"My sense is, on something like this the no-surprise rule will apply," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. "America will have the opportunity to red-light it. Therefore I don't think it's in any way imminent." Original article
Those suggestions come from Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, a husband-and-wife team of independent experts who worked on Middle East policy on the ...
... not learned that ceasefires are imperfect but that you have to try and build on them," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. ...
"We're discussing this with everybody and we're going to continue our advocacy and hope for the best," Bair said during a New America Foundation housing ...
"I don't know of any other major players" that would bid with such an approach, said Sascha Meinrath, research director at the New America Foundation. ...
The United States should use part of any future economic stimulus package to connect wind turbines and solar energy to the nation's electricity grid, said Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, an advisor to President-elect Barack Obama.
"You have a command and control (power) grid designed in the 1960s," Schmidt told a New America Foundation event. LINK
The U.S. military has long used private contractors in fighting its wars, but Washington's reliance on non-uniformed civilians has sharply increased over the past five years, the New America Foundation said in a new report. LINK
The McCain Plan
As analyzed by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain would spend $52.5 billion on measures that would include a temporary cut in capital gains taxes, the elimination of taxes on unemployment benefits and allow for more deductions for capital losses
The Obama Plan
According to CRFB, under Obama's plan the government would spend around $190 billion for another round of tax rebates, aid to states and… more
