The New America Foundation is a non-profit public policy institute and think tank located in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1998 by Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, Michael Lind and Walter Russell Mead.
In 2007 Steve Coll, a former managing editor of The Washington Post, succeeded Ted Halstead as President of the New America Foundation. Well-known board members include political commentator Fareed Zakaria, Christine Todd Whitman, international relations theorist Francis Fukuyama, Atlantic Monthly correspondent James Fallows, former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson, and economist Laura D'Andrea Tyson. Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, is chairman of the foundation's board of directors.[1]
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Published articles
Articles by numerous New America Foundation members have appeared in leading publications. The Atlantic Monthly has had extensive coverage in several issues from New America Foundation writers, expounding on their analyses and proposing solutions to persistent US problems. Board members and fellows have written cover stories for a large number of periodicals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wilson Quarterly, Wired, The New Republic, The New York Times, The National Interest, The American Conservative, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, and Mother Jones.
2009 Iranian election commentary
In June of 2009, Patrick Doherty, the deputy director of the Foundation's American Strategy Program, co-wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post where he argued that the result of the 2009 Iranian presidential election may not have been fraudulent, based on a poll sponsored by Terror Free Tomorrow and the New America Foundation.[2] Jon Cohen, of the Washington Post's polling department, argued for wariness "of a poll taken so far before such a heated contest, particularly one where more than half of voters did not express an opinion."[3]
References
- ^ About the Board of Directors, New America Foundation website, accessed November 2009
- ^ Ballen, Ken; Patrick Doherty (2009-06-15). "The Iranian People Speak". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061401757.html. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
- ^ "About those Iran Polls". Behind the Numbers (Washington Post). 2009-06-15. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2009/06/about_those_iran_polls.html. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
External links
- New America Foundation webpage
- New America Foundation at SourceWatch
- VIDEO - See Elizabeth Carpenter speak at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health - Health Care Reform: A Nonpartisan Look at the Issue Under Debate
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