Last week Hamas militants arrested two members of the hard-line Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group while the men were in the act of setting up mortars to fire into southern Israel. This may not seem like big news, but it comes amid various developments in the interminable slog known that is the “peace process.
This is the second installment in James P. Pinkerton‘s provocative health care policy series for The Washington Note. Pinkerton is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a policy blogger. Pinkerton is also fellow at the New America Foundation, and contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine. “Playing God.
This is a guest post by a colleague and TWN regular Richard Vague Handling the Economic Crisis – A Report Card If we really want to have enduring, muscular economic growth, then where’s the enhanced support for the truly cutting edge things that will make that happen? Repatriating telemarketing jobs from the Philippines and textile…
Caroline Esser is a research intern at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. Although the G8 summit in Italy resulted in little progress toward establishing greenhouse gas emissions targets, the leaders of the G-8 countries are claiming a small success in the realm of food security.
Jonathan Wallace is Assistant to the President at the New America Foundation. Marc Lynch has a much discussed post over at Foreign Policy that refracts the beef between hip-hop legend Jay-Z and hip-hop artist The Game through the lens of international relations theory.
Katherine Tiedemann is a policy analyst at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. The everyday lives of Afghanistan’s some 16 million women are often forgotten or overlooked in the morass that is US involvement in Afghanistan.
In the aftermath of last week’s G-8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, there is a debate emerging over whether to expand the group. The most popular proposal would include Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico and South Africa in a G-14.
Caroline Esser is a research intern at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. After reading this Council on Foreign Relations interview with Bernard Gwertzman, it struck me how strange and remarkable Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s simultaneous relationships with both the United States and Venezuela truly were.
Jon Weinberg is a research intern with the New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force. Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of the 1999 student protests in Iran.
Monica Baer is a research intern with the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program. President Obama is one small step closer to his vision of a nuclear-free world. On July 6, he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Joint Understanding for the START Follow-on Treaty in Moscow.
