Here we go again. Another year, another inconclusive climate change summit. The grim reality haunting the talks that recently wrapped up in Lima is...

Should we re-draw our borders? This question keeps coming up whenever societies or groups of people face existential national threats or serious ch...

I am an arms dealer in Libya, but my weapons reduce violence and last longer than a bullet. As the founder of the Voice of Libyan Women (VLW), a wo...

Washington, DC — New America announced that Dr. Tomicah Tillemann joined the organization as a Senior Fellow with the Profits and Purpose Program a...

Just how _do _we proceed? Wedel suggested that the only way to truly restore public trust is to bring more “outsiders” back into the political proc...

Achieving communities that support aging in place will require working together across the public and private sectors, and engaging experts in urba...

National Public Radio host Michelle Norris has run The Race Card Project for the past four years. Participants are asked to distill their “experien...

Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist, saw her first rocket launch at age 4. Her father worked at NASA as an engineer, and the thrill of space explo...

There’s a World Turtle Day. A Bubble Bath Day. And even a Talk Like Shakespeare Day. So about a year ago, Wendy Diamond found herself wondering: Wh...

Revolutions are messy, confusing, and brutal. Only afterwards are they recast into neat – and often flawed– narratives. Revolutions are less a test...

“How does revolution happen?” asked Janine Wedel. “Maybe it doesn’t,” mused Lawrence Lessig, evincing a mild case of political resignation that the...

The post-Snowden world is a little like a new parent suddenly worrying about the security of its baby…data. Governments, companies, and citizens al...

Too often, I find myself looking at this or that new map on the happiest places to live in the United States, the states with the most craft beer, ...

We all know that increasingly, Hispanic Americans are at the forefront of national conversations about politics, and not just in the context of the...

“Okay, Rebecca, it’s your turn to find the bomb.” That’s what Tech Sergeant Edward Canell at Buckley Air Force Base said to Rebecca Frankel, a jour...

‘If you want to keep all those people productive and in the workforce, you have to make it possible. So the way to think about it is not ‘Can we af...

What can the history of investigative journalism – or global muckraking, as Columbia professor Anya Schiffrin calls it – teach us about the future ...

While they seem to come from different centuries, the makeshift IED of an insurgent and the cutting-edge aerial assets of the world’s largest milit...

Nemati worked on a script for a public service announcement called “The Internet Never Forgets.” Its storyline demonstrates how students’ online be...

Last week, OTI announced its participation in LinkNYC, a plan to replace aging payphones in New York City with wi-fi hubs or “Links.” The implement...

If the idea of Black Friday crowds makes you want to stay home and curl up with a good book instead, New America’s got you covered with a cornucopi...