New America in the News: 2012

New America staff and fellows appear regularly on radio and television, and are frequently quoted in media outlets of all types. A selection of that coverage is available below.

Latino Voters Will Drive 2013 Political Agenda | NBC Latino

December 10, 2012

Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a Republican who advocates for the need to tackle immigration reform, asked the panel whether the Republican party has a chance with Latino voters. “At the moment I think Latinos are hardcore Democratic ...

The Internet Takeover That Never Was | PBS NewsHour

December 10, 2012

"It would make it easier for national governments to monitor traffic, violate human rights and obstruct commercial and political exchange across borders," said Tim Maurer, a program associate at New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.

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On Europe's Foreign Agenda: How To Handle Israel | Christian Science Monitor

December 10, 2012

“Europeans have, so far, not developed a narrative or tools for managing their Israeli relations,” says Daniel Levy, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations in London. ... When the vote in ...

Free To Kill: How A Lack Of Accountability In America's Drone Campaign ... | International Affairs Review

December 9, 2012

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 ...

Robots And Robber Barons | New York Times

December 9, 2012

What about robber barons? We don't talk much about monopoly power these days; antitrust enforcement largely collapsed during the Reagan years and has never really recovered. Yet Barry Lynn and Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation argue, ...

Secession Petitions: Why Americans Don'T Really Want To Break Up | BBC

December 9, 2012

... 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 ...

Navy Pares Back Strategic Communication Units | Navytimes.Com

December 8, 2012

On the website Foreign Policy, Rosa Brooks, a former Pentagon strategic communications official from 2009 to 2011, took issue with Little's memo and its portrayal in USA TODAY. Strategic communication is a "simple plea," she wrote. The U.S. government ...

Kalabagh Dam: Reconsidering The Case | Dawn

December 8, 2012

According to Woodrow Wilson Center's South Asia scholar Anatol Lieven, one of the greatest threats to the future of Pakistan's stability is water security. Water availability per capita has fallen to less than a third of what it was in the 1950s. The ...

Review: Discover: The Networker: The Success Of Smartphones Comes At A ... | Equities.Com

December 8, 2012

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 ...

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Malley: “Abd, Değişen Gerçeklere Ayak Uydurmalı” | Amerika’Nın Sesi

December 6, 2012

Daha sonra konuşan Yeni Amerika Vakfı (New America Foundation) Ortadoğu Çalışma Grubu Başkanı Leila Hilal, ABD'nin İsrail konusunda uluslararası toplumda yalnız kaldığının altını çizdi. Uzman, Amerikan halkının bu konudaki görüşlerinin de değişmeye ...

Congress Lacks Basic Knowledge Management, Finds Paper | FierceGovernmentIT

December 6, 2012

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 ...

Why Fox News Had To Bench Karl Rove | The Week Magazine

December 6, 2012

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 ...

Experts View Higher Tuition Issues From Many Different Angles | Diverse: Issues In Higher Education

December 6, 2012

“We're coming to the point where people will be unable to meet what they see as their most pressing obligation as a parent, even if they take advantage of all the vehicles given them,” said Kevin Carey, director of education policy for New America ...

Dec. 6-13: Galleries | Ottawa Citizen

December 6, 2012

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 ...

Karl Rove And Dick Morris: Too Embarrassing For Fox News | Opednews

December 6, 2012

New York magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman reported on Tuesday that Fox News producers are under orders to limit the appearances of contributors Karl Rove and Dick Morris. Fox relied heavily upon Rove and Morris to interpret polling and ...

Remembering Dave Brubeck; Help For Stressed Parents; Rock And Roll Hall Of ... | Voice Of America

December 6, 2012

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 ...

Karl Rove, Dick Morris Sidelined By Fox News | Truthdig

December 5, 2012

According to New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman, that edict came from none other than Fox News President Roger Ailes himself. That the two were not accurate election forecasters like The New York Times' Nate Silver is perhaps the main reason they've ...

Why Are So Many Professional Millennial Women Unable to Find Dateable Men? | Forbes

December 5, 2012

In fact, as author Liza Mundy writes in her book, The Richer Sex, Millennial women are increasingly finding two options when it comes to romance: marry down or don't marry. “There needs to be a cognitive behavior change in what are [considered ...

It Isn't Easy Being Fox | The American Prospect

December 5, 2012

Fox News has been in the news a bunch over the last two days, with stories like Roger Ailes' wooing of David Petraeus, and now the discovery by Gabriel Sherman of New York that the network has benched Karl Rove and Dick Morris, though for slightly ...

Why Fox Benched Karl Rove And Dick Morris | The Daily Beast

December 5, 2012

New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reports that Ailes has issued an edict: Neither man can be booked without the approval of top management.A Fox spokesman confirmed this to the magazine with the words: “The election's over.” Could this simply ...

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