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“It is a new thing, a big social experiment that we've accidentally decided to engage in,” said Kevin Carey, the director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a research group based in Washington. “Let's send a whole class of ...

“We have to change the calculation of the people around Assad, to have them figure out a deal is better than going down to the end,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Princeton professor and former director of policy planning for Hillary Clinton's State ...

... body of work about Mr. Ailes. A friendly biography by Zev Chafets was published in March, getting ahead of another book about Mr. Ailes and Fox that had been set for publication this month. That one, by Gabriel Sherman, is now scheduled for next ...

“The heart of immigration reform is fixing the legal immigration system so it works for America,” said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a group representing small businesses. “The first draft doesn't get the future exactly right, but it ...

“The bundle is the Gibraltar of the media business,” said Tim Wu, the author of “The Master Switch,” a history of media revolutions. “It keeps the entire ecosystem alive, which is why it is so heavily and successfully defended. But there are hairline ...

By the count of the New America Foundation, a research group that tries to track targeted killing, the United States has carried out 422 strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, 373 of them since Mr. Obama took office in 2009, in addition to a handful in Somalia.

“There is a formula that will allow it to grow and shrink according to economic needs,” said Tamar Jacoby, the president of ImmigrationWorks, a group that represents small businesses on immigration matters. She said the formula agreed to was not ...

Tamar Jacoby, the president of ImmigrationWorks, a group that represents small businesses on immigrations matters, said business and labor had reached agreement on the highly contentious issue of how many guest workers would be admitted each year.

By 2008, said Philip Mudd, then a top F.B.I. counterterrorism official, Mr. Awlaki “was cropping up as a radicalizer — not in just a few investigations, but in what seemed to be every investigation.” In November 2009, when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an ...

Michael Lind's review of Charles R. Morris's “Dawn of Innovation” (Feb. 3) shares Morris's blindness to slavery as an engine of American economic development. Yes, Americans were, in Lind's words, “largely born free.” But that freedom included the ...