New America in the News: 2013

A few others, notably the British journalists Anatol Lieven and Edward Luce, have done so culturally from the inside out. The civilising process is not always neatly cyclical. Many of the stereotypical adjectives associated with the American character ...

... a drastic increase in the number of secret U.S. drone attacks in Yemen. 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. ISH/HJ ...

A few days before Christmas, Jason DeParle of The New York Times reported a depressing example of the toll modern financial aid exacts upon students from less sophisticated backgrounds. He told the story of three bright girls from poor families who had ...

“I think he's blowing a huge opportunity here for reasons I don't even get,” said Rosa Brooks, a professor on national security at Georgetown University who spent two years working for Flournoy at the Pentagon. “It would have been fantastic for this ...

Observers said the speech signaled the violence would continue indefinitely as long as both sides lacked the ability to score a victory on the battlefield. Randa Slim, a research fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, said Assad's made ...

I asked Peter Bergen, the CNN national-security analyst and author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad, whether the movie mirrored the facts. Not only did Bergen once interview bin Laden, but he also was the only ...

But as Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, who is also CNN's national security analyst, reported last September that Obama administration officials “assert that the civilian casualty rate is now zero”. How can any US official ever know? Drones ...

Kevin Carey, director of the education policy program at the New America Foundation, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that “the future is so clearly one of universal access to free, high-quality, impeccably branded online courses.” Not so fast ...

Zero Dark Thirty, the action thriller dramatizing the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden, has been generating lots of Oscar buzz since its release in late-December. But the film has also received plenty of criticism about the accuracy of some ...