McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld is the dark, riveting journey through the panoply of criminal organizations flourishing in an increasingly globalized world, reaching from the sex trade in Bulgaria and internet fraud in Nigeria to the ‘caviar mafia’ in Central Asia and marijuana markets in British Columbia.

Almost ironically, we read in the newspapers every week that their industry is in crisis.  Newspapers across the country are shuttering overseas bureaus, offering buyouts to dozens (even hundreds) of talented journalists, and in the process imperiling their capacity to serve as vital watchdogs over our constitutional system.  How did we end up in a situation where a newspaper like The Washington Post, a fountainhead of Watergate and so much other skeptical and investigative reporting critical to our republic's health, is in serious jeopardy?  From this predicament a heated

On January 30, 2009, the New America Foundation hosted a panel discussion around the release of a Washington Monthly cover story and new proposal in the "Big Ideas" series. Featured speaker Phillip Longman, Senior Fellow at New America and Research Director of the Next Social Contract Initiative, pitched his plan to dramatically increase investment in freight rail infrastructure as part of the

On January 27, 2009, the New America Foundation hosted a panel of GOP thinkers and policymakers to discuss the current status of the Republican Party, the lessons of its defeat in the 2008 election and the challenges it faces in the years ahead.  Featured speaker Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Senior Policy Advisor to McCain for President and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, was followed by responses from New America Foundation Fellows Jim Pinkerton and Reihan Salam.  David Gray