The ousted staffer, Barry Lynn, was a critic of big tech companies and headed Open Markets, a New America program on corporate power and monopolies. Now she was back, about to confront her bewildered organization at an all-staff meeting and to try to do some damage control.
Slaughter, the president and CEO of New America, had been vacationing in Italy when the news broke.
It was late summer 2017, and for the past week her Washington think tank had been at the center of a national media scandal, beginning with an embarrassing New York Times story about her firing of a certain employee.
