most Controversial Military Prison | Business Insider

January 16, 2013

Last week, the New America Foundation in Washington, DC convened a panel to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison -- rather, commemorating the fact that it has not been shut down, as was President Obama's ...

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New Purpose Of Government Is Better Government | Bloomberg News

January 16, 2013

Some of the best thinking on these issues is being done at Washington's New America Foundation, which has produced three recent papers that deserve attention. In “Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy,” Steven Teles, a political scientist at Johns ...

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Backdoor Into China | Global Times

January 16, 2013

Tim Wu, who founded ilaowai eight years ago, told Metro Beijing his company "negotiates deals with the government" for visa overstayers. He candidly admits his business thrives in a legally gray area. "It is a loophole, there are many in China. There ...

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Straighter Line | WYPR

January 15, 2013

Glenn: Education experts are watching the Straighter Line model, a first for the for-credit, online college course industry. Amy Laitinen is deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank. She believes Straighter Line’s new price model could develop into a trend.

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The U.S. Legal System And Its Chief Prosecutor Accused Of Contributing To ... | Fast Company

January 15, 2013

Four days after the Internet campaigner's body was found in his Brooklyn apartment, Columbia law school professor and Free Press campaigner Tim Wu wrote a blog post for the New Yorker magazine accusing the U.S. legal system of having failed the young ...

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SUNY offers Web classes, 3-year degree | Newsday

January 15, 2013

Rachel Fishman, a policy analyst researching online education at public universities for the nonpartisan New America Foundation, which has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., said online degree programs are "common sense for state-supported institutions."

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Suicide Bomber Kills Iraqi Lawmaker As Protests Simmer | Los Angeles Times

January 15, 2013

“It fits their pattern,” said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. “Al Qaeda is responding to the tensions in Anbar by attacking these relatively moderate Sunni leaders.” Suspicions also settled on Sunni extremists because ...

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Aaron Swartz's Suicide And Copyright Reform | The Week Magazine

January 15, 2013

"It's one thing to stretch the law to stop a criminal syndicate or terrorist organization," says Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, at The New Yorker. "It's quite another when prosecuting a reckless young man." The act was harmless — not in ...

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Defining Times | The News International

January 15, 2013

Anatol Lieven has shown masterfully that the social, ethnic and economic bonds in Pakistan make it a 'hard country', ie hard to fail in the way Somalia has failed, for example. But that should hardly be the standard. Moreover, the speed with which ...

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The Past, Reclaimed From Right-Wing Myth | The American Prospect

January 15, 2013

Lind salts his closing chapters with the kind of inventive policy propositions that his New America Foundation so abundantly generates. More investments in infrastructure. Better control of health-care costs. Extension of the Earned Income Tax Credit ...

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Tim Wu: What If We'd Treated Steve Jobs And Steve Wozniak The Way We Treated ... | boing boing

January 15, 2013

The act was harmless—not in the sense of hypothetical damages or the circular logic of deterrence theory (that's lawyerly logic), but in John Stuart Mill's sense, meaning that there was no actual physical harm, nor actual economic harm. The leak was ...

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Panelists: Obama Has Let Guantanamo Slip From Public Consciousness | Fierce Homeland Security

January 14, 2013

President Obama has made closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp even harder by letting it fade from the national political conversation, panelists at the New America Foundation said Jan. 11. The government can continue to hold prisoners cleared for ...

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Still A Man's World | Boston Review

January 14, 2013

Two recent books, Hanna Rosin's The End of Men and Liza Mundy's The Richer Sex, collect the many strands of this tale of women ascendant. These authors are motivated by the same basic facts: women's attainment of college degrees has surpassed that of ...

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Chomsky: Obama Has No Moral Center | Press TV

January 14, 2013

Based on its compilation of reports in international media, the New America Foundation reported that U.S. drone strikes in Yemen rose from 18 in 2011 to 53 in 2012. In what should come as no surprise to anyone following the unconscionable chronicle of ...

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More Reforms Needed In Health Care System | Capitol Weekly

January 14, 2013

“We have a disease care system,” not a health care system, says Shannon Brownlee, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. “And the disease care system…

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On Guantanamo, Is Obama A Pragmatist — Or That Other P Word? | Corporate Crime Reporter

January 13, 2013

On Friday, he was at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. on a panel to discuss President Obama's failure to close down Guantanamo — despite Obama's promises to do so. Davis said that for the past couple of years, at the end of the year, ...

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The 7 Best Sunday Talk Moments | Daily Beast

January 13, 2013

On Reliable Sources Sunday, The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz talked to Global Voices co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon about recent protests in China, which started when liberal paper Southern Weekend challenged alleged government censorship. Though ...

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Getting Real | The Friday Times

January 11, 2013

But during 2012, the CIA carried out as many as 46 strikes, compared to 72 in 2011 and 122 in 2010, according to the CRSS Security Brief 2012 and New America Foundation (NAF) assessments. A report commissioned by legal lobby group Reprieve in ...

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Zero Dark Thirty: Great Film – Or Pr Exercise For The Cia? | Globe And Mail

January 11, 2013

... on the legal justifications and possible criminality of the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation techniques), Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, who made Taxi to the Dark Side, and CNN's Peter Bergen, who wrote Manhunt: ...

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