Table of Contents
- Fueling the Fight for Net Neutrality
- Embracing Ranked-Choice Voting as a Pathway to Pluralism
- Measuring U.S. Drone Use and Misuse
- Fulfilling the Promise of Child Savings Accounts
- Linking the Individual Mandate and Social Responsibility
- Tracking Terrorism in the United States
- Early Education Doesn't End at Pre-K
- Making Higher Education Outcomes Transparent
- Redefining Care Policy
- Using TV "White Spaces" to Create Equitable Internet Access
- Investing in America's Future Thinkers
- Proposing the Public Option
- Creating a Public Interest Technology Sector
- Building a New Practice of Public Problem-Solving
- Expanding Access to High School-Age Youth for High-Quality Apprenticeship Opportunities
- Engaging North Korea
- A Universal 401(k) Plan
- Measuring the Internet for Everyone
- Rethinking Economic Policy
- Documenting the Long Wars
- Ranking Digital Rights
- Future Tense
- Using Fiction to Make Policy More…Realistic
- Pop-Up Magazine
- Developing an MA in Global Security
- Helping Communities Deploy Mesh Networks
- Partnering with Universities
Documenting the Long Wars
Idea
The United States’ post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries against groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS are America’s longest wars. Why have these wars proven so protracted?
Incubation
After 9/11, New America published twenty books by authors Peter Bergen, Rosa Brooks, Steve Coll, Anand Gopal, Souad Mekhennet, Fred Kaplan, David Kilcullen, Daniel Rothenberg, Peter W. Singer, Brian Fishman, Nick Schmidle, Nir Rosen, and David Wood that addressed multiple aspects of these long wars.
Impact
Three of the books were Pulitzer Prize finalists; five were New York Times best-sellers; and four were turned into documentaries for CNN, HBO, and National Geographic—two of which were nominated for Emmys and one of which won the Emmy for best documentary. Taken together, these books (which have been translated into more than 20 languages) have helped to shape the public’s understanding of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban, as well as the actions that the U.S. government and military have taken against these groups.