New America in the News: 2012

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.

Is Karl Rove's Media Career Kaput? | Christian Science Monitor

December 5, 2012

It's all part of an effort by head honcho Roger Ailes to freshen story lines and change the network's cast of characters, writes New York's Gabriel Sherman. It didn't help that Rove and Mr. Morris both predicted a big election victory for Mitt Romney ...

More Cracks in the Credit Hour | Inside Higher Ed

December 5, 2012

Any reforms to the credit hour will need to be thoughtful and deliberate, according to Amy Laitinen, deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation and author of its recent credit hour report. The reason, she said, is that releasing ...

Frank Rich on the National Circus: The Fiscal Cliff is the Y2K Of 2012 | New York Magazine

December 5, 2012

What I found more interesting was our colleague Gabriel Sherman's report that in the aftermath of the Election Night embarrassment, Ailes has downsized the air time on Fox allotted to Karl Rove and Dick Morris, who between them called almost everything ...

Famous Fox News Faces 'Get Dumped Off Air' | Wnd.Com

December 5, 2012

“According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff,” reports Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine. “He wants the faces associated with the election off the air – for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris – a pair of pundits ...

Conference Take Up How to Govern the Internet | Salon

December 5, 2012

Just as important will be developing what Internet scholar Rebecca MacKinnon calls “a basic values framework” for ICANN, one that safeguards certain freedoms for Internet users regardless of what is decided by bureaucrats in closed-door meetings.

Fox News Suspends Karl Rove Over Election Night On-Air Tantrum | Cleveland Leader

December 5, 2012

According to New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman, Ailes decided that it is important for Fox News to take a step back from Rove and Morris because the election is over. Ailes' deputy Bill Shine reportedly sent a memo to all of the network's news ...

Conference Takes Up How To Govern The Internet | Salon

December 5, 2012

Just as important will be developing what Internet scholar Rebecca MacKinnon calls “a basic values framework” for ICANN, one that safeguards certain freedoms for Internet users regardless of what is decided by bureaucrats in closed-door meetings.

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Countering Online Radicalization With More Engagement | Epoch Times

December 5, 2012

Dr. Peter Neumann and author Peter Bergen speak at the launch of the report 'Countering online radicalization in America' at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C., Dec 4. Neumann believes engagement, rather than censorship, is a more ...

End of the Peace Process? | Washington Jewish Week

December 5, 2012

The lopsided vote "sends a message that despite U.S. and Israeli opposition, there is global support" for Palestinian political aspirations, said Leila Hilal, director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force. "The vote was largely ...

Washington, Suriye Için Hareketleniyor | Usasabah

December 5, 2012

Uluslararası Kriz Grubu Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika Bölge Direktörü Rob Malley, New America Foundation Orta Doğu Barış Gücü Direktörü Leila Hilal, Ulusal İran-Amerikan Konseyi Başkanı Trita Parsi ve SETA-DC Direktörü Erol Cebeci'nin konuşmacı olarak ...

Un Buen Regalo Para Tus Hijos | Te Interesa

December 5, 2012

Lisa Guernsey ofrece una pista en la revista 'Time' para despejar la incógnita: cuando se trata de niños pequeños, el éxito de un regalo no depende tanto del juguete escogido como de lo que está pasando alrededor. Guernsey cita las conclusiones de un ...

Carnegie, the Founder of the Credit-Hour, Seeks Its Makeover | The Chronicle of Higher Education

December 5, 2012

"If the founder is saying, 'There's something wrong with the unit itself,' it adds a lot of weight and gravitas to the question: What is it that we're actually measuring?" said Amy Laitinen, deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation, a think tank. She is also the author of "Cracking the Credit Hour," a report that argues that the unit is at the root of much of what plagues higher education.

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Karl Rove, Dick Morris Sidelined By Fox News | Truthdig

December 5, 2012

According to New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman, that edict came from none other than Fox News President Roger Ailes himself. That the two were not accurate election forecasters like The New York Times' Nate Silver is perhaps the main reason they've ...

Can Fox Still Hand-Pick a President? | The Atlantic Wire

December 4, 2012

Ailes was unhappy with the Republican presidential field when he made his overtures to Petraeus in 2011, as New York's Gabriel Sherman reported in May 2011. The Fox contributors who were likely candidates — Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin ...

Karl Rove Taken Off the Air as Fox News Distances Themselves From Conservative Pundit After His Election Night Tantrum | Daily Mail

December 4, 2012

New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reports that Ailes decided that it is important for Fox News to take a step back from Rove and Morris because, as his deputy Bill Shine put it, 'the election's over'. Shine reportedly sent a memo to all of the ...

Tax Deduction Limits May Trim Deficits, But Not Easily | New York Times

December 4, 2012

Instead, Republican aides cited a nine-page paper last month from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a centrist business-supported group dedicated to lower deficits, with three options for limiting deductions as an alternative to letting ...

Fiscal Cliff 2013: The Campaign to Fix the Debt Tackles the Fiscal Cliff Crisis | Policymic

December 4, 2012

Joining with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, they sponsored the conference in Washington, DC. The conference featured two notable bipartisan roundtables of experts in tax and healthcare policy. Moderated by Bloomberg Chief Washington ...

Europe's Big Powers Unify to Push Against Israel Settlement Plans | Christian Science Monitor

December 4, 2012

"I think there is as much of an effort as possible, in general, to get an 'E3' consensus especially," says Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator currently working as the director of the Midle East and North Africa Program at the London-based European Council on Foreign Relations, a pan-European ...

REPORT: Fox News is Taking Karl Rove Off the Air | Business Insider

December 4, 2012

New York's Gabriel Sherman reports that Fox News is scaling back airtime for Republican pundit Karl Rove, in what appears to be a reprimand for Rove's meltdown during the network's live election broadcast. Sources told Sherman that Fox News chief Roger Ailes ...

Yes, Hamas and Iran Are Still the Best of Friends | New York Daily News

December 4, 2012

A prime exemplar of this tendency is Robert Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books about religion and evolutionary psychology who has lately taken to polemicizing about foreign policy. In a recent item for The Atlantic, where he is a ...

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