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A recent analysis by the New America Foundation estimated drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2004 have killed up to 3,238 militants and as many as 368 civilians. Professor Christopher Coker of the London School of Economics is author of Warrior ...

Another contributor to Talibanistan, Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism expert with the New America foundation, sees a gloomy and dangerous future for the Afghans if the United States leaves. "I am quite pessimistic about the Afghan government. And I ...

I think that is a largely exaggerated fear,” says Leila Hilal, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. Hilal says al-Nusrah's leadership may subscribe to a hardline Islamist doctrine but that the make-up of its fighters is ...

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 ...

Rev. David Gray of Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, believes faith can be part of the solution. "In our congregation, we have a lot of people who are stressed at work. It comes from living in the D.C. area. It comes from a lot of professionals in the congregation," he says, "and so when I look out in the pews I need to deal with the stress that they are facing."

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Former Israeli government official Daniel Levy, now co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, said the political dimensions of Netanyahu's position on the Iran nuclear issue cannot be overlooked.

One month ago, Anatol Lieven, a professor at the War Studies Department in King's College London, joined a group dinner with Prime Minister Putin. He calls Putin a master politician and predicts he will regain his footing. “It's just the beginning of ...

Jason Peuquet of the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “If Congress just went home over the next several years, then our debt path is not nearly as bad,” he stated. But there is a catch. “It is really not realistic that Congress ...

Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation says it does not take a large economy to see how interconnected the world has become. "We saw that one smaller country in the EU, Greece, could really almost bring down Europe and threaten ...

Anatol Lieven, a professor at King's College London, is studying the impact of the rise of China on Russia. “Russia, as a whole, would be reduced to something like being the Canada to a Chinese United States," said Lieven. "That's a prospect that the ...