In the aftermath of Watergate, Carter understood that the way government worked was as important as the specific policies that the government produ...

Yesterday, New America’s Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program submitted joint reply comments with Common Cause to the FCC in the ...

The cost of NSA surveillance.

If we don't make policy changes soon, according to a new report, America runs the risk of losing its fastest-growing resource: students who speak t...

This means that U.S. policy — especially education — is dominated by trust in procedures rather than trust in basic human judgment. That is, instea...

We also consulted with Conor P. Williams, Ph.D., of the New America Foundation, who helped us understand LEAPS in the context of a national movement.

Recent data suggest that American schools are more linguistically diverse now than ever before: In 2011, nearly 22 percent of American PreK–12 stud...

The choice by Apple and Google to incorporate privacy-as-default features into their products adds a populist element to privacy vs. state security...

Today, the Mozilla and Ford Foundations announced they will be sponsoring their first class of Open Web Fellows in 2015, to begin building a new wo...

Since June 2013, senior officials from Brasilia to Berlin have advanced proposals to protect data from foreign surveillance and gain “technological...

*“To attract more foreign direct investment in the United States, Mr. Modi quite simply needs to improve the business climate in India,” said Anish...

The sudden public emergence of the Khorasan group as a threat underlines the fact that the global jihadist movement, which at the time of the 9/11 ...

Many Muslims hoped that the first African-American president, who had opposed the Iraq War as a candidate, would be quite different than his predec...

*“Pro-democracy” demonstrators continue to pack the streets of Hong Kong in the thousands, defying local police who have fired tear gas to disperse...

The letter to the Justice Department is being written by Barry C. Lynn, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of “Cornered: The ...

Guest Blog Post: This post is contributed by Melissa Goldberg, Innovation Strategist at Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund. You can learn more about D2D...

The recently released 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances from The Federal Reserve points to increased student loan debt among young Americans (famili...

A number of foreign-policy agendas have taken shape among the Democrats, and all are likely to be part of the debate in the primary season.

On Monday, The New York Times reported that the group will also lobby the Department of Justice to investigate Amazon for illegal monopoly tactics....

Now fears are growing that the town in Helmand province could soon fall again to the insurgents, who have taken advantage of the months of politica...

One big but little appreciated reason for our rampant inequality: Half the workforce is routinely treated with grotesque unfairness.