When you dial 911, you expect emergency responders to—well—respond, often by coming to you. But as more and more people use mobile devices to conta...

Judging by the outrageous sexism recounted in Mundy’s article and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s book last year that included her treatment by male c...

Al-Awlaki was an influence on the two Tsarnaev brothers, who are alleged to have killed three people at the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.

The risk a returning fighter poses will depend on the reasons for his or her return, as well as the way he or she is treated once back.

“Open data has been a space where it’s just public knowledge being digitized and that’s good,” says Laurenellen McCann, a civic innovation fellow a...

Julian Zelizer talked about his book, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for The Great Society, about the importan...

If oil prices stay at their current level, the Defense Department stands to save about $2 billion this year. Defense News reports the Pentagon has ...

“They seized control of the equivalent of the social media loudspeaker for Centcom,” said Peter Singer of the New America Foundation’s Future of Wa...

The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation and Public Knowledge submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ...

“There is no concept of deterrence today in cyber,” a former hacker turned security executive tells Harris. “It’s a global free-fire zone.”

Ava DuVernay talks about the controversy over her depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in her film "Selma." Elizabeth Alexander, Mychal Denzel Smith and ...

On The Gist, Princeton professor Julian Zelizer offers a corrective for how we think of LBJ and all presidents. His new book is The Fierce Urgency ...

According to data collected by New America, based on media reports and court documents, of the 455 individuals who have been publicly identified fr...

Inspired by the acclaimed book by Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt is a satiric yet serious examination into the...

The Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts; the War on Poverty; Medicare and Medicaid; the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities – these ...

A recent paper published by the National College Access Network (NCAN) and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center analyzed the rates of...

*Our guest, Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer, explores this extraordinary period of time in his book, The Fierce Urgency of Now. It’s ...

The door virtually slammed shut with the 1966 midterm election. Yet as Princeton historian Julian Zelizer recounts in his new book, "The Fierce Urg...

“The problem is it simply keeps the story going,” Mr. Zelizer said. “Now that we are getting closer to a real Republican primary, you can’t have to...

Ava DuVernay's "Selma" chronicles a brutal chapter in America's history. She speaks to Melissa Harris-Perry about how she chose to manage the viole...