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Can military strategy and the race for energy innovation have priorities in common? New America Senior Adviser Sharon Burke and Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Fellow Sharon Squassoni offer answers in the Weekly Wonk.
Wednesday January 07, 2015
9:00 am – 10:30 am
[u'New America', u'1899 L Street NW Suite 400', u'Washington, DC 20036']
New America is pleased to welcome Dr. Speckhard and Mr. Shaikh for a discussion about what it was like going undercover in a terrorist cell, growing up Muslim in an age where militant jihad is glorified, being caught between two identities, and finally emerging victorious.
More about the eventThursday January 08, 2015
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
[u'New America', u'1899 L Street NW Suite 400', u'Washington, DC 20036']
In the era of No Child Left Behind and the Common Core Standards, many teachers, parents, and policymakers have accused America’s schools of sacrificing substantial learning and taxpayer dollars in favor of teaching to high-stakes, high-stress standardized tests. And, detractors say, as the stand-alone measure of performance for students, teachers, schools, and districts, they’re ultimately cutting into the competitiveness of our next generation.
More about the eventThursday January 08, 2015
6:30 pm – 8:15 pm
[u'New America NYC', u'199 Lafayette Street Suite 3B', u'New York, NY 10012']
As wealth inequality in America reaches new heights and wage growth for the middle and lower classes remains stagnant, more and more Americans are being forced to work late-night and early-morning shifts in order to support their families. But who's looking after their kids?
More about the eventFriday January 09, 2015
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
[u'New America', u'1899 L Street NW Suite 400', u'Washington, DC 20036']
New America is pleased to welcome Hannah Armstrong, a writer and New America International Security Program fellow who is based in Algeria and who has seven years of experience researching North African and Sahel political and security dynamics, for a discussion of Algeria’s muscular foreign policy in the region and why we should not expect an Algerian Arab Spring anytime soon.
More about the event
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Voices from the Internet Underground
The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
And How They Got That Way
Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
America After Meritocracy
ExxonMobil and American Power
An Economic History of the United States
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
A History of American Hubris
How a Networked Progressive media Can Reshape American Politics
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity
Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
An Arabian Family In the American Century
Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours
Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
A Vision for America’s Role in the World
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This week's topics include wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap, retirement security, prize-linked savings, and individuals with disabilities.
Institute for College Access and Success published its ninth annual report on the cumulative student loan debt of recent graduates from four-year colleges.
As wealth inequality in America reaches new heights and wage growth for the middle and lower classes remains stagnant, more and more Americans are being forced to work late-night and early-morning shifts in order to support their families. But who's looking after their kids?
A surprising lesson from a Pakistani teacher in how to encourage enrollment among her female students.
Could a new program in Illinois help solve our national retirement savings crisis?
In the wake of racial violence in America, how can we find a way to come together? New America Fellow Ari Ratner reflects on the larger implications of a moment of brotherhood in the latest Weekly Wonk.
Gary Barker and Mary Robbins argue that paternity leave is the key to changing gender expectations and securing full equality for women.
Can military strategy and the race for energy innovation have priorities in common? New America Senior Adviser Sharon Burke and Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Fellow Sharon Squassoni offer answers in the Weekly Wonk.
Instead of re-drawing borders in response to crises, Maano Ramutsindela says we should use a regional approach to imagine new ways for borders to operate.
Fighting violence, poverty, fear and corruption without weapons in Libya.
Washington, DC — New America announced that Dr. Tomicah Tillemann joined the organization as a Senior Fellow with the Profits and Purpose Program and as Director of the Bretton Woods II initiative. The initiative will bring together large, long-term investors including pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds with the goal ...
"The ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-greatly defended computer network is not the same as being able to carry out physical 9/11-style attacks at 18,000 theaters simultaneously," Singer says. "The point here is that by caving in, we've set an absolutely horrible precedent—a precedent that makes these kinds of threats far more likely for the rest of us."
The film’s cancellation “changes this from a joke, to them incentivizing attacks on other people,” said Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who has written extensively on cybersecurity.
The banks made it easy for Congress, and then made a convincing case for it - over, and over, and over again. And the other side just didn't have the resources or the manpower to refute it enough.