In The News
- in the news | September 17, 2014 | Fellows
UN Leader Plans Stronger Presence in Ebola Zone
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/world/africa/ebola-world-bank-west-africa-economy.html - in the news | September 16, 2014 | Fellows
Obama Presses Leaders to Speed Ebola Response
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/world/africa/obama-urges-world-powers-to-bolster-ebola-response.html - in the news | September 15, 2014 | Fellows
What a do-nothing Congress actually does
By doing nothing, Congress is actually doing a lot, though the consequences are not very pretty. - in the news | September 14, 2014 | International Security
Beheading Aims to Shake Anti-Islamic State, But May Strengthen It Instead
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/09/14/beheading_aims_to_shake_anti_islamic_state_coalition_but_may_strengthen_it_instead?wp_login_redi... - in the news | September 12, 2014 | Fellows
The Mouse That Roars
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/12/the_mouse_that_roars_jordan_spies_islamic_state_isis - in the news | September 08, 2014 | Fellows
Congress Unites to Screw the Hungry
Monica PottsA new government report shows that millions of Americans are struggling to afford enough food. So why are Democrats and the GOP gutting food stamps? - in the news | September 03, 2014 | Fellows
Why Obama needs to be the explainer in chief
After weeks of vague pronouncements on world events, President Obama finally spoke forcefully Wednesday. The President needs to to be doing more of... - in the news | September 01, 2014 | Fellows
Government Has Failed the Mentally Ill
Monica PottsAmericans suffering from mental illness often have trouble finding good treatment they can afford, in large part due to cuts to needed government p... - in the news | August 28, 2014 | Fellows
Alibaba's IPO May Herald the End of U.S. E-Commerce
“One of the top values that employees are asked to follow is to embrace change,” says documentary filmmaker Hao Wu, who worked at the company in 20... - in the news | August 26, 2014 | Fellows
China courts documentaries as it limits expression
Independent filmmaker Hao Wu was one who benefited from the push — sort of. - in the news | August 21, 2014 | Fellows
The cure for cancer that parents won’t use
Meredith WadmanNot so long ago, when my sons still had smooth cheeks and children’s voices, I had them vaccinated against human papillomavirus, the most common se... - in the news | August 08, 2014 | Fellows
The Big, Long, 30-Year Conservative Lie
Monica PottsInequality, conservatives insist, is natural. Trying to combat it will slow growth. Well, guess who now says otherwise? Standard and Poor’s. -
Trust and Economic Growth in China
Guests include Madeleine Lynn, Director of Communications at Carnegie Council; Evan Osnos, staff writer at The New Yorker; Hao Wu, fellow at the Ne... - in the news | August 01, 2014 | Fellows
Why China's Second-Baby Boom Might Not Happen
“Every metric thus far indicates the loosening isn’t leading to a baby boom,” says Mei Fong, author of a forthcoming book on China’s population pol... -
Kurdish oil tanker off Texas coast ... huh? | Christian Science Monitor
New AmericaSteve LeVine of Quartz reported on July 24 that the State Department has decided to stop actively fighting the sale of Kurdish oil. Instead, US off... -
Abdullah Holds Powerful Cards in Afghan Election Crisis | Radio Free Europe
Anand Gopal, author of "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes" and a fellow at the Washington-based N... - in the news | July 09, 2014 | Fellows
Bush Trifecta Lands on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan Imploding
Anand Gopal has argued convincingly that US troops left in Afghanistan got drawn into tribal feuds and destabilized the south and east of the count... - in the news | July 09, 2014 | Fellows
The Costs of Big Data
The article itself, by education journalist Anya Kamenetz, describes Purdue's Course Signals, a kind of semiautomated system to alert students to w... - in the news | June 30, 2014 | Fellows
How to Get Famous
Hao Wu - on his documentary film "The Road To Fame" about the dreams of young acting students at the prestigious acting school in Beijing. - in the news | June 26, 2014 | Fellows
You Should Ditch Work to Go Watch Soccer, Say Productivity Experts
Christine Rosen, a fellow at the New America Foundation who studies our interactions with technology, pointed to the perils of multitasking. - in the news | June 24, 2014 | Fellows
What Afghans Think About Bergdahl, the Taliban, and U.S. Intervention
Q&A with Author Anand Gopal Click here to view the full segment - in the news | June 16, 2014 | Fellows
How Should The U.S. Leave Afghanistan?
As New America Fellow Anand Gopal recently wrote, "The categories we take as rigid and unchanging, such as 'terrorist', are in fact remarkably flui...