Caroline Esser is a research intern at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. In Tuesday’s Washington Post, Joshua Partlow and Haq Nawaz Khan highlight the numerous flaws in House bill S.496: Afghanistan and Pakistan Reconstruction Opportunity Zones Act of 2009, which has passed the House and is being reviewed by the Senate.
I have a piece up this morning on World Politics Review that advises both Europe and Turkey to exercise patience in their accession negotiations. From the article: Ankara is currently enjoying a moment of self-satisfaction. Its economy has fared well in recent years, and it maintains friendly relations with nearly all of its feuding neighbors….
Jon Weinberg is a research intern at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force.
The monthly food ration for a Cuban adult. Photo credit Javier Galeano/AP. Patrick Doherty directs the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. One of the most hopeful signs that both the U.S.
To discuss the importance of making manufacturing a part of the Obama team’s “New Economic Foundation,” the New America Foundation/Smart Globalization Initiative is hosting a public forum today.
Rory Stewart, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard and author of The Places in Between, makes the case against escalating the war in Afghanistan in the pages of the London Review of Books.
After Al Jazeera’s Baghdad headquarters was bombed in April 2003, reports surfaced that George W. Bush had joked about making Al Jazeera a deliberate target of U.S. attacks. Wadah Khanfar was the bureau chief of Al Jazeera’s operations in Baghdad at that time.
Jon Weinberg is an intern at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. At first glance, Iran’s new internet law – which stipulates that Iranian internet service providers (ISPs) are required to retain the entirety of their clients’ data for at least three months – appears exceedingly intimidating.
Check out this debate over at The Economist between Daniel Levy and David Frum on whether “Barack Obama’s America is now an honest broker between Israel and the Arabs.” Given the United States’ long-time alliance with Israel it is a bit ironic that this debate pits Levy on one side suggesting that the U.S.
Tom Kutsch is a research associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force.
