New America in the News: 2011

US government officials have continuously neglected to mention that about 90 percent of those killed in the drone attacks are low-level militants, most of whom are unidentified. And according to New America Foundation, about 20 percent of those killed ...

"Pakistan's refusal to attend the Bonn conference is indicative of a broader discontent in the region towards the U.S.-led reconciliation approach of 'fight, talk, build,'" said Shamila Chaudhary, who was director for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the U.S. National Security Council until earlier this year and is now an analyst at the Eurasia Group ...

Tamar Jacoby on a bill to ease visa restrictions on high-skilled immigrants.

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Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, called passage of the bill a "critical breakthrough" toward fixing the nation's immigration system. "The per country caps that would be phased out by this legislation are among the most absurd and ...

Journalist Peter Beinart and wife Diana, a lawyer, sold a four-bedroom, five-bath Federal-style rowhouse in Georgetown for $2 million. Built in 1900, the house has five fireplaces. Former editor of the New Republic, Peter Beinart is a political writer ...

Hartung (a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation's American Strategy Program) isn't the only one who saw advantages in a committee deadlock. But Hartung makes a particularly important point. Failure - and the legislated threat it creates ...

Stephen Burd at the New America Foundation's Higher Ed Watch wrote in 2008, “Still, Sallie Mae won't overtly admit fault and poor management. Instead, the company and its promoters on Wall Street have been testing another explanation for its ...

Jason Peuquet, policy analyst with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said Congress' biggest problem is that it's trying to tackle these proposals one at a time, instead of as part of a comprehensive package that simultaneously reins in ...

... However, Congress exempted Pell grants from sequesters in 2010, in a pay-as-you-go law (PL 111-139), said Jason Delisle, a higher-education expert at the New America Foundation. Because that applies only to mandatory funding, and Pell grants are funded through mandatory and discretionary dollars, some have interpreted the exemption to apply only to the mandatory-funding portion of the grants. ...