Event Archives: 2010

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Cleaning Up The Mortgage Mess

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 12:15pm

Landmark depositions earlier this year revealed that banks had foreclosed on thousands -- perhaps hundreds of thousands -- of homeowners without clear legal standing to do so. Investigations by the federal government, all fifty state Attorneys General and the private sector are revealing widespread problems with the way mortgage loans were bought, sold and combined into complex financial instruments during the housing bubble's expansion.

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Self-Inflicted Wounds

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:30am

Please join the New America Foundation National Security Studies Program for the release and discussion of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point’s new report, Self-Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qa’ida and its Periphery, which explores the disagreements and internal tensions that weaken the al-Qa’ida movement independently from state-led counterterrorism policies.

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Standing on Shaky Ground

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 2:45pm

The Rockefeller Foundation, the New America Foundation, and Yale University economic security expert Jacob Hacker gathered to discuss the issue of economic risk and the release of a report that analyzes how this risk affects Americans entitled Standing on Shaky Ground: Americans’ Experiences with Economic Insecurity. The report is based on a new two-wave survey of Americans that examines their experiences and perceptions between March 2008 and September 2009.

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The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 12:15pm

On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, author and academic Nelly Lahoud spoke at the New America Foundation about her newest book, The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction. Her comments focused on modern jihadi discourse as well as historical trends of Islamic dissent. Much of her lecture explored comparisons made between modern jihadis and early Kharijism (a seventh century splinter movement). According to Ms. Lahoud, the two groups are not perfectly analogous, but they do suffer from the same shortcomings. In the case of the Kharijites, this matters little since the group no longer exists.

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Meeting the Needs of Older Underbanked Consumers

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 8:30am

In the midst of one of the country's most pressing economic times, companies, foundations, and community leaders are shifting their focus to how they can help the growing number of vulnerable people build assets. Many experts believe that safe, affordable, and transparent financial services can play an important role in economic security, and in response, the financial services industry is looking towards innovation to increase the supply of products and services designed to promote asset-building.

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Moving Beyond Death Panels

Friday, December 10, 2010 - 12:00pm

How patients are treated and cared for in their last few months of life has important implications for both health care spending and the quality of patients' lives -- and deaths. The highly politicized debate over end-of-life care leading up to passage of the Affordable Care Act framed the issue in black-and-white terms, as a choice between cure versus care, hospital versus hospice.

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Network Nation

Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 3:00pm

Richard R. John takes the stage to discuss his book, “Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications”, emphasizing the importance of policy intervention to protect citizens’ access to national resources which suffers at the sole watch of industry forces, as the past and present show.

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International Broadcasting, Public Media, and the News Deficit

Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 1:00pm

In an increasingly digital media landscape, people across the globe are relating to their news outlets in new ways. The missions of media producers are changing, as technological innovations reshape news networks into communities.

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A Rope and a Prayer

Friday, December 3, 2010 - 3:00pm

At this Dec. 3, 2010, event, New America Foundation President Steve Coll hosted a discussion with David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill to discuss Rohde’s captivity in Pakistan's tribal areas and Mulvihill’s interactions with U.S. and Pakistani officials as she tried to win his release. The discussion touched on a variety of policy issues, including: Is the Pakistani army simply unable to deliver on promises to rein in militants operating in the tribal areas? Or is it intentionally undermining the Obama administration's strategy in the region?

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Getting Media Right: A Call to Action

Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 6:00pm

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