New America Foundation
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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-elect of the foundation.[1].
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Controversy
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 claimed that the Iranian presidential election, 2009 was not fraudulent, based on a poll sponsored by the Foundation.[2]The conclusions drawn from the poll were attacked as questionable, given the low response rate and the long time lag between the poll and the election.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Google's White-Space Fixation
- ^ 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 on 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 on 2009-06-21.
