New America in the News: 2011

Evgeny Morozov, Scholar, New America Foundation, 27. Democracy theorist published The Net Delusion concluding social media can be used for repression more effectively than liberation.

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... 4 while in violation of Iran's air sovereignty “highlights a deeper reality,” than a mere signification of the escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote on the Race for Iran website. ...

"They had the guts to come forward to explain how hard it is to operate in the current immigration environment and to underscore the need to fix it," says Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a federation of businesses that back immigration ...

We're set to become "a planet that's a whole lot more crowded--with old people," Phillip Longman, a senior research fellow on health policy at the New America Foundation, lamented in the September/October issue of Foreign Policy. ...

His first, in 1995, considered Michael Lind's book “The Next American Nation,” and it featured the sharp opinions and elegant phrases that would appear regularly in our pages in the ensuing years: “Mr. Lind is one of the few contemporary writers to ...

Even the preferred tactic of the filmmakers—stripping back the education bureaucracy, and enabling more school choice—has failed to prove effective in minimizing the racial gap. Dana Goldstein documents how the legacy of Michelle Rhee, the movement's ...

In "The Net Delusion," Evgeny Morozov, in a sassy and enlightening way, takes on the idea that the Internet and social media are going to march the world's people to democracy and peace. And for those that believe evil, when it occurs, is unfathomable, ...

By Cory Doctorow at 1:51 pm Thursday, Dec 15 The New America Foundation's Open Network Initiative, a US State Department-funded project to build an "Internet in a suitcase" that can be dropped into repressive zones where protesters need network access ...

But the drone strikes, once a daily occurrence, appear to have been on hold since mid-November, and it is unclear when they will resume, said Andrew Liebovitch, an expert at the New America Foundation. “US and Pakistani officials have said that Shamsi ...