New America in the News: 2013

"Women are more empowered financially than they've ever been before," says Liza Mundy, author of "The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family." She cites data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

The greatest danger comes when netizens are unaware of how power is being exercised over them, as Global Voices co-founder Rebecca Mackinnon, author of “Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom”, noted in an article for ...

Two years after the death of Osama bin Laden, the U.S. continues to warn of the threat posed by the terrorist organization he led. As part of our "Looking Ahead" series, Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst and author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year ...

“From before its inception, this agency has faced pressure and they’ve done more than an admirable job of rising to the challenge,” Reid Cramer, who directs a program aimed at promoting family wealth-building policies at the Washington-based New America Foundation, said in an interview.

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"My expectations are low," said Rosa Brooks, who served in the Pentagon from 2009 to 2011. She said she would like Obama to ask Congress to establish an external review or judicial system for the targeted killings, but doesn't think he'll do so.

The accords failed to bring peace, Anatol Lieven, a professor at London's King's College and author of “Pakistan: A Hard Country,” said in a May 12 interview. “The Pakistani Taliban made bigger and bigger gains. There is a real risk that will start ...

Science blogger Nicholas Thompson summarizes this view on The New Yorker magazine's website: “Everything we use that emits carbon dioxide needs to be replaced with something that doesn't.” Does that include human beings? Perhaps we can hold our ...

... in Personal Technology. View all reviews ». The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team. — Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of ...

The bipartisan group of senators “did the best they could” to resolve differences between business and labor, said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a federation of state-based business groups advocating revising U.S. laws. It “is going ...