Sundance: Expert Says Disney 'Escape' Case Would Be 'Pretty Weak' | Los...
January 23, 2013But one legal expert who's seen the film, titled "Escape From Tomorrow," says he believes the conglomerate doesn't have a very strong leg to stand on. "I think on both copyright and...
View ArticleRodriguez: Reform For People or For Politics?
February 18, 2013 The marches for immigration reform are gone. And so is the multiplicity of voices and faces. Gregory RodriguezFebruary 18, 2013In 2006, the last time Congress took a serious look at...
View ArticleBusiness Owners Emerge As Vocal Force In Pro-Immigration Debate | Los Angeles...
February 22, 2013"There's no question that businesses are going to be more out there — everyone from the big guys to the little guys," said Tamar Jacoby, president and chief executive of...
View ArticleWith Al Qaeda Shattered, U.S. Counter-Terrorism's Future Unclear | Los...
April 14, 2013"It's very hard to work this problem from a coldly analytic perspective because that's not how the people who pay our bills, Congress and the public, think about it," said Philip Mudd, a...
View ArticleBoston Bombings Shatter A National Sense Of Safety | Los Angeles Times
April 16, 2013"Those previous attempts on Times Square and the New York subway, had they succeeded, would have been substantially more lethal than this," said Philip Mudd, a former senior CIA and FBI...
View ArticleGunmen Overtake Town As Clashes Continue In Iraq | Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2013“It's disturbing,” said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a senior vice president at the international consulting firm Mantid International. “The...
View ArticleNSA Revelations Threaten Worldwide Trust in Facebook, Google | Los Angeles...
June 18, 2013Rebecca MacKinnon, senior research fellow with the New America Foundation, says there is a growing sense of outrage around the world. U.S. technology firms tied to the NSA surveillance...
View ArticleImmigration Reform: It's Alive!
July 18, 2013Tamar JacobyJuly 18, 2013URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-jacoby-immigration-house-20130718,0,1465953.story
View ArticleOn Immigration, Take a Cue from the Beach Boys | Los Angeles Times
July 18, 2013But in Thursday's Times, Tamar Jacoby argues that immigration reform isn't dead; far from it: Reports of the death of immigration reform are greatly exaggerated. The debate isn't over....
View ArticleEx-Fox News Executive Brian Lewis Dismisses Speculation on His Exit | Los...
August 21, 2013Among the rumors was that Lewis had been covertly assisting New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman on his much-anticipated book on Ailes and Fox News. Lewis would not address any of...
View ArticleFinal Nixon Tapes Show a Different Side of Former President | Los Angeles Times
August 21, 2013Timothy Naftali, former director of the Nixon Library now a fellow at the New America Foundation, a D.C. think tank, said the conversation with Brezhnev reflected “a friendly banality,...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Repeats As Top Public University in U.S. News Rankings | Los...
September 10, 2013U.S. News' move is “a small step in the right direction but not nearly enough,” said Clare McCann, an education analyst for the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C. think tank....
View ArticleNet Neutrality Is Dead. Bow To Comcast And Verizon, Your Overlords | Los...
January 14, 2014"AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast will be able to deliver some sites and services more quickly and reliably than others for any reason," telecommunications lawyer Marvin Ammori (he's the...
View ArticleState Of The Union Goals Often Fall Short | Los Angeles Times
January 26, 2014"I was happy to see they at least had some sort of plan for paying for this. It was in itself a bold statement," said Lisa Guernsey, director of the early education initiative at the...
View ArticleNetflix To Pay Comcast For Smoother Online Video Streaming | Los Angeles Times
February 24, 2014"Netflix didn't have any options," said Marvin Ammori, an Internet policy expert at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society. "And Netflix cried, 'uncle.'" But by...
View ArticleLinkedin Makes Major Play For China | Los Angeles Times
February 24, 2014As a professional networking service, not a more general service such as Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn may have a shot at operating in China, said Rebecca MacKinnon, China expert and...
View ArticleNetflix-Comcast Deal Ends Internet Consumption Dispute
February 25, 2014"It's actually a fairly major moment for the Internet, for Netflix to give up and start paying," said Marvin Ammori, an Internet policy expert. "Netflix was a major holdout." FACES TO...
View ArticleEverything You Thought You Knew About Economic Statistics Is Wrong
February 25, 2014"There's this belief that we have enough credible long-term data to come to absolute conclusions that we know what's going to happen with stimulus spending or too much debt," said...
View ArticleThe War Correspondents' View From Afghanistan
May 1, 2014A pair of new books on the war in Afghanistan — "The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan 2001-2014" by Carlotta Gall and "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War...
View ArticleReview The War Correspondents' View From Afghanistan | Los Angeles Times
May 6, 2014A pair of new books on the war in Afghanistan — "The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan 2001-2014" by Carlotta Gall and "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War...
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