This afternoon in Shanghai, U.S. President Barack Obama held a
townhall-style meeting with university students. It was an event that
his staff had worked hard to include on his China trip itinerary. After
a brief speech extolling the importance of core values to the success
of the United States as a nation and Americans as individuals, Obama
took questions from the audience and online.
A recent op-ed in the Boston Globe argues that microlending
"doesn't actually do much to fight poverty" and that it may be time
to "think macro rather than micro." Maybe the hype surrounding
microcredit as a panacea for everything from poverty to discrimination is
undeserved. But debunking the whole bottom-up, micro approach on the basis of two
unpublished papers is not just premature, but dangerous. Macro, trickle-down development policies have rather effectively kept billions of people poor
He broke away Wednesday evening to attend a reception at the New America Foundation to celebrate the publication of the latest book by his wife, ...
October 21, 2009
Steve Clemons, New America's foreign-policy chief and the editor of The Washington Note, organized the event and has been building a left-right coalition of ...
Astonishingly, however, writing in the New York Times this week, former National Security Council staffers Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett suggest ...
On October 1, the People's Republic of China will mark its 60th
anniversary with the largest military parade in its history. The ruling
Communist Party is not commemorating 60 years of ideological stability
and continuity, however, but a period of speedy change and dramatic
reversals.
Barack
Obama and a number of his cabinet members are only the second-most prominent
American team to descend on Mexico this week (the U.S. president traveled to
Guadalajara for the annual "Rodney Dangerfield summit," where Canada
and Mexico try to get some respect from their disinterested neighbor). Most
Mexicans are paying far more attention to the visit of a different delegation
from north of the Rio Grande, the U.S. national soccer team that takes on Mexico
in a crucial World Cup qualifying match at Mexico City's imposing… more
On Monday, August 10, Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation will launch The AfPak Channel, a special project featuring expert analysis from ...
August 7, 2009
U.S. terrorism experts agree that al Qaeda has suffered setbacks, at least in some parts of the world. Peter Bergen, a CNN analyst and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, said the "net effect of the drone attacks" along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, for instance, "has been devastating to their planning and training." Polling data also show a loss of public support for al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, Bergen said.
