New America in the News: 2012

“The interesting question is, how good is the thing that’s free?” said Kevin Carey, an education analyst at the New America Foundation. “It doesn’t surprise me that they’re being deliberate about it. If they’re putting their brand names behind this effort in a very public way, you absolutely want to mitigate against the risk of people saying, ‘This is no good.’”

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A 2010 opinion poll conducted by the New America Foundation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, where U.S. drone strikes have been carried out on a much larger scale, shows an overwhelming opposition to U.S. drone strikes ...

... had a rather big secession and that cost more lives than all the other American wars put together," says Anatol Lieven, professor of international relations at King's College London and author of America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American ...

The consequences for innovation have been well articulated by scholars such as Jonathan Zittrain and Tim Wu and so need not detain us here. The possibilities of telco control are only just becoming apparent - in Dubai of all places, where the World ...

New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman was the first outsider to notice. "Multiple sources say that Ailes was angry at Rove's election-night tantrum when he disputed the network's call for Obama," Sherman reports. Former George W. Bush strategist Rove ...

Kandahar, The Fighting Season: Louie Palu, until Sept. 22, Canadian War Museum. Send exhibit info to events@ottawacitizen.com two weeks before the event. To list a gallery online, go to ottawacit-izen.com/eventsform, click "Category" button and enter ...

Newspaper reporter Brigid Schulte took part in the discussion. Ms. Schulte is writing a book about the time pressure on American families. “We work among the most hours of any country in the world. We take the fewest days of vacation of any country in ...

4 by the New America Foundation. Lawmakers have information—in fact, they are drowning in it—but they do not have a deliberate system providing inclusive information that is not overshadowed by special interest and advocacy-group data, writes Lorelei ...

If a report out Wednesday from Gabriel Sherman at New York magazine is to be believed, Fox News is now trying to distance itself from Rove's election-night shenanigans by strictly limiting his on-air appearances. Joining him on the bench will be Dick ...