Shane Harris joins MSNBC's The Reid Report to discuss the failed Special Forces attempt to rescue an American hostage held by al Qaeda and U.S. pol...

Washington is obsessed with the question of whether government can do anything anymore. With the lame duck session of Congress mired in confrontati...

“While the transfer to Uruguay may prompt some other South American countries to take in released Guantanamo detainees, it really is too difficult ...

Ollivant, who recently returned from a visit to Baghdad surveying the military and political situation, sat down with me to talk about what he saw....

If you draw restrictions that are overly broad, you catch up technologies that have legitimate uses and harm the country’s business interests,” exp...

Tax experts generally think some breaks that have been perpetually extended should be made permanent (the ones that make decent policy sense, like ...

Julian Zelizer talked by remote video from New York City about President Obama’s use of executive action since the 2014 election. He talked about t...

Guests on the Federal News Countdown: Sharon Burke, senior adviser, International Security Program, New America Steve Bucci, director, Douglas and ...

In the spring of 2004, there simultaneously was a Shiite uprising on one side of Baghdad and a Sunni one west of the city, in Fallujah. Yet, the Am...

President Obama nominated Ashton Carter as Defense Secretary on Friday. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports on Carter’s defense background. Then, Ret. A...

Which Julian Zelizer, political historian at Princeton University, thinks provided a murky picture of the damage a shutdown could do. "The last rou...

In the last fourteen years, the number of certificates (non-degree awards that require less time to complete than degrees) has increased significan...

"After the elections, all these discussions about this lameduck presidency actually offered a little space for him to show that's not the case," sa...

This isn’t to say that all school reformers have been silent. Individual reformers, including Groff, Conor P. Williams of the New America Foundatio...

Good politics might be described as the art of cloaking your special interest in the general interest. But when you become the symbol of big money ...

Christie's Canadian junket is a balancing act, says Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian and professor of public policy at Princeton University...

In the summer of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Martin Luther King, civil rights activists and more than 700 mostly white col...

Legislation It has been a big week in the asset building field, as legislation has moved forward at the state and national levels. Deirdre Shesgree...

Join New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter as she finds out from US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power what it really takes to keep the peace and o...

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