I can’t help it. I’ve always been partial to Bill Burton who I think did and continues to do an outstanding job in the communications operation of the Obama political franchise.
Patrick Doherty is deputy director of the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. For a moment last night, watching President Barack Obama’s first state of the Union address, I got excited.
World War II. Beaches, Troops. Challenges. Feel sorry for me — crappy circumstances. Tough economy. Tough national security position. FEEL FOR ME. For troubled Americans — with children — Some are frustrated, some are angry. People are tired of partisanship.
This is a guest note by Leo Hindery. Hindery’s take first appeared at The Huffington Post, above the fold, top of the column Leo Hindery, Jr. chairs the US Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation. He is the former chief executive of AT&T Broadband and other major media and telecom companies.
Video streaming by Ustream The New America Foundation is hosting a cocktail reception this evening featuring New America Foundation/Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative Director Barry Lynn, who will discuss his new book, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and The Economics of Destruction.
Barack Obama’s plan to unveil tonight a non-defense discretionary spending freeze for the next three years will essentially forfeit America’s growth future to China. China has been massively investing in its high speed rail, its science labs, its educational system, its roads, its energy grid an its information super-duper highway.
One of the reasons that the New America Foundation and I worked to get America and the World: Conversations on the Future of U.S.
This is a guest note by Josh Meah, an intern alum with the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program. He blogs occasionally at The Washington Note.
It’s too bad we won’t see that race in Delaware. I have great respect for Beau Biden, the incumbent Attorney General of Delaware who is politically savvy and policy smart, but he has decided not to run for his father’s former US Senate seat.
I am often asked by readers where they might direct support if they want to help the forces working towards a two state solution in the Israel/Palestine standoff. One option is a new political action committee called “A New Policy PAC“.
