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America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Aaron David Miller, author of The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace and former State Department official serving six secretaries of state on Middle East issues and the Arab-Israeli peace process, led a discussion on that seemingly quixotic quest for the Prospects for Peace Initiative. Miller offered answers to participants’ questions about the peace process, drawing on personal experiences to render vividly, and critique honestly, important moments in Arab-Israeli negotiations over the past few decades. View video of the event here.

State Secrets:
TCF Fellow Published in the New Yorker

The Century Foundation Fellow, Patrick Radden Keefe was published in a recent issue of the New Yorker. His article focuses on the government's misstep in a wiretapping case. Was a classified document proof of warrantless surveillance? View the article here.
New Group Blog from The Century Foundation

The Century Foundation introduces our new 'Taking Note' group blog, a venue for topical opinions and analysis by Century Foundation fellows and staff. Click here and bookmark to join us.

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Counting West Bank Checkpoints
by: Daniel Levy
5/9/2008
I have written before about the seemingly unstoppable proliferation of checkpoints and obstacles to movement in the West Bank, but I thought an update was in order. After all, Secretary Rice has just devoted another round of relatively fruitless Mid-East shuttling on primarily this issue.  More...
Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools
One important aim of social science research is to provide unbiased information that can help guide public policies. However, social science is often construed as politics by other means. Nowhere is the polarized nature of social science research more visible than in the heated debate over charter schools. In Spin Cycle, noted political scientist and education expert Jeffrey Henig explores how controversies over the charter school movement illustrate the use and misuse of research in policy debates.  More...
The Basics: National Health Insurance: Lessons from Abroad
This pamphlet, the eleventh in our series The Basics, seeks to clarify the health care debate by illustrating the different ways that Canada, Germany, France, The United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia have structured their health care plans. National Health Insurance: Lessons from Abroad demonstrates the wide variety of options available to America for creating a dynamic and flexible national health care system. More...
Absolute Power
In Absolute Power, John P. MacKenzie looks at the origins and history of the unitary executive theory, examining its broad claims of presidential power in the light of the founders’ original writings as well as the actions of Presidents Jackson, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Truman, all of whom tested the power of their office against that of Congress and the Supreme Court. More...
A Second Opinion
Rescuing America's Health Care

A world-renowned physician traces the rise of the medical-industrial complex that has made a disaster of our healthcare system—and tells us incisively what we need to do to change it. More...
The Basics: The Middle Class at Risk
This pamphlet, the tenth in our series The Basics, lays out straightforward facts and data that are useful to anyone attempting to understand the makeup of the American middle class, how their circumstances have changed over time, and the economic conditions and problems they confront.  More...
Breaking the Nuclear Impasse: New Prospects for Security against Weapons Threats
Curbing nuclear weapons has never been a more urgent priority for nations both great and small, but the global system of nuclear controls seems paralyzed. Have the instruments that once worked so well lost their efficacy? What can be done to clear the obstructions and break this impasse? More...
Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century
In Power and Superpower, some of the United States’ most distinguished policy practitioners and experts identify pressing foreign policy issues facing the United States, and outline alternatives for successful foreign policy that harnesses power in support of a peaceful and prosperous world. More...
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions arise about its motivations. What are the driving forces that influence how Japan will act in the international system? Are there recurrent patterns that will help explain how Japan will respond to the emerging environment of world politics? More...
Liberty Under Attack
In Liberty Under Attack, a Century Foundation book, experts and activists including Gary Hart, John Podesta, David Cole and Ann Beeson report on the diverse actions, taken in the name of security, that undermine American liberties. These essays show the price the country has paid for failing to discuss incursion on freedoms adequately and openly, and they explain the consequences of these actions. Liberty Under Attack is edited by Richard C. Leone, president of The Century Foundation, and Greg Anrig, Jr., vice-president of programs. More...
New From TCF
The Snapshot: New Highs for Economic Worries
By Ruy Teixeira.
The Myth of Free News
The Platform. By Peter Osnos.
Abandoning Burma
Morton Abramowitz and Jonathan Kolieb, published in The National Interest.
Reaching Out To Pyongyang
Morton Abramowitz and Stephen Bosworth published in Newsweek International.
Inequality and Solidarity
Richard D. Kahlenberg reviews two books on the labor movement in Washington Monthly.
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
TCF Board of Trustees member, Ted Sorensen's memoir, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History will be published on May 6. View his Q&As in the New York Times and Library Journal.
An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
TCF's Greg Anrig, discusses school vouchers in Washington Monthly
Obama Praises the Wrong Conservatives
Greg Anrig published in American Prospect.
Bilal Hussein and the Looming Battle Over Iraqi Sovereignty
Michael Hanna published in the World Politics Review.
Ascendant Asia and the Global Agenda
View the highlights video from this event.
The Decline of the White Working Class and the Rise of a Mass Upper Middle Class
Ruy Teixeira's study of shifts in American class structure since the World War II era.
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East
View video from this event.
New Strategies For Latino Voter Mobilization: The Nevada Democratic Caucus As A Case Study
Tova Andrea Wang describes the unique nature of the 2008 Nevada caucus
IRC Commission on Iraqi Refugees: Statement of the Commissioners
View the summary statement from the International Rescue Committee Commissioners' report about Iraqi Refugees. TCF senior fellow, Morton Abramowitz is a commissioner.
The Next President and the Middle East
Daniel Levy published in the American Prospect.
Issues in Depth
New Media, New Voters
The candidates for the 2008 election and their supporting organizations are taking advantage of a new tool: the Internet.
Project on Democracy and U.S. Foreign Policy
Should the U.S. continue to support individuals and groups working to establish democracy in non-democratic countries?
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Media Hits
Ruy Teixeira mentioned in a Washington Post column.
Greg Anrig's article discussed on CBSNews.com.
Richard D. Kahlenberg quoted in the USA Today.
Ruy Teixeira's data cited in the Wall Street Journal.
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