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Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow Anand Gopal’s No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, was announced as a shortlist nominee for the National Book Award in nonfiction. Raves the New York Times: "Gopal's book is essential reading for anyone concerned about how America got Afghanistan so wrong." New America congratulates Anand on this exciting and well-deserved honor.
Monday October 27, 2014
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, by Dr. John Nagl, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army and a former president of the Center for a New American Security, is a profound education in 21st Century warfare – its theory, its practice, and the often-tortured relationship between the two.
More about the eventTuesday October 28, 2014
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
In The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror, Arun Kundnani notes that the new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures in the United States and across Europe.
More about the eventWednesday October 29, 2014
6:30 pm – 8:15 pm
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Join New America NYC and a panel of diverse stakeholders -- an author, publisher, bookstore owner, and digital journalism expert -- for a conversation on the impact of technology in the buying, selling, and reading of the books of the future.
More about the eventThursday October 30, 2014
6:30 pm – 8:15 pm
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In what the UN calls the most dangerous country to be a woman, the battle of nature versus nurture still lingers, and some bacha posh refuse to rescind their male prerogatives.
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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
Police violence against people of color doesn't ever seem to be part of the past.
The death of famed Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee on Tuesday marks the symbolic end of an important era in American journalism, one that, unfortunately, was very different than our own.
New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) announced today that it has publicly released the latest version of its groundbreaking community networking and infrastructure toolkit, Commotion.
As the 2014 International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference begins today in Busan, South Korea, New America’s Open Technology Institute is pleased to release a new interactive map to help visualize the role of swing states in the global Internet governance debate.
In preparation for our event on how America’s meat industry is returning to the Jungle on Monday, October 20th, here are 6 articles you need to read.
The article is important. Krugman rightfully directs our attention away from approval ratings and popularity -- measures that don't tell us much about the place of our leaders in American history -- insisting instead that we should be focused on things that a president actually does.
“It’s not clear he’s been a player on that much in terms of legislating, especially since Congress isn’t doing that much,” said Julian E. Zelizer, a congressional historian at Princeton University.
This week's topics include retirement, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.
A key aspect of the global Internet governance debate in the past two years has focused on the role of "swing states." In these interactive maps, we visualize the results of a recent study for the Centre of International Governance Innovation which identifies 30 key states based on a number of indicators, and explain how this relates to the ITU's 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference.
“With Democrats still bullish about the gubernatorial races it seems they are redirecting his limited time away from Capitol Hill and toward the races for the state house around the nation,” said Princeton political historian Julian Zelizer.
Some of the tech industry’s key legislative priorities, though, aren’t so widely popular, or even well-known to the general public. Those issues include raising the number of visas available for skilled foreign technology workers, said Princeton political historian Julian Zelizer.
"Other midterms have taken place in chaotic times," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history at Princeton University. "Right now this is a pretty bad one. There are, rationally, a lot of problems that the president and the country are confronting."
While surveillance reform efforts in Congress are on pause until lawmakers return from the campaign trail in November, the costs of the NSA’s bulk collection and monitoring programs continue to pile up. And now companies are responding by competing over security improvements to their products.