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Shannon Brownlee, director of the New America Health Policy Program, believes all doctors should be salaried and that the Veterans Health Administration offers a promising model for the nation. Likewise, Dr. Steven Nissen has a great antipathy towards ...

(By semi-authorized, I mean that the Fox News chairman granted Chafets extensive access, a courtesy he did not extend to competing biographer Gabriel Sherman, whose “The Loudest Voice in the Room” will appear later this year.) Here are a few details ...

Swartz was a “deviant genius” who was misunderstood, Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School and author of a recent New Yorker story about Swartz. ”I feel we can judge a society by how it treats people who are different, eccentric and deviant geniuses ...

Or as Charles Kenny, a Fellow at the New America Foundation itself, writes in his study, Superfast: Is It Really Worth a Subsidy?, “[t]his paper suggests fiber to the home may be no more worthy of subsidy than Concorde.” And how much easier would ...

In her recent article Men And Women On Risk And Failure, Annie Murphy Paul reports on the result of a new study from Barclays Wealth & Investment Management in the UK that shows the gender gap “is not just diminished but reversed altogether” for women ...

Google and Microsoft are both part of the Wireless Innovation Alliance, a support group for the FCC's initiative which also includes Dell and the New America Foundation. Google stands to benefit significantly if more people start using its services to ...

Jason DeParle of the New York Times recently took a long look at what happens to low-income students who defy some of the cards stacked against them and go to college. The story is incredibly disheartening: only one of the three young women he follows ...

In fact, as author Liza Mundy writes in her book, The Richer Sex, Millennial women are increasingly finding two options when it comes to romance: marry down or don't marry. “There needs to be a cognitive behavior change in what are [considered ...

The Red Hook Initiative has been working on such a project with the New America Foundation (NAF)’s Open Technology Institue, and it managed to survive the hurricane itself. Josh Breitbart, the director of field operations for NAF, mentioned that because the network was built on an open platform, they were quickly able to adapt it to storm-related needs–i.e., adding an SMS reporting service.

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... $4-5 trillion in the federal budget from a combination of spending cuts with revenue-raising,” Maya Maguineas, director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, told me in a telephone interview. “ This would be a bridge to a bigger deal ...