Partly as a result of the U.S. energy boom, oil prices have hit a five-and-a-half-year low

How and can we, as a community, collectively curate safe public spaces that all us the opportunity to define what we want community to be?

Mr Russell wants, in particular, to “give a voice” to the sects that are most vulnerable to extinction, either in the sense that their belief syste...

How do we prevent atrocities like those in Bosnia and Rwanda from happening again? Over the course of her career, Samantha Power - U.S. Ambassador ...

The theme for the final multi-stakeholder meeting held on October 23, 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya was “Promoting Youth Financial Capability to Unlock Su...

The problem with our campaign finance system is not that elections cost too much money. The problem is that we have a campaign system dominated by ...

The idea that anybody can participate is the very source of government as platform’s value. It’s also a frequently revisited trope within the civic...

The most important factor is that when it comes to national security, fear usually triumphs over almost everything else.

Audie Cornish talks to Australian terrorism expert David Kilcullen about the relationship between the Australian government and Muslim communities.

Today OTI joined a coalition of 17 privacy advocates, including Public Knowledge, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy & Technology...

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...

“Obviously the president is working very hard right now to avoid Democrats splintering,” said Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer.

“It’s going to happen more frequently in the coming year because he’s taking positions aimed at Iowa (caucus goers) or South Carolina (primary vote...

Inequality A report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) called for redistributive fiscal policy to disrupt inequali...

As presidential historian Julian Zelizer said, paid speeches by former presidents are "another version of the revolving door between Capitol Hill a...

Fellow Hao Wu is a documentary filmmaker whose projects explore the complexities of modern China. In The Road to Fame, he tells the story of the go...

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

Here are seven issues on which we do agree — and we think policy experts across the political spectrum could get behind these common-sense reforms.

Today we’re launching a new project— Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech. This is a project led by Laurenellen McCann that deepens...

"The FCC is tackling the capacity gap and providing a much-needed injection of funding in a program that that has become increasingly strained in r...