A new survey of college admissions counselors released by Inside Higher Ed confirms many seek out students of means who do not require financial aid assistance.
After cutting roughly $900 million in direct funding to K-12 education several weeks ago, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania told reporters Tuesday school districts have themselves to blame. But an education professor from the University of Rutgers begs to differ, mining past the policy minutiae to arrive with hard More…
It’s the most controversial counterterrorism program there is. The CIA’s remotely piloted aircraft, operating with the tacit consent of the Pakistani government, fire missiles at suspected militants in the Pakistani tribal areas where U.S. ground troops are prohibited from operating and where the Pakistani military is often hesitant to tread. More…
Yesterday we broke the story of how Philip Mudd, the well-respected FBI/CIA al-Qaeda and terrorism analyst, quietly retired from government service. Today the New America Foundation, a D.C. think-tank, announces that Mudd will be joining its team as “a senior research fellow specializing in the Middle East and counterterrorism.”
You thought Phil Mudd was done? Months ago, Mudd, the chief of the FBI’s national security branch and a respected longtime CIA official, was forced to withdraw his name as Janet Napolitano’s nominee for intelligence chief of the Department of Homeland Security. Mudd bowed out in June after some More…
The New America Foundation’s Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann have a new report out tallying how many civilians have died in the Pakistani tribal areas thanks to the CIA’s drone strikes. Their conclusion: the strikes have killed, since 2006, between 750 and 1000 people; 20 of them have been More…
Via Adam Serwer at Tapped, the New America Foundation has a new report out addressing that slippery, demagoguery-filled claim about Guantanamo detainees “returning” to the battlefield after the Bush administration released them.
Contrary to recent assertions that one in seven, or 14 percent, of the former prisoners had
Strategically positioned by the coffee, yet astrategically positioned near the recycling bin, my perch here in room 325 of the Russell Senate Office Building captures the crossroads that America faces in the war on terrorism.
Luckily, the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, has an all-day program set More…
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