New America in the News: 2010

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.

Analysis: Waziristan Drone Strategy Comes with Much Baggage | National Post

October 4, 2010

... The New America Foundation, a think-tank whose compilation of drone strikes from media reports led to the graphic display on the opposite page, estimates the civilian casualty rate has been ...

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Statements zu EU-Konsultation über Netzneutralität | Telekom Presse

October 4, 2010

Ende der Woche wurden eine Reihe von Stellungnahmen zur Konsultation der EU-Kommission über Open Internet und Netzneutralität abgegeben Unter anderem vom Communications Consumer Panel in UK und eine gemeinsame Stellungnahme von Electronic Frontier Finland, New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, Hispalinux, Global Partners & Associates, Open Rights Group und der Open Spectrum Alliance. ...

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More Questions Than Answers At SF Healthcare Reform Panel | SFAppeal

October 4, 2010

... "People have asked me: when is healthcare reform going to kick in?" said Micah Weinberg, senior research fellow at New American Foundation. "And I don't have the answer they want to hear." ...

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Teachers Must Empathize to Motivate | The Lexington Herald Leader

October 4, 2010

... cover story in Time magazine, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley asks one of the most important questions of our day, "What makes a great school? ...

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CIA Backed by Military Drones in Pakistan | The Washington Post

October 4, 2010

... The intensification of the drone campaign is unprecedented in scale. According to records kept by the New America Foundation, the 22 strikes the CIA is known to have carried out in September nearly doubled the previous monthly record, ...

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Threat of Global Warming Sparks U.S. Interest in Geoengineering | The Washington Post

October 4, 2010

At a conference last week sponsored by Arizona State University, the New America Foundation and Slate magazine, University of Maryland distinguished ...

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CIA Using Drones in Pakistan | United Press International

October 3, 2010

Records kept by the New America Foundation said that is almost twice the previous monthly record, which was set in January after seven agency personnel died ...

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Eliza Griswold's 'The Tenth Parallel': Where Christianity and Islam Meet | The Seattle Times

October 2, 2010

Eliza Griswold's "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam" examines the land along the line of latitude 700 miles ...

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U.S. to Issue European Travel Alert | The Wall Street Journal

October 2, 2010

... in Pakistan in September, in part, to disrupt the suspected plot. There were 22 reported strikes in September, according to the New America Foundation.

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Al Qaeda Leader Osama Bin Laden Pleads for Muslims to Help Pakistan's Flood Victims | New York Daily News

October 1, 2010

"It's proof of life" for Al Qaeda's rank and file, said terror expert Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, who once met the Saudi behind 9/11. ...

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Poll: U.S. Strikes Unpopular in Pakistan Tribal Belt | The Associated Press

October 1, 2010

The poll by the New America Foundation and Terror Free Tomorrow was described as "the first comprehensive public opinion survey covering sensitive political ...

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Statistics: Life Under Drones | Globe And Mail

October 1, 2010

The only comprehensive survey conducted in the rugged areas of western Pakistan was published this week by The New America Foundation, a think tank based in ...

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Net Neutrality Spin Wars Ramp Up | National Journal

October 1, 2010

According to Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, the FCC may not act unless the White House comes out ...

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Poll: Most Pakistanis Oppose Drone Strikes | The Washington Times

October 1, 2010

The unprecedented poll, conducted by the New America Foundation and Terror Free Tomorrow, found more than three-quarters of FATA residents oppose US drone ...

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U.S. Intensifies Drone Strikes in Pakistan | The Los Angeles Times

September 30, 2010

Of the 22 drone strikes that the U.S. has reportedly carried out in Pakistan during September, all but three were in North Waziristan, according to Year of the Drone, a website that follows news reports about the attacks.

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Rise in Cross-Border Attacks Spurs Backlash | Inter Press Service

September 30, 2010

... The attack near Miranshah was the latest in more than 120 drone strikes and more than double the number authorised under George W. Bush, according to the New America Foundation (NAF), a Washington-based think tank. ...

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Waxman Holds Off On Google-Verizon Internet Copycat Bill | COLORLINES

September 30, 2010

... “It’s a case of the chairman not having a stomach for being a regulator,” Joshua Breitbart, a policy analyist with the New America Foundation said in an interview with ColorLines. “It’s not a fun job. You can’t go in and expect everybody to like you. He doesn’t wanna take the heat.” ...

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Powerful Move To Short-Circuit the Exchange | California Healthline

September 30, 2010

... Micah Weinberg is a research fellow in health policy at New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute. "On the anti-exchange side, the charge is being led by Anthem Blue Cross and the [California] Chamber of Commerce," Weinberg said. "On the other side, he's getting pressure from what you might call the California health reform coalition, ...

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Book Review: 'The Tenth Parallel' By Eliza Griswold | The Los Angeles Times

September 30, 2010

Blame it, Eliza Griswold suggests, on overweening hubris and nearsightedness. But don't blame the cultural divide between Islam and Christianity on those ...

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Health Care: The Disquieting Truth

September 30, 2010

... In an epilogue written with Shannon Brownlee (the journalist and author of the excellent 2007 book Overtreated), Wennberg assesses the recent health care legislation, ...

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