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You'll recall that Peter Bergen, a director at the New America Foundation and a national security analyst for CNN, began pronouncing al-Qaida dead last summer. At the Aspen Institute, he even gave a speech titled: "Time to Declare Victory: Al Qaeda Is ...

Rachel Fishman, a policy analyst researching online education at public universities for the nonpartisan New America Foundation, which has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., said online degree programs are "common sense for state-supported institutions."

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"We really risk jeopardizing where we stand in the global economy by showing we can't govern," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan Washington group that backs deficit reduction. MacGuineas's ...

Is America still a land of promise?

The biblical metaphor was used in 1785 by George Washington, who described the new United States as a "second land of promise." More than a century later, the progressive journalist Herbert Croly wrote: "From the beginning the Land of Democracy has been figured as the Land of Promise."

Higher Ed Watch, a research initiative at the New America Foundation, points out that the establishment of the code is an unexpected admission that abuses have indeed taken place. Higher Ed Watch warns that the group may just be engaging in a publicity ...

The continuing crisis in Japan from the near-meltdown of the Fukushima reactor is terrifying in its own right. But it also raises the question of another, even deadlier nuclear threat.

The evacuations now going on in Japan would pale in comparison to what would be necessary if just one 100-kiloton nuclear bomb were to go off near a major city - not to mention the immediate deaths caused by the bomb, which could reach into the hundreds of thousands. And a 100-kiloton bomb is among the smallest in the U.S. or Russian arsenals.

"It could be huge," said economist Len Nichols of the nonpartisan New American Foundation, who supports the idea. Yet many lawmakers on both sides of the ...

Schumer's approach is based on work by economist Len Nichols of the think tank New America Foundation. His compromise could cost more and save less, said Karen Davis of The Commonwealth Fund, but would still work. The final health-care bill might drop ...

The United States peddled $32 billion in weapons in 2007 according to The New America Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy institute. ...

Without independents, will McCain, Obama falter? (Newsday)
"Certainly, closed primaries are better for those who have a stronger following among party faithful," said Steven Hill, the director of the political reform program for the nonpartisan New America Foundation.