In The News
- in the news | December 09, 2014 | Fellows International Security
Nuclear Negotiations, Scientific Literacy, and U.S.-India Relations
The role of scientific literacy in the nuclear negotiations with India manifested itself in three distinct manners: the science that directly infor... - in the news | December 09, 2014 | Future of War
Offset this! China's hypersonic glider flies for the third time this year.
Peter Warren SingerIt's been a fast year for Chinese hypersonic technology. The WU-14 hypersonic glider vehicle (HGV) flew for a third time on December 2, 2014. The t... - in the news | December 09, 2014 | Future of War
War of the Words
If the government wants to protect infrastructure from cyberthreats, it needs to figure out what’s “super critical” and what’s just “critical.”
But the problem with these attempts to prioritize critical infrastructure sectors is that these terms are applied inconsistently, and there seems t... - in the news | December 08, 2014 | Future of War International Security
Should U.S. Change Its Policies For Hostage Situations?
Shane Harris joins MSNBC's The Reid Report to discuss the failed Special Forces attempt to rescue an American hostage held by al Qaeda and U.S. pol... - in the news | December 08, 2014 | Fellows
One big thing Washington could do
Washington is obsessed with the question of whether government can do anything anymore. With the lame duck session of Congress mired in confrontati... - in the news | December 08, 2014 | International Security
Uruguay just took 6 Guantanamo detainees. Who will take the rest?
“While the transfer to Uruguay may prompt some other South American countries to take in released Guantanamo detainees, it really is too difficult ... - in the news | December 07, 2014 | International Security
How the ISIS war looks from Baghdad
Douglas OllivantOllivant, who recently returned from a visit to Baghdad surveying the military and political situation, sat down with me to talk about what he saw.... - in the news | December 07, 2014 | Open Technology Institute
The unstoppable rise of the global surveillance profiteers
If you draw restrictions that are overly broad, you catch up technologies that have legitimate uses and harm the country’s business interests,” exp... - in the news | December 06, 2014 | Fellows
Why Congress is broken: tax extenders edition
Tax experts generally think some breaks that have been perpetually extended should be made permanent (the ones that make decent policy sense, like ... - in the news | December 06, 2014 | Fellows
Use of Executive Action
Julian Zelizer talked by remote video from New York City about President Obama’s use of executive action since the 2014 election. He talked about t... - in the news | December 05, 2014 | International Security
Federal News Countdown: A wonk in the Pentagon, ISIS threat
Guests on the Federal News Countdown: Sharon Burke, senior adviser, International Security Program, New America Steve Bucci, director, Douglas and ... - in the news | December 05, 2014 | International Security
In and Out of Time in Iraq
Tom RicksIn the spring of 2004, there simultaneously was a Shiite uprising on one side of Baghdad and a Sunni one west of the city, in Fallujah. Yet, the Am... -
Obama finds second wind after election drubbing
"After the elections, all these discussions about this lameduck presidency actually offered a little space for him to show that's not the case," sa... - in the news | December 05, 2014 | Future of War
Why Ashton Carter won’t go against the White House
Douglas OllivantPresident Obama nominated Ashton Carter as Defense Secretary on Friday. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports on Carter’s defense background. Then, Ret. A... - in the news | December 05, 2014 | Fellows
What would happen if the government shut down — and didn’t reopen?
Which Julian Zelizer, political historian at Princeton University, thinks provided a murky picture of the damage a shutdown could do. "The last rou... - in the news | December 05, 2014 | Education Policy
From Ferguson to New York City, Education Reformers Have No Right to Claim Silence
This isn’t to say that all school reformers have been silent. Individual reformers, including Groff, Conor P. Williams of the New America Foundatio... - in the news | December 05, 2014 | Political Reform
Is it possible to spend too much money in politics? Sheldon Adelson is about to find out.
Good politics might be described as the art of cloaking your special interest in the general interest. But when you become the symbol of big money ... - in the news | December 04, 2014 | Education Policy
Why Progressives Have Ignored Deaths Like Eric Garner's For Years
The protests have never been about one incident. They've never been about one particular tragic death. These are protests against unceasing, unacco... - in the news | December 04, 2014 | Future of War
Sony Hack Attack: Cybersecurity Expert Reveals How Massive Breach Might Have Happened
Peter Warren SingerPeter W. Singer, former director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and the author of ”Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Every... - in the news | December 03, 2014 | Fellows
Christie Heads to Canada on Energy Mission After Mexico
Julian Zelizer,who teaches history and public affairs at Princeton University, said the trip also allows Christie to show himself as a statesman, a...