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.

5 Reasons Syria's War Suddenly Looks More Dangerous | CNN International

May 8, 2013

In the Washington Post, former Obama adviser Anne Marie Slaughter has recalled the "shameful" failure to confront genocide in Rwanda. But Cordesman writes: "Syria has become the land of bad options. The Obama administration has reason to hesitate in ...

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Will Israel's Air Strikes Set Off a Regional War? | Socialist Worker Online

May 8, 2013

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 ...

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3 Suspects in Custody in Marathon Bombing | Bloomberg

May 8, 2013

Three 19-year-old college friends of one of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers were charged with hindering the investigation in the days after the April 15 attack by throwing away evidence and lying to police. New American Foundation Research Fellow Tara Maller speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line."

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Islam Not At Fault in Boston Bombings | The State

May 8, 2013

11, 2001, and the end of 2012, "according to data collected by journalist Peter Bergen and the New America Foundation," reports Mother Jones magazine. "In contrast, right-wing extremists killed 29 people during those 11 years." Using Bergen's figures ...

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New Tool Could Free Syrian Rebels From Reliance On State Internet | Nextgov

May 8, 2013

Sascha Meinrath's Institute is working on Commotion, a U.S.-government funded project to create “mesh” networks of local Internet connections that don't rely on external Internet service providers. In the case of Syria, he said, that would mean anti ...

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Merit Consideration | Inside Higher Ed

May 8, 2013

Stephen Burd, the report's author, is pessimistic that institutions will be able to reverse these trends on their own, saying instead that any change will have to come from state or federal lawmakers. “These actions fly in the face of national goals to ...

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Syrian Rebels' Internet Reliance | Nextgov

May 8, 2013

Sascha Meinrath's Institute is working on Commotion, a U.S.-government funded project to create “mesh” networks of local Internet connections that don't rely on external Internet service providers. In the case of Syria, he said, that would mean anti ...

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Editorial: A Better Approach On Student Loans | New Haven Register

May 7, 2013

Jason Delisle, the New America Foundation's higher-education maven, points out that there's still a lot more Congress and the White House have to fix. They could save billions, for example, by unifying the various loan terms the government offers to ...

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President's Call For Bigger Government?

May 7, 2013

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Obama's Loss For Words On Syria | Washington Post

May 6, 2013

... House is coldly wrong. Obama didn't misspeak when he said red line. He misspoke when he later suggested that he didn't mean it. Read more on this topic: Eugene Robinson: Stay out of Syria · Anne-Marie Slaughter: Obama should remember Rwanda ...

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Message to Assad | Jerusalem Post

May 6, 2013

... transfer of gamechanging weapons to Hezbollah, Israel has made it clear – this time at least – that when it uses the rhetoric of “unacceptable” and “intolerable” it is not just being “so hectoring and schoolmarish,” as Foreign Policy's Rosa Brooks ...

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Hacking-Gate Cost Rupert Murdoch Dearly | Tucson Citizen

May 6, 2013

Freud, along with shepherding other plots, is widely rumored to be a key source for a new anti-Ailes biography being written by Gabriel Sherman. (Sherman, through his publisher, refused to confirm or deny Freud's participation in the book.) While ...

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A Homemade Style Of Terror | NDTV

May 5, 2013

Philip Mudd, a former top CIA and FBI counterterrorism official, said the news from Boston came as no shock to those who reviewed the daily compilation of intelligence reports on terrorism. "Like everyone who looked at the threat matrix every day, I ...

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Syria Is Not Iraq | The New York Times

May 5, 2013

“We have to change the calculation of the people around Assad, to have them figure out a deal is better than going down to the end,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Princeton professor and former director of policy planning for Hillary Clinton's State ...

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Behind The Scenes At Fox | New York Times

May 5, 2013

... body of work about Mr. Ailes. A friendly biography by Zev Chafets was published in March, getting ahead of another book about Mr. Ailes and Fox that had been set for publication this month. That one, by Gabriel Sherman, is now scheduled for next ...

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A Better Approach to Student Loans | The Washington Post

May 5, 2013

Jason Delisle, the New America Foundation's higher-education maven, points out that there's still a lot more Congress and the White House have to fix. They could save billions, for example, by unifying the various loan terms the government offers to ...

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Little International Support for Arming Syria Rebels | The Pew Global Attitudes Project

May 3, 2013

In a recent Washington Post op-ed piece, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the former head of the policy planning office in the US State Department, plaintively asked Obama: “Mr President, how many uses of chemical weapons does it take to cross a red line against ...

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Proposal Would Offer Guest-Worker Status To Some Who Entered U.S. Without Permission | Chicago Tribune

May 3, 2013

said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a Washington-based business advocacy group. "The program only works if it's really big enough to give people who are coming to do jobs that we need done a way to enter legally." Jacoby cited a 2012 ...

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Restaurant, Retail Jobs At Issue In Immigration Legislation | Chicago Tribune

May 3, 2013

said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a Washington-based business advocacy group. "The program only works if it's really big enough to give people who are coming to do jobs that we need done a way to enter legally." Jacoby cited a 2012 ...

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BP Oil Coverup: 'We're Just Lab Rats In A Giant Corporate Experiment' | Citywatch

May 3, 2013

Writing for Newsweek and with the support of the Nation Institute's Investigative Fund, Mark Hertsgaard recently laid bare how Corexit was utilized and the dire effects it apparently had on the men and women who worked to “clean” the gulf in the wake ...

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