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Islamic State Militants Said to Challenge Al-Qaeda for Jihadi Leadership | Bloomberg
New AmericaBrian Fishman: “Since the late ’90s, al-Qaeda has been focused on prioritizing attacks against the U.S.” while the upstart Islamic State and its pr... - in the news | August 14, 2014 | International Security
The Bursting Kurdish Bubble
All of these things have allowed ISIS to continue their advance and drive at the heart of the Kurdish independent region, i.e. oil refineries in th... -
What the U.S. can realistically do in Iraq | CNN
Over the past few days, politicians and experts have been debating the merits of the Obama administration's strategy in Iraq — or whether there is ... -
Free wifi is coming to LA’s parks, but is that a good thing? | KPCC
New AmericaSix public parks in the Los Angeles area are about to get a bit more connected---Echo Park Lake, the Griffith Observatory, Cabrillo Beach, Venice B... -
Freedom Act Leaves IT Sector at Risk for Spy Program Costs | E-Commerce Times
"We are looking at billions of dollars of potential losses for U.S. companies as individuals, businesses, and foreign governments turn away from Am... -
The Most Influential of 2014: Edward Snowden | CRN
"Our findings indicate that the actions of the National Security Agency have already begun and will continue to cause significant damage to the int... -
Costs of the NSA | Federal News Radio
It's been more than a year since Edward Snowden first leaked news of the National Security Agency's collecting metadata on Americans. While the jur... -
Iraq in Crisis: Is a Coup d'État Inevitable? | Bloomberg
New AmericaNew America Foundation's Tara Maller, Col. Cedric Leighton, former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Bloomberg's Phil Mattingly discuss the ... -
Political Unrest, Airstrikes Rock Iraq | SCPR
New AmericaDouglas Ollivant, senior National Security Fellow at the New America Foundation, talked to Take Two on Monday about the situations brewing in Iraq. -
Cities Are Fighting States over Municipal Broadband | Governing
*Communities don’t raise and spend the large sums of money it takes to jump into the broadband business unless they are unserved or underserved by ... -
Permanent Campaigner | Financial Times
New AmericaMark Schmitt: "That’s the core conflict within the centre left of the Democratic party, but it is hard to say exactly how it is fixed,” says Mark S... -
U.S. Actions in Iraq Fueled Rise of a Rebel | New York Times
New America“He has credibility because he runs half of Iraq and half of Syria,” said Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism researcher at the New America Foundatio... -
Tracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old | New York Times
Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in... - 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. -
Why Obama Will Bomb Syria | Politico
New AmericaAs the terrorism analysts Doug Ollivant and Brian Fishman have noted, ISIL “holds territory, provides limited services, dispenses a form of justice... -
WiFi to the Rescue? | The Wave
For Josh Breitbart of the OTI, the success of the mesh network is really up to the community. He says it builds on neighbor-to-neighbor connections... -
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria | Council on Foreign Relations
New America"For al-Qaeda, attaching its name to Zarqawi's activities enabled it to maintain relevance even as its core forces were destroyed [in Afghanistan] ... -
SketchFactor app for unsafe areas in racism row | BBC
"Technology is only as good as the people who form part of its developer and user community," Seeta Peña Gangadharan, a senior research fellow at t... -
Obama: Iraq action will be limited | USA Today
New America"We could be in this game for a long time," said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow with the New America Foundation and director for Iraq at the Nat... -
The Dangers of High-Tech Profiling, Using Big Data
The rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech enterp... -
Will U.S. Troops Stand By While ISIS Starves Thousands? | Daily Beast
New AmericaThe situation is dire, but legal constraints may limit U.S. options for direct assistance to the Kurds, said Douglas Ollivant, a former U.S. Army o... -
Last-ditch Efforts May Fail to Save Gaza Truce | Aljazeera America
New AmericaSpeaking to Al Jazeera from Washington, DC, Leila Hilal, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said: "We could very well see a resumption ...