Australians like to think of themselves as green. Their island country boasts some 3 million square miles of breathtaking landscape. They were an e...

Over the course of the last 15 years or so, there’s been an explosion in the number of charter schools around the country. According to the latest ...

On Tuesday, President Obama made what was, for many, a surprising announcement. Not only had the United States conducted the first air strikes on t...

Poverty The new Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, was interviewed in an article for Politico Pro on the ...

Sometimes, vague can be misleading—and harmful. For years colleges have doled out financial aid to disadvantaged students based primarily on “diver...

America will continue to be the world’s image factory, but this is an era of codependency. In order to function smoothly, Americans will have to lo...

A U.S.-led coalition once again wades into his neighborhood to rid it of terrorism, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the U.S. and other W...

At Sunday’s People’s Climate March, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to cut emissions in the city to 80 percent of 2005 levels by 2050. T...

If you want to learn how the economy works, what do you study? Most people would respond with “economics.” But today, there is a growing concern th...

The gruesome images circulated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria might have grabbed the headlines in recent weeks, but the group is merely the...

The Pentagon says the al Qaeda offshoot group called Khorasan was planning an imminent attack on European or American soil. But did the airstrikes ...

Conventional wisdom and media narratives suggest that visible populist movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street emerged in response to t...

Code for America Summit 2014

Surprise! Scholars have a very different view than policymakers do.

Code for America Summit 2014

Expanding the conversation on Israel/Palestine.

Teach for America has been getting a lot of flak over its training methods—but the real scandal is that kids with five weeks of prep perform as wel...

National security reporter Thomas E. Ricks, a man not subject to confusion, can’t decide whether to call the latest hostilities a new installment o...

Today, New America will host a conversation between Dr. Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, and Fareed Zakaria, Host of Global Public Square on CNN....