Financial Times

“The whole terrain has changed for Obama,” said Steve Clemons, at the New America Foundation. “The president is now facing a world that is raising its price ...

... group has proposed real cuts to the defence budget rather than just rearranging the categories,” said Bill Hartung at the New America Foundation. ...

By Tim Wu Faced with the evidence presented here about the evolution of promising new communications and media networks over the past century, ...

“It is truly a remarkable plan,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “This plan does it all.”

... fiscal straitjacket that we could,” said Maya MacGuineas, a Peterson-Pew commissioner and president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

According to the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank, between 1109 and 1734 Pakistanis have been killed in drone strikes since they began in ...

Major losses for the Democrats in November’s mid-term elections are widely expected, with Republicans predicted to recapture at least the House of Representatives. No matter what the final tally is, instant analysis will proclaim that American politics has been transformed by the Tea Party movement. But the instant analysis will be wrong.

The Obama administration’s $60bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia is already being touted a domestic “jobs generator” for Americans. Instead, it should be seen as a strategically savvy deal – and one at the heart of a changed US strategy in the Middle East that seeks to confront Iran through proxies and allies.

“Nobody disputes their right to test the software – but testing without telling people puts their lives at risk,” said Evgeny Morozov, a blogger and ...

President Barack Obama has launched the US midterm campaign season with a series of major economic initiatives. They include plans to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure, to increase and make permanent research and development tax credits, to create new incentives for small business and to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class. Each idea has been met by a predictable chorus of predictions that they could not pass in the current US political climate. While the environment is indeed bleak, the economic situation confronting America warrants a different response.