In The News
- in the news | June 09, 2014 | Fellows
Tyson Foods Wins Hillshire, Eyes Breakfast Growth
Christopher Leonard, author of the recently released book “The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business”, said the merger would ... - in the news | June 08, 2014 | International Security
How big a terror risk are former Guantanamo prisoners?
Bailey Cahal1 Peter BergenIn order to shed some light on exactly which graduates from Guantanamo have joined a militant group or engaged in some other kind of terrorist acti... - in the news | June 04, 2014 | Fellows
What Does A Good Common Core Lesson Look Like?
In the Internet era, the best resources should be able to easily leap political boundaries and get into the hands of teachers across the country. B... - in the news | June 04, 2014 | Fellows
China, U.S. Tensions Run High At Sea And Under The Sun
But OPEC has the chance to rise again, says Quartz's Steve LeVine. The International Energy Agency has put a 10-year deadline on America's fracking... - in the news | June 04, 2014 | Fellows
Here's What We Know About The Taliban Fighters Obama Just Released From Gitmo
Anand Gopal, an expert on the Taliban at the New America Foundation, thinks some of them could pose a real threat. "Of the five released Taliban," ... - in the news | June 04, 2014 | Future Tense
The Battle Over Private Search
Of all the news to come out of this week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, one update went almost unnoticed: Apple is partnering with a smal... - in the news | June 03, 2014 | International Security
Americans dying for al Qaeda
Nearly 13 years after the 9/11 attacks, many Americans were likely surprised to learn that one of their fellow citizens had committed suicide on be... - in the news | June 02, 2014 | Fellows
What Americans Can Learn From Talking to the Taliban
Anand Gopal was close enough to feel the blast as the Taliban launched rocket-propelled grenades at a NATO fuel tanker in Wardak Province, Afghanis... - in the news | June 02, 2014 | Fellows
How Obama Got Spies Behind Taliban Deal
Anand Gopal, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of No Good Men Among the Living, a history of the Afghan conflict, agreed. “I a... - in the news | June 02, 2014 | Fellows
How The Bergdahl Deal Went Down
Anand Gopal, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of No Good Men Among the Living, a history of the Afghan conflict, agreed. “I a... - in the news | May 30, 2014 | Fellows
Tyson Enters Bidding For Hillshire Brands With $6.1 Billion Offer
"Consumers already have limited choices in the meat aisle of the grocery store," said Christopher Leonard, a fellow at the New America Foundation a... -
A Remedy for Amazon-Hachette Fight?
Amazon only this week acknowledged the storm it raised earlier this month when it made it much harder for consumers to buy books by Hachette, a maj... - in the news | May 28, 2014 | International Security
Obama says goodbye to American hubris
What is the Obama Doctrine? As the President put it Wednesday, "Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail." - in the news | May 23, 2014 | Future of War
Obama has put Pakistan drone war on hold
And, indeed, it is long past time for the United States to transition away from a state of perpetual war now that the threat from al Qaeda to Ameri... - in the news | May 19, 2014 | Future Tense
The Rise of Blogger-Activists, and the Regimes that Rule by Fear
Emily Parker, author of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, joins the program to explain how the Internet is helping to change activism. Click here to ... -
Obama Should Fire His FCC Chairman
We could’ve seen this coming. Amazon, embroiled in protracted negotiations over new contract terms with the book publisher Hachette, is using its m... - in the news | May 19, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
Ousting Women Leaders
It's more than 'management style'
In June 2011, Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock praised the company’s first female chief executive, Carol Bartz, at the annual shareholder meeting. She wa... - in the news | May 15, 2014 | International Security
U.S. military UAV guys talk a good game, but do they have their eye on the ball?
America needs better training for the technology it already has. That, and a major doctrinal shift. - in the news | May 15, 2014 | International Security
How Islamic is Pakistan’s Constitution
A lot has happened since that first, subsequently failed, formal meeting between the government and the Taliban negotiation team in the "journey fo... -
A Decision That Helped Shape Michelle Obama | The New York Times
New AmericaLiza Mundy: "Race for her has been a little bit of a third rail, an area in which she’s had to be careful...I don’t feel like she has unleashed the... - in the news | May 14, 2014 | Future Tense
‘Net Neutrality’ Puts FCC at Center of Storm
Silicon Valley is “very frustrated,” said Marvin Ammori, a technology-policy consultant who helped organize a letter of protest to the FCC from mor... - in the news | May 13, 2014 | International Security
Drones will fill the sky
*Not so long ago, killing an American citizen on the other side of the world with an armed drone would have been in the realm of science fiction. *