New America in the News: 2008

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.

Development Paradigm and Mumbai Carnage | Daily Mirror

December 18, 2008
Steve Coll, President of New America Foundation finds the Pakistani Taliban of younger generation as of more violent and radical disposition who have no ...
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CBO Says Health Care Overhaul Will Be Significant Challenge | CQPolitics.com

December 18, 2008
... impact on the trend in health care costs, provided that capacity is not increased,” said the study’s authors, John E. Wennberg and Shannon Brownlee. ...
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Is the Time Finally Right for National Reform? | MarketWatch

December 18, 2008
... 20 years or so," said Jacob Hacker, co-director of the University of California-Berkeley School of Law Center on Health, Economic and Family Security. ...
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Fears Of India-Pakistan Nuclear War Raged In 2002 | NPR

December 18, 2008
New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll says that amid the escalating tensions of 2002, India concluded that going to war was not in its best interests. ...
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Bair Says FDIC Modification Plan 'Gaining Ground' | Reuters

December 17, 2008
"We're discussing this with everybody and we're going to continue our advocacy and hope for the best," Bair said during a New America Foundation housing ...
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Modifying Troubled Mortgages Is Necessary to End Crisis | MarketWatch

December 17, 2008
... borrowers' monthly payments to an affordable and sustainable level," Bair said at a responsible homeownership event at the New America Foundation. ...
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New Report: Public Insurance Option Needed to Provide Affordable ... | MarketWatch

December 17, 2008
The report, by health care expert and UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker, says a public health insurance plan like Medicare offered together with private ...
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After Tough Year, Republicans Mull Next Steps | NewsHour

December 17, 2008
REIHAN SALAM: Unfortunately, no. I think that one real danger for the Republican Party is that the Republican base is veering far away from the mainstream ...
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Bush, Democrats' Balanced Budget Goals Disintegrate | Reuters

December 17, 2008
"Certainly a decade should be sufficient to climb out of this," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
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UNC Professor to Debate Response to Housing Crisis | WRAL.com

December 16, 2008
... along with Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and others will speak at a forum hosted by the New America Foundation. ...
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Health CEOs for Health Reform | Kaiser Network.org

December 16, 2008
Paul Testa of the New America Foundation's New Health Dialogue reports on an NAF event unveiling a new coalition of Health CEOs for Health Reform. ...
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Eight Years in Office, A $10.6 Trillion Debt

December 16, 2008
Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, fears the "next big bubble" will be a "government debt bubble." ... Outside Article
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A World of Issues Waiting, Obama and His Foreign Policy Squad Brush Up | New York Times

December 16, 2008
Mr. Obama, having finished Steve Coll’s “Ghost Wars,” is now reading “Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet,” by the economist Jeffrey D. Sachs. ...
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Paris Case Raises a Concern for US Shoppers | Washington Times

December 16, 2008
Michael A. Cohen, a foreign policy senior research fellow at the centrist New America Foundation, said shopping malls are quite vulnerable to such attacks..."I think one of the reasons why it hasn't happened here is al Qaeda seems to prefer larger operations - 9/11 is a good example," he said. "I don't think [a mall] has enough symbolism for them." ...
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Obama Signals Change for HUD | The Washington Independent

December 16, 2008
Ellen Seidman of the New America Foundation, who studies the financial services industry, said friends she knew worked for Cisneros sometimes thought “blow ...
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Obama’s Choice of Duncan Wins Praise From Educators, Lawmakers | CQPolitics.com

December 16, 2008
“His record in Chicago is a strong one,” said Sara Mead, director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation. ...
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Academic Bowl Championship Series | ESPN/Tuesday Morning Quarterback

December 16, 2008
Lindsey Luebchow of the New America Foundation asks that question here. She concludes that if academics were factored into big-college football, ...
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So What Exactly Does a "Climate Czar" Do, Anyway? | Plenty Magazine

December 15, 2008
Former climate-policy aide to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Terry Tamminen, who advised Obama’s environmental transition team and who was ...
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Al-Qaeda Attack | Council on Foreign Relations

December 15, 2008
Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation considers speculation of an al-Qaeda attack on the United States in the early days of the Obama ...
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New Report to Highlight Need for Public Health Insurance Plan ... | MarketWatch

December 15, 2008
Max Baucus, will join health care expert and UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker and Institute for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey on a conference ...
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