New America in the News: 2011

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.

Stimulus Spending Helped State Higher Education Weather the Recession | Campus Progress

November 8, 2011

A report by the New America Foundation finds some states better prepared for the future after three years of financial assistance. Did the stimulus package benefit higher education in the long term? Moving into fiscal 2012, certain states are better ...

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Will Google Upend Moldy Cable-TV Business Model? | E-Commerce Times

November 7, 2011

"Everything [except TV] has become unbundled -- from newspapers to music," noted Philip Napoli, a professor at Fordham University. "I could see Google wanting to explore an opportunity to disrupt the traditional TV program delivery model. ...

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1 Year from Election Day: It's the Economy, Stupid | Motley Fool

November 7, 2011

In a recent article in BusinessWeek, Charles Kenny cited an International Monetary Fund study of 60 worldwide recessions. "A grand total of two of those 60 were predicted by forecasters a year before they happened -- which means the other 58 took ...

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For-Profit College Firm Discloses Improper Job Placement Rates | California Watch

November 7, 2011

Stephen Burd, editor of the New America Foundation's Higher Ed Watch, said job placement rates are key recruiting tools for colleges, and the company should do more for students. “When you talk to students who went to these schools, they always talk ...

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Bush, Reagan Adviser Helped Write Bachmann Autobiography | MinnPost.com

November 7, 2011

Pinkerton is a Newsday columnist and a Fox News contributor, according to his biography from the New America Foundation, where he was a senior fellow until this summer. He was a senior adviser for Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential run. ...

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Sean Joyce Brings Intensity to No. 2 Job at FBI | The Washington Post

November 6, 2011

“The dude is in seriously good shape,'' said Philip Mudd, a former senior FBI official. Tales of Joyce's intensity, drive and physical prowess are legion in the close-knit world of FBI agents. There was, for example, the day about 10 years ago when he ...

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How Big a Threat Is Al Qaida's North Africa Branch? | McClatchy Newspapers

November 6, 2011

Andrew Lebovich, an analyst at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank, says "the public evidence" of collaboration "is too thin to draw that kind of conclusion." "The US and other governments seem pretty convinced, ...

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Peter Bergen in the Field | National Geographic

November 6, 2011

Peter Bergen talking about the difficulties of finding information on Bin Laden in the field in Pakistan

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Abolish For-Profit Universities | Minnesota Daily

November 6, 2011

According to the New America Foundation, some for-profit universities exaggerate and falsify job placement figures in order to meet the federally mandated minimum graduate job placement of 70 percent. The falsification of statistics by for-profit ...

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Maryland's Van Hollen At Center Of Deficit Fight | Baltimore Sun

November 5, 2011

"The supercommittee is still working pretty hard toward trying to get an agreement on a big deal" in excess of their $1.2 trillion mandate, said Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst with the Washington-based Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

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Punting the Tough Issues to the People | Minneapolis Star Tribune

November 5, 2011

To Garofalo and other referendum-loving legislators, I'd recommend a sobering 2010 book: "California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It." Authors Joe Mathews and Mark Paul make a strong case that there's such a thing as ...

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Student Aid Emerges as Hot Political Topic | Education Week

November 4, 2011

The administration views these changes to the student lending program as a potential political boon, said Stephen Burd, the editor of Higher Ed Watch, a blog published by the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank in Washington. ...

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GOP and Taxes: Mixed Message | CNN

November 4, 2011

Indeed, it's more like "they're saying, 'This is what we'd like but it's not necessarily the only thing we can accept,' " said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

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Still Dodging Budget Reality | Chicago Tribune

November 3, 2011

The supercommittee, according to the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, needs to double or triple the savings "to put debt on a clear, downward path by the end of the decade." Getting that amount of deficit reduction would require ...

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Geostrategist Optimistic About World's Economy | Charleston Regional Business

November 3, 2011

Khanna is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. “No matter what the issue, ...

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Judge William Adams' Abused Daughter Says 'My Father Needs Help' | International Business Times

November 3, 2011

"There is a grand tradition around the world of offended Internet denizens punishing people for not behaving," Torie Bosch writes in Slate's tech blog. "When a crime horrifies us, the Internet makes it easier to indulge curiosity. ...

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Condoleezza Rice on Her Worst Year—and the Iraq Surge | BusinessWeek

November 3, 2011

... I came to the conclusion that I'd support it. It would have been easier to just go along with the surge from the beginning. I'm glad I didn't. By the time we undertook the decision to go forward, it was a better decision. — As told to Romesh Ratnesar.

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Asheville Area Rep. Shuler Touts Call To Cut Debt | Gannett News Service

November 3, 2011

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, agreed. “What's remarkable about this is that up until now it's been possible — not easy, but possible — to see a path of success through the Senate. ...

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Assad's Broken Promises | Council on Foreign Relations

November 3, 2011

Randa Slim of the New America foundation writes that the main opposition groups (ForeignPolicy)--the Turkey-based Syrian National Council and the Damascus-based National Coordination Committee--disagree on two critical questions: whether Assad must go, ...

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Analysis: U.S., Peace Talks Hurt Most By P.A. UNESCO Bid | Jerusalem Post

November 3, 2011

Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator under Prime Minister Ehud Barak who is now at the New American Foundation think tank in Washington, said, "The Palestinian strategy right now is hurting America more than it's hurting Israel."

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