*Making government payments contingent on measurable results is part of a larger push for “evidenced based” policy-making. Outside of government, s...

However, the New America Foundation report rejected the arguments carriers have made. The report included an engineering study, conducted by the fo...

Are the recent midterm voters reflective of the American public? Today on The Gist, history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer explains wh...

At Zhuhai 2014, China debuts the Y-20 heavy transport to the entire world, with a USAF C-17A Globemaster III present as a guest of honor. Meanwhile...

Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, said that the scandal dragging into 2015 is problematic as Mr. C...

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday evening, Senator Reid moved to end debate and call the USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685) up for a vote on the Senate floor, a vo...

If you’re a woman living in Raqqa, Iraq, you already had enough to worry about: your government recently lost a quarter of the country to the Islam...

In the expensive briar patch that is American healthcare, generic drugs have been key to keeping costs down. But intellectual property provisions i...

On Monday, President Obama announced his support for net neutrality- the idea that the Internet should remain free and open, and Internet Service P...

Douglas Ollivant, ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America, explains that as we observe Veterans Day, we should also remember that the childr...

The United States and China—the world’s biggest contributors to climate change—just produced a game changer. Leaders of the two countries jointly a...

When the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, some say our world order cracked wide open. This month’s twenty-fifth anniversary of that miles...

A casual reading of human history (or a high school textbook) might suggest the crucifixion of Jesus, Matthew Perry’s opening of Japan, and D-day a...

She was 14. She believed them when they told her that her future – her own family, a home, economic salvation – was just a few feet away. That lie ...

If we can end the elitism and teach more science fiction to teenagers and young adults, we can change the world. This assertion, while bold, may no...

WASHINGTON, DC – New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) today released an engineering study showing that mobile broadband providers have the...

San Antonio — By raising its sales tax slightly in the sprng of 2013, San Antonio launched a $38 million public preschool program now serving 1,500...

The notion that this process can be managed to American advantage is nonsense. We saw what a comparable effort to redraw boundaries to accommodate ...

I didn't see what the big deal was about the New York Times story on chemical weapons in Iraq, mainly because in '03-'04 everyone there knew there ...

The Pentagon's principal cyber advisor, Assistant Secretary of Defense Eric Rosenbach, said about cyber operations last month, "The place where I t...

China has joined the U.S. in being the only nations to have built multiple stealth fighter classes. This week, China shows off its newest fighter, ...

It’s one thing to be able to create a policy. It’s another altogether to be able to execute it. Without a strategy that is executable and with suff...