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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poll: Public Losing Interest In Immigration Reform Following Boston Bombing | U.S. News & World Report

May 3, 2013

Tamar Jacoby, the president of ImmigrationWorks USA, says that while the bombings have been used by some lawmakers on the hill to enforce the notion that legalizing the country's 11 million immigrants who entered the country illegally,would be ...

A Campaign of Willful Blindness on Terrorism | The Algemeiner

May 3, 2013

The subtext rose closest to the main floor lobby during her interview of ex CIA and FBI terrorism expert Philip Mudd. you have talked about the difference between an ideological association with a group like al qaeda and an operational association. an ...

Obama's FCC Pick Has Some Surprising Allies | Nextgov

May 2, 2013

On Tuesday, Sascha Meinrath of the New America Foundation said he was "skeptical" of Wheeler's ability to "[hold] his former clients accountable." At the same time, a number of high-profile influentials have spoken out in Wheeler's favor -- including ...

How Social Network Policies Are Changing Speech And Privacy Norms | Aljazeera.Com

May 2, 2013

Rebecca MacKinnon, is among those who have called out these social networking behemoths on their bad behaviour, referring regularly to Mark Zuckerberg as "the sultan of Facebookistan". In her book, Consent of the Networked, she posits that the ...

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The Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Is There Still Hope For President Obama? | The International

May 2, 2013

In a piece for Foreign Policy entitled “Let Them Go”, Rosa Brooks, former policy advisor to the Obama Administration, expressed strong support for Obama's misgivings about Guantanamo. According to Brooks, however, these misgivings are paramount.

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Our Very Own West Texas | Aljazeera.com

May 1, 2013

Michael Lind points out in, Made In Texas, that we have had conservative presidents over the past century and southern presidents. We have not had the combination. And it is an important distinction. As Lind put it in an interview with BuzzFlash (2002 ...

A Former CIA Analyst On the New Osama bin Laden Documentary, Manhunt | Time

May 1, 2013

I knew Peter Bergen [who wrote the book that provided the background for the movie], and he had told Greg Barker about me. Then, after talking to Greg for a while and understanding his intentions behind the movie, wanting to do first-hand storytelling ...

DC's Own Tom Wheeler Said to Be Next FCC Chair | Mediapost Communications

May 1, 2013

“I am skeptical that the former chief lobbyist of the wireless and cable industries will be capable of holding his former clients accountable for their ongoing shortcomings,” says Sascha Meinrath, head of the Open Technology Institute at the New ...

AT&T Called Wheeler's Nomination An “Inspired Pick” in a Statement | Washington Free Beacon

May 1, 2013

“We have concerns about someone with a background in lobbying for the very industries that they are supposed to be regulating at the FCC, and how that will impact their decision-making at the commission,” said Benjamin Lennett, policy director for the ...

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