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Penn State Football Legend Joe Paterno Dies At 85 | NPR

January 22, 2012

Final confirmation came in December from the New America Foundation that Penn State football was ranked first academically among the top 25 teams in the country. The night he was fired, Penn State students took to the streets demanding that Paterno ...

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Should the UN Admit Palestine as a Full Member State? | NPR

January 17, 2012

Daniel Levy is co-director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force and an editor for the The Middle East Channel at ForeignPolicy.com. He is a senior fellow at both The Century Foundation and the European Council on Foreign Relations. ...

Dealing With Dictators: Is Exile Or Trial Better? | NPR

December 27, 2011

... "In the case of Syria, the ICC is an important additional tool to apply pressure on Assad," says Leila Hilal, a former Palestinian legal adviser who is now at the New America Foundation. ...

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As the Iraq War Ends, Reassessing the U.S. Surge | NPR

December 16, 2011


Ollivant is now with a Washington think tank, the New America Foundation. He says what happened had less to do with the Americans and more to do with deep political and social forces inside Iraq. "I think it was the Iraqis who essentially figured out ...

At Pop-Up Magazine Shows, No Recordings Allowed | NPR

November 21, 2011


Editor Douglas McGray says the idea came from trying to get different kinds of artists in the same room. "The reason we started it was we felt that filmmakers have their film openings, and artists will have gallery openings, and writers will have their ...

In Indiana, Some Buses Stop Shuttling Kids for Free | NPR

November 8, 2011


"It looks like states have turned the corner on revenue collection," says Jason Delisle, who leads the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project. "That's totally not the story for local revenue. In fact, you know, they're starting to ...

Syria Keeps Pressure on Protesters, Ignores Critics | NPR

October 16, 2011


According to Randa Slim with the New America Foundation, the Syrian regime has no political strategy aside from using violence in an attempt to restore a wall of fear. "This is a policy that was meant by the regime to break down the resolve of the ...

How Declining Birth Rates Hurt Global Economies | NPR

October 3, 2011

A new study about the trend suggests this demographic shift could drag down the global economy. The report is called "The Sustainable Demographic Dividend." Co-author Phillip Longman, a senior research fellow with the New America Foundation, ...

In the Hunt for Al-Qaida, Drone Program Expands | NPR

September 26, 2011


That's what worries Brian Fishman, a counter-terrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation. Expanding the drone program, he says, could have some blowback and play into al-Qaida's hands by providing more fodder for their recruitment efforts. ...

As Europe Ages, Its Economies Look Vulnerable | NPR

September 24, 2011

... "To make people have children they don't want to have, that's beyond the power of any despot," says Phillip Longman, a demographer at the New America Foundation. ...

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