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“I really worry this is going to be remembered as the United States standing by and watching a Middle East war ignite,” said Ms. Slaughter, who will become president of the New America Foundation in Washington in September. “I fear the president thinks ...

“High-quality pre-K can happen in church basements, community centers or within the Y.M.C.A., as long as the standards are there,” said Lisa Guernsey, the director of early education at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit policy institute. At a ...

Jason DeParle, a Washington reporter who focused much of his time last year on economic mobility, is on a yearlong leave to write a book. Diane Nilan, an Illinois-based advocate for homeless families, is frustrated by The Times's “spotty interest”: “I ...

“It is a new thing, a big social experiment that we've accidentally decided to engage in,” said Kevin Carey, the director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a research group based in Washington. “Let's send a whole class of ...

“We have to change the calculation of the people around Assad, to have them figure out a deal is better than going down to the end,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Princeton professor and former director of policy planning for Hillary Clinton's State ...

... body of work about Mr. Ailes. A friendly biography by Zev Chafets was published in March, getting ahead of another book about Mr. Ailes and Fox that had been set for publication this month. That one, by Gabriel Sherman, is now scheduled for next ...

“The heart of immigration reform is fixing the legal immigration system so it works for America,” said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a group representing small businesses. “The first draft doesn't get the future exactly right, but it ...

“The bundle is the Gibraltar of the media business,” said Tim Wu, the author of “The Master Switch,” a history of media revolutions. “It keeps the entire ecosystem alive, which is why it is so heavily and successfully defended. But there are hairline ...

By the count of the New America Foundation, a research group that tries to track targeted killing, the United States has carried out 422 strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, 373 of them since Mr. Obama took office in 2009, in addition to a handful in Somalia.