At last, unemployment is easing. But the latest low rate – hovering below 6 percent –obscures a deeper, longer-term problem: “skills mismatches” in...

This blog in our series Regulatory Environments for Youth Savings in the Developing World will address two critical barriers that youth in the deve...

New America Fellow Brian Barber describes what you need to know about the Gaza Strip that you can’t see in photographs and don’t hear enough about ...

Being a foot soldier in the Lebanese Armed Forces surely ranks high on the list of unenviable professions. Aside from trying to maintain calm along...

One week of presidential politics in the spring of 1987 changed political journalism forever and not for the better. So says noted political writer...

The fate of the embattled Syrian town of Kobani, located right on the border with Turkey, has become intertwined with Kurdish movement for independ...

To the Islamic State, Syrian women are slaves. To much of the rest of the world, they are victims. It’s time we expose their real identity: an unta...

It’s still a fairly new issue, because it wasn’t really until the Arab Spring that people started to realize communication technology as a tools of...

By election day, an estimated $200 million in “dark money” will have flowed into the 2014 mid-term elections, more than any other election season w...

Nordberg defines bacha posh as a "historical and present-day rejection of patriarchy by those who refuse to accept the ruling order for themselves ...

Princeton University Professor Julian Zelizer contends intraparty fights have contributed to this election about nothing.

“What a shockingly bad idea. You don’t want government dictating good security practice,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the X-Lab, a privacy co...

Katherine Taylor, lawyer and bioethicist, and journalist Liz Mundy join Andrea Mitchell to discuss Facebook’s and Apple’s announcement that they wi...

WASHINGTON, DC – New America recently convened a panel of financial inclusion experts to explore a range of questions related to the use of youth s...

Julian Zelizer, a political science professor at Princeton University, said "it's not a great time for the president," but appearances like the one...

The story Americans tell ourselves about the American Dream—who gets ahead, and how, and what our own chances might be—obscures and even intentiona...

Anand Gopal moved to Afghanistan in 2008. As Kim Barker writes in The New York Times, "Gopal learned the language, grew a beard and traveled to rem...

As consumer choice in the broadband market has declined and the need for more resilient infrastructure has increased, community wireless networks a...

Of the dozen Americans drawn to fight with ISIS or the al Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front, a profile does appear to be emerging: They are young, typic...