New America in the News: 2011

President, Bashar al-Assad, has warned that western action against Syria would result in another Afghanistan: "It is the faultline, and if you play with the ground, you will cause an earthquake because Syria sits at the heart of the volatile Middle East". What makes the riots in Syria different to the rest of the Arab Spring? Guest Randa Slim comments.

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"We're so enamoured with the robot-attack story line that it can skew the way real robot-safety issues are discussed," journalist Torie Bosch wrote in Slate. But with robots becoming increasingly advanced, is there a line where an error could become a ...

... Critics say accreditors have failed to protect students and taxpayers from programs that lure students with false promises of employment. "Accreditors have been asleep at the switch while abuses have occurred right under their noses," said Stephen Burd, of the New America Foundation, who has chronicled the recent scandals involving job placements in his blog, Higher Ed Watch. ...

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The invitation of author Peter Beinart, whose essay drew attention to this problem last year, to the recent General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America highlighted the Jewish establishment's effort to grapple with this problem. ...

"The revenue number is far short of what's needed to get a deal," Maya McGuineas, president of the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said of the GOP Super Committee proposal. Yet it is an opening. Many Democrats have already ...

Timothy Naftali said he would be joining the New America Foundation think tank and completing a book on Nixon's political rival, John F. Kennedy. "I have much broader intellectual interests than Richard Nixon's presidency, and I'm going back to them," ...

"For the first time since this process started, I'm thinking it's more likely than not that they come away with a deal," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a leading proponent of a large deficit deal. ...

... lift the ceiling and put in place the 'Super Committee' that would come forth with a deal to bring the debt down as much as they lifted the debt ceiling," says Maya MacGuineas of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

“I have much broader intellectual interests than Richard Nixon's presidency, and I'm going back to them,” said Naftali, who will also join the New America Foundation, a think tank, as a senior research fellow. Naftali's most visible imprint on the ...