New America in the News: 2012

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.

Countering Online Radicalization With More Engagement | Epoch Times

December 5, 2012

Dr. Peter Neumann and author Peter Bergen speak at the launch of the report 'Countering online radicalization in America' at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C., Dec 4. Neumann believes engagement, rather than censorship, is a more ...

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End of the Peace Process? | Washington Jewish Week

December 5, 2012

The lopsided vote "sends a message that despite U.S. and Israeli opposition, there is global support" for Palestinian political aspirations, said Leila Hilal, director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force. "The vote was largely ...

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Washington, Suriye Için Hareketleniyor | Usasabah

December 5, 2012

Uluslararası Kriz Grubu Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika Bölge Direktörü Rob Malley, New America Foundation Orta Doğu Barış Gücü Direktörü Leila Hilal, Ulusal İran-Amerikan Konseyi Başkanı Trita Parsi ve SETA-DC Direktörü Erol Cebeci'nin konuşmacı olarak ...

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Un Buen Regalo Para Tus Hijos | Te Interesa

December 5, 2012

Lisa Guernsey ofrece una pista en la revista 'Time' para despejar la incógnita: cuando se trata de niños pequeños, el éxito de un regalo no depende tanto del juguete escogido como de lo que está pasando alrededor. Guernsey cita las conclusiones de un ...

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Carnegie, the Founder of the Credit-Hour, Seeks Its Makeover | The Chronicle of Higher Education

December 5, 2012

"If the founder is saying, 'There's something wrong with the unit itself,' it adds a lot of weight and gravitas to the question: What is it that we're actually measuring?" said Amy Laitinen, deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation, a think tank. She is also the author of "Cracking the Credit Hour," a report that argues that the unit is at the root of much of what plagues higher education.

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Karl Rove, Dick Morris Sidelined By Fox News | Truthdig

December 5, 2012

According to New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman, that edict came from none other than Fox News President Roger Ailes himself. That the two were not accurate election forecasters like The New York Times' Nate Silver is perhaps the main reason they've ...

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Why Are So Many Professional Millennial Women Unable to Find Dateable Men? | Forbes

December 5, 2012

In fact, as author Liza Mundy writes in her book, The Richer Sex, Millennial women are increasingly finding two options when it comes to romance: marry down or don't marry. “There needs to be a cognitive behavior change in what are [considered ...

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It Isn't Easy Being Fox | The American Prospect

December 5, 2012

Fox News has been in the news a bunch over the last two days, with stories like Roger Ailes' wooing of David Petraeus, and now the discovery by Gabriel Sherman of New York that the network has benched Karl Rove and Dick Morris, though for slightly ...

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Why Fox Benched Karl Rove And Dick Morris | The Daily Beast

December 5, 2012

New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reports that Ailes has issued an edict: Neither man can be booked without the approval of top management.A Fox spokesman confirmed this to the magazine with the words: “The election's over.” Could this simply ...

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Fox News Reportedly Benches Karl Rove After Election Meltdown | Los Angeles Times

December 5, 2012

If a report out Wednesday from Gabriel Sherman at New York magazine is to be believed, Fox News is now trying to distance itself from Rove's election-night shenanigans by strictly limiting his on-air appearances. Joining him on the bench will be Dick ...

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Is Karl Rove's Media Career Kaput? | Christian Science Monitor

December 5, 2012

It's all part of an effort by head honcho Roger Ailes to freshen story lines and change the network's cast of characters, writes New York's Gabriel Sherman. It didn't help that Rove and Mr. Morris both predicted a big election victory for Mitt Romney ...

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More Cracks in the Credit Hour | Inside Higher Ed

December 5, 2012

Any reforms to the credit hour will need to be thoughtful and deliberate, according to Amy Laitinen, deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation and author of its recent credit hour report. The reason, she said, is that releasing ...

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Frank Rich on the National Circus: The Fiscal Cliff is the Y2K Of 2012 | New York Magazine

December 5, 2012

What I found more interesting was our colleague Gabriel Sherman's report that in the aftermath of the Election Night embarrassment, Ailes has downsized the air time on Fox allotted to Karl Rove and Dick Morris, who between them called almost everything ...

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Yes, Hamas and Iran Are Still the Best of Friends | New York Daily News

December 4, 2012

A prime exemplar of this tendency is Robert Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books about religion and evolutionary psychology who has lately taken to polemicizing about foreign policy. In a recent item for The Atlantic, where he is a ...

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Roger Ailes Apparently Tried to Convince General Petraeus to Run for President | Business Insider

December 4, 2012

As Gabriel Sherman, a New York magazine writer whose biography of Ailes will be published next year, pointed out in May 2011, he also tried to persuade Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey ...

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Pre-K on the Range | The American Prospect

December 4, 2012

“In so many other states, you have huge fights over whether pre-K funding should be cut,” says Lisa Guernsey, director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation. “It's forever seen as an extra line at the bottom of the spreadsheet ...

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CFTC Study: High-Frequency Traders Screwing The Little Guy | Washington Times

December 4, 2012

Penned by Nathaniel Popper and Christopher Leonard, it describes in some detail the results of a soon-to-be-released Federal study of high-frequency trading in the futures markets. The study, supervised by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's ...

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Think Tank Prescribes Social Technology to Raise Congress's IQ | Nextgov

December 4, 2012

A report released Tuesday from the New America Foundation urges Congress to make up for its lack of internal expertise by opening up more data to outside groups and by creating a pipeline for those groups to share their insights with lawmakers. The report, written by Research Fellow Lorelei Kelly, ...

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A Look at Washington Monthly's New College Ranking System | Minnesota Public Radio

December 4, 2012

Kevin Carey: Director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. He serves as guest editor of the annual Washington Monthly college guide; Paul Peterson: Henry Lee Shattuck professor of government and director of the Program on ...

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Can Fox Still Hand-Pick a President? | The Atlantic Wire

December 4, 2012

Ailes was unhappy with the Republican presidential field when he made his overtures to Petraeus in 2011, as New York's Gabriel Sherman reported in May 2011. The Fox contributors who were likely candidates — Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin ...

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