Work-life balance is having a moment, but for the wrong reasons. Although scholars have been researching work-life-fit for over 50 years, the 2008 ...

“The poor” aren’t other people – they’re us. According to recent scholarship, by the time we’re 75 years old, 59 percent of us will fall below the ...

Washington, DC — New America announced that Michael M. Crow, Arizona State University President, and Mohamed A. El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor at...

For a big part of my life, I assumed that the scarce resource—the thing that was preventing me from getting to Mars, or having my own personal jetp...

Norway is world famous for its fjords and its Viking history, but it’s also well-known as a global beacon for gender equality. On September 24 at a...

Of all those in Russia’s “near abroad,” who nervously look over their shoulders at Ukraine and wonder who is next, there is one individual with mor...

Promoting diversity in education was one the biggest and most widely practiced ideas of the 20th century. But as Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Pr...

The flood of responses was “unprecedented.” Since the early 20th century, agencies like the Federal Communications Commission have asked the public...

My elementary school had a separate classroom for students who were non-native speakers of English. As far as my friends and I were concerned, it w...

New America Fellow Mei Fong explains what you need to know about Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, and why the violent turn was so unexpected. More:...

Australians like to think of themselves as green. Their island country boasts some 3 million square miles of breathtaking landscape. They were an e...

Over the course of the last 15 years or so, there’s been an explosion in the number of charter schools around the country. According to the latest ...

A U.S.-led coalition once again wades into his neighborhood to rid it of terrorism, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the U.S. and other W...

On Tuesday, President Obama made what was, for many, a surprising announcement. Not only had the United States conducted the first air strikes on t...

Sometimes, vague can be misleading—and harmful. For years colleges have doled out financial aid to disadvantaged students based primarily on “diver...

At Sunday’s People’s Climate March, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to cut emissions in the city to 80 percent of 2005 levels by 2050. T...

If you want to learn how the economy works, what do you study? Most people would respond with “economics.” But today, there is a growing concern th...

Conventional wisdom and media narratives suggest that visible populist movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street emerged in response to t...

Last week, when President Obama announced his intention to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS, he gave a clear rationale: leaders of the radical...

If we learned anything from the movie _The Social Network, _it’s that the moment when Mark Zuckerberg included a “relationship status” on profile p...