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.

What Is The Daily Telegraph Doing Promoting Gulbuddin Hekmatyar? | The Week UK

January 2, 2013

"Hekmatyar's party has the dubious distinction of never winning a significant battle during the war," writes Peter Bergen, an authority on Islamist terrorism, "training a variety of militant Islamists from around the world, killing significant numbers ...

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Historical Ignorance And Utopian Dreams | Commentary

January 2, 2013

And so we should probably have expected nothing less (or nothing more) in Michael Lind's Salon essay explaining why he has moved away from the American right. But conservatives shouldn't be deterred by the headline, “Right-wing dreams of demented ...

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Proposed Beer Merger Could Hurt Competition In U.S. | Marketplace

January 2, 2013

Barry Lynn, a fellow at the New America Foundation, argues that over the years, Anheuser Busch-InBev and the world's second largest beer company, MillerCoors, have created a monopoly. Neither company replied to our requests for interviews. “They have ...

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Changes Ahead for Early Education’s Head Start Program | Epoch Times

January 2, 2013

“This year was the first time ever that Head Start was funded based on rigorous quality measures,” said Lisa Guernsey, director of the Early Education Initiative with the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy institute based in Washington, D.C.

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The Web's New Monopolists | The Atlantic

January 2, 2013

“Strategy is antitrust with a minus sign in front of it,” says the Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, who has taught both subjects. That is, strategy tries to maximize what antitrust tries to minimize. What is new is that the path from looking for ...

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U.S. Steps Up Drone Attacks In Afghanistan | Press TV

January 2, 2013

The unmanned aircraft are also operating in Yemen and Somalia. According to a report compiled by the Washington think-tank, New America Foundation, the number of the US drone airstrikes in Yemen almost tripled this year compared with the previous one.

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Breast Cancer: What We Learned in 2012 | WEKU

January 2, 2013

Health writer Shannon Brownlee of the New America Foundation says the issue is a prime example of what she calls American medicine's tendency to overdiagnose and overtreat disease. She's the author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.

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Fcc Would Regulate Internet Data Caps Under Wyden Bill | Fierce Mobile Government

January 2, 2013

Wyden introduced the Data Cap Integrity Act a few days after the New America Foundation released a report (.pdf) that called into question whether monthly data caps actually address network congestion. The report says that "data caps, especially on ...

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Democratic Politics And The Innovator's Dilemma | Techpresident

January 2, 2013

In his book The Master Switch, Tim Wu argues that innovation in technology industries follows a predictable pattern. When a disruptive actor overturns the running order of the marketplace, it glides into a dominant market share position. Then the ...

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Today On Your Call: What Are Your Hopes For 2013? | KALW

January 2, 2013

Courtesy of @flickr.com/portobayevents. Guests: Ethel Long-Scott, Executive Director of the Women's Economic Agenda Project. Mark Hertsgaard, environment correspondent for The Nation and the author of HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.

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Millennial Group Taking Over H Street Ne For Inaugural Fun | Washington Examiner

January 1, 2013

Besides the Millennial Trains Project, the No Kings Collective, a local arts cooperative, and the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, have gotten involved to bring in diverse programming. For example, on Jan. 18, the space will host an ...

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Breast Cancer: What We Learned In 2012 | WBUR

January 1, 2013

Health writer Shannon Brownlee of the New America Foundation says the issue is a prime example of what she calls American medicine's tendency to overdiagnose and overtreat disease. She's the author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making ...

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