New America in the News: 2012

Ratings companies, such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service, would immediately downgrade U.S. debt, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Washington-based Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It's a “dangerous tipping point” ...

Ratings companies, such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service, would immediately downgrade U.S. debt, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Washington-based Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It's a “dangerous tipping point” ...

Ratings companies, such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service, would immediately downgrade U.S. debt, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Washington-based Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It's a “dangerous tipping point” ...

Tamar Jacoby, president of Immigration Works USA, a national federation of small business owners working to change immigration laws, says deferred action applicants could put employers in a tough spot. “If an employee goes to the employer and says, 'I’m applying for deferred action. I need a letter from you saying I worked here,’ the employer is basically in a position where they have to terminate the person,” Jacoby said.

American journalist Peter Bergen's account of the infamous Abbottabad incursion by US SEALs which killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in his recently-published book 'Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad – The Ten-Year Search for Osama Bin Laden'.

Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation, said that is an advantage of using the broadcast spectrum. "Wi-Fi has been booming, but it has been limited by the frequencies it operates on, which go only a few hundred meters," said Calabrese, who has been pressing for the use of "white spaces" since 2002.

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"A designation makes negotiating with the Taliban harder, and would add another layer of things to do to build confidence in order to restart negotiations, " said Shamila N. Chaudhary, a South Asia analyst at the Eurasia Group ...

More than 1,500 school systems depend on federal funding for more than 20 percent of their annual revenue based on 2010 data, according to calculations from Jennifer Cohen Kabaker, a senior policy analyst at the centrist New America Foundation think tank.

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“If the goal is to have ubiquitous mobile broadband at affordable prices, the carriers will never be able to meet that demand with more exclusively licensed spectrum,” says Michael Calabrese, who heads up the New America Foundation’s Wireless Future Project and helped compile the report. “One small junk band of spectrum that’s used for Wi-Fi is now carrying more data than al the wired broadband and commercial mobile broadband together.”