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.

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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Himes Urges Super Committee To "Go Big" | The Daily Weston

November 2, 2011

“This is a huge step forward for bipartisanship in Congress and makes the road to reaching an agreement on debt reduction all the more possible,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

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Netanyahu Cancels Participation in Federations' GA | Jerusalem Post

November 2, 2011

The GA is JFNA's annual gathering which draws thousands of people from across North American and the world. This year's participants include Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren, US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro and journalist Peter Beinart.

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Hillary Adams, Daughter Allegedly Beaten by Judge, Asks People To Help Her ... | Huffington Post

November 2, 2011

According to Slate's Torie Bosch, some Redditors posted the judge's address and phone number, while others posted the contact information for local law enforcement. Aransas County has issued a press release asking people to "refrain from communication ...

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Invading Has Led To a Decade of Violence | Sydney Morning Herald

November 2, 2011

... ''destabilising and radicalising Pakistan, risking a geopolitical catastrophe for the United States - and the world - which would dwarf anything that could possibly occur in Afghanistan'', quoting a British military/Pakistan analyst, Anatol Lieven. ...

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Analysis: U.S., Peace Talks Hurt Most by Palestinian UNESCO Bid | Reuters

November 2, 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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Journalism Colleges Should Emulate Teaching Hospitals, Study Says | Bellingham Herald

November 2, 2011

According to the report, "Shaping 21st Century Journalism," prepared by the New America Foundation and funded by the Knight Foundation, journalism programs should emulate the model of teaching hospitals. "They should beta-test new models for journalism ...

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Why The ‘Automatic’ Cuts Spurring The Debt Supercommittee May Not Be So Automatic | StateImpact

November 1, 2011

... Jason Delisle, director of the New America Foundation’s Federal Education Budget Project and former House budget committee staffer, says Congress could “just turn off” the automatic cuts. ...

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Budget Veteran Warns Deficit Committee Members They Might 'Fail the Country' | Fox News

November 1, 2011

Though Social Security is not a big deficit-driver in the near-term the way Medicare and Medicaid are, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget also called for the super committee to deal with Social Security since it is a "long-term" deficit ...

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Analysis: Budget Chicanery Could Tempt Deficit Panel | Reuters

October 31, 2011

Maya MacGuineas, head of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said while cutting taxes as part of comprehensive reforms can help the economy grow, as Republicans argue, that does not mean tax cuts pay for themselves. ...

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US Calls for ISI Assistance in Peace Talks with Haqqanis | The Express Tribune

October 31, 2011

A former top White House aide on Pakistan and Afghanistan Shamila N. Chaudhary said: The big question for the administration is, what can the Pakistanis actually deliver? Pakistan is holing its cards very closely ...

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U.S. Seeks Aid From Pakistan in Peace Effort | The New York Times

October 30, 2011

"The Pakistanis see the contradictions in the American approach," said Shamila N. Chaudhary, a former top Obama White House aide on Pakistan and Afghanistan. "The big question for the administration is, What can the Pakistanis actually deliver? Pakistan is holding its cards very closely" ...

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U.S. Drone Strikes Fail To Mobilise Pakistan Masses | Agence France Presse

October 30, 2011

The non-partisan New America Foundation think tank puts the figure at 20 per cent. The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism said in August that 775 civilians could have been killed since 2004, including 168 children. ...

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Budget Cuts' Cost, in U.S. Jobs | Defense News

October 30, 2011

William Hartung, an analyst at the Center for International Policy, said Pentagon planners need more than a rough estimate of total jobs that might be lost amid budget cuts. They note, for example, that some jobs are harder to fill than others; ...

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Undead Men Walking: Zombie Phenomenon Spreads Like a Virus | The State Journal-Register

October 30, 2011

“If you work in the many white-collar fields that have suffered in this recession, zombies are the perfect representation of the fiscal horror show,” wrote Torie Bosch. “The zombie apocalypse is a white-collar nightmare: a world with no need for the ...

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Zombie Zeal: The Undead Are Living Large this Halloween | Denver Post

October 29, 2011

"What's new about the current zombie craze is its white-collar shine," writes Torie Bosch in Slate. "It's the existential fear of the economy writ large: 'I sometimes wonder what I would do if I lost everything.' " Zombies have long figured in folklore ...

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Author Sees Many Nations of U.S. | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

October 29, 2011

In that book, Joel Garreau — like Woodard, a journalist — tossed out the notion of states and regrouped North America into nine cleverly named "nations," like the Breadbasket and the Foundry. But while Garreau's book had a playful edge, Woodard's is ...

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Keep Smiling... The World Is Doing Fine, Say American Authors | The Guardian (London)

October 29, 2011

Writer Charles Kenny's book, Getting Better, was published this summer and examined positive trends in global development. Kenny argued that the worldwide effort to get hundreds of millions of people out of poverty is working. Statistics on health and ...

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As Gas Use Declines, Americans Still Spend More on Gas | Fast Company

October 27, 2011

That's the frustrating conclusion of a new report from the New America Foundation called The Price-Induced Energy Trap: Exploring the Impacts of Transportation Expenditures on the American Economy. According to the report, by the end of 2011, ...

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Iraq Syndrome | Truthout

October 27, 2011

“If any good comes of the Iraq war,” Michael Lind wrote recently in Salon, “it will come in the form of an Iraq syndrome, like the Vietnam syndrome that made Americans wary of large-scale military intervention abroad from the fall of Saigon in 1975 ...

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