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Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning in the Obama State Department, led the charge in a bellicose Washington Post column comparing the president's cautious response to the latest allegations to the Clinton administration's fumbling ...

In a sensible proposal released by the New America Foundation, Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman call for adding a supplement to Social Security that would guarantee all retirees about 60 percent of their average wage in ...

But CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, an Al-Qaeda expert, dismissed that account as completely false. A SEAL Team 6 member interviewed by Bergen told him three SEALs out of the 23-strong team were the first to make it to the top floor of the ...

The Nation's Bryce Covert chats with journalist Dana Goldstein and the Center for American Progress's Melissa Lazarín on the policy, politics and future of preschool. —James Cersonsky. Obama also made a push for increasing the minimum wage in his ...

Dear Mr. President,
 
You promised, days after you were re-elected, that you would lead a national conversation about climate change during your second term. Well, here’s your chance, sir. Yesterday your own administration’s scientists have announced that 2012 was the hottest year on record for the Lower 48 states. This disturbing news provides all the opening you need.

A few others, notably the British journalists Anatol Lieven and Edward Luce, have done so culturally from the inside out. The civilising process is not always neatly cyclical. Many of the stereotypical adjectives associated with the American character ...

The New America Foundation's report on drone use in Pakistan noted that the Guardian had confirmed 193 children's deaths from drone attacks in seven years. It noted that for the deaths of ten militants, 1,400 civilians with no involvement in terrorism ...

Lorelei Kelly of the New America Foundation, an expert at the intersection of technology and policymaking, has been doing extensive research on what has gone wrong on Capitol Hill in the last couple of decades that contributes to the “anti-intellectual ...

Smart Republican strategists—yes, they do exist—acknowledge that their party’s loss of Latinos was critical to President Obama’s re-election. Alienated by Mitt Romney’s call for the “self-deportation” of undocumented immigrants, a whopping 75 percent of Latino voters backed Obama. And they turned out in large enough numbers—nearly 13 million voted, roughly 10 percent of all ballots cast—to make a decisive difference in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the website Latino Decisions, which tracks Latino politics.