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In their program, Girl Scouts who learn to build apps for the Android operating system earn badges they can display and share on their mobile phones. 1; 2 · Next Page ». Kevin Carey is director of the education policy program at the New America Foundation.

11,” said Brian Fishman, a research fellow in counterterrorism at the New America Foundation. “It's local jihadi groups focused on projects within their own countries, even if they sometimes maintain the rhetorical framework of Al Qaeda and its global ...

Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow specializing in Internet free expression and privacy issues at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan group headquartered in Washington, said that the Chinese interruption of Internet access was typical of the its ...

According to the group's president, Maya MacGuineas, the money raised is paying for a growing staff of about 35 at a downtown Washington “war-room,” chapters in up to 35 states and, ultimately perhaps, television ads and other help for politicians ...

“The idea that the government has put colleges on notice not to just expect a blank check is a huge change,” said Kevin Carey, director of education policy at the New America Foundation. But Mr. McCluskey, the Cato analyst, said Mr. Obama misses the ...

“If you are low-income, it doesn't really give you a big bang,” said Jason Delisle, one of the authors of the study, which estimates that monthly payments for low-income borrowers would drop to $20, from $25, under the changes. “If you are high-income ...

Marc Goldwein, senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group, said a few provisions — such as a new tax on high-priced health insurance plans, to take effect in 2018 — could help rein in costs. In the ...

Business groups and industry titans have rallied around a “Fix the Debt” campaign, which is led by Maya MacGuineas's Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and is designed to pressure both sides to reach a deal before the first of the year. So far ...

WE’VE all been there: you feel especially smart and funny when talking to a particular person, only to feel hopelessly unintelligent and inarticulate in the presence of another.

You’re not imagining things. Experiments show that when people report feeling comfortable with a conversational partner, they are judged by those partners and by observers as actually being more witty.

Just what factors may have shaped the psychology of Abu Yahya or any other militant remains “highly speculative,” said Brian Fishman, a researcher at the New America Foundation who previously worked at West Point studying terrorist movements. But “it ...