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“The president is obviously close to unions on this issue. The constituencies they’re trying to keep happy with immigration reform do not care about this piece of it,” said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a federation of small-business owners that supports immigration reform. “They want to keep Latino voters happy, keep unions happy — and, dare say it, who cares about the economy?”

Coll, who will replace Nicholas Lemann as dean starting July 1, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who served as Post managing editor from 1998 through 2004 and is currently president of The New America Foundation in Washington. More news about ...

“If done right and responsibly, homeownership is a very important piece of the wealth puzzle for the long term,” said Reid Cramer, director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation.

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The New York Times has reported that the Obama administration counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants — an approach that would underreport civilian casualties. But the New America Foundation's Peter Bergen argues that, since 2008, ...

The third paper is “Congress’ Wicked Problem: Seeking Knowledge Inside the Information Tsunami.” Author Lorelei Kelly argues that “Congress is not so much venal and corrupt as it is incapacitated and obsolete.” Kelly’s argument — that Congress simply lacks the informational and staff resources to make wise judgments on a vast range of issues — is convincing. In the absence of staff members to whom members of Congress can confidently turn for expert advice, they end up seeking, and following, the advice of party organizations, lobbyists and other special interests.

... an existential threat — Russia, China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Belarus and Cuba,” said Andrew McLauglin, Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and a former Google official, in a speech to the New America Foundation last ...

“The interesting question is, how good is the thing that’s free?” said Kevin Carey, an education analyst at the New America Foundation. “It doesn’t surprise me that they’re being deliberate about it. If they’re putting their brand names behind this effort in a very public way, you absolutely want to mitigate against the risk of people saying, ‘This is no good.’”

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“When we wake up Wednesday morning, the fiscal-cliff clocks will start,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “Hopefully, the fiscal cliff will be the excuse for the parties to start working ...

Under President Obama, the attacks have continued in Somalia and expanded in Yemen. Sources: New America Foundation; Longwarjournal.org; staff reports. Julie Tate and Bill Webster/The Washington Post.