Rachel Black with New America’s Asset Building Program talks with Mark Rank and Tom Hirschl about their new book, Chasing the American Dream.

In the Internet era, the best resources should be able to easily leap political boundaries and get into the hands of teachers across the country. B...

But OPEC has the chance to rise again, says Quartz's Steve LeVine. The International Energy Agency has put a 10-year deadline on America's fracking...

Statistics show children who save money are more likely to set goals for their future, do better in school, and less likely to engage in risky beha...

Anand Gopal, an expert on the Taliban at the New America Foundation, thinks some of them could pose a real threat. "Of the five released Taliban," ...

Of all the news to come out of this week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, one update went almost unnoticed: Apple is partnering with a smal...

Statistics show children who save money are more likely to set goals for their future, do better in school, and less likely to engage in risky beha...

Nearly 13 years after the 9/11 attacks, many Americans were likely surprised to learn that one of their fellow citizens had committed suicide on be...

When Superstorm Sandy hit Brooklyn, a community wireless mesh network in Red Hook helped residents tell people where help was needed and where it w...

Today, the Open Technology Institute and allied civil liberties and human rights organizations sent a letter to the Senate reiterating their suppor...

Anand Gopal was close enough to feel the blast as the Taliban launched rocket-propelled grenades at a NATO fuel tanker in Wardak Province, Afghanis...

Anand Gopal, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of No Good Men Among the Living, a history of the Afghan conflict, agreed. “I a...

Are community tool libraries (shared work equipment, like that pictured above) a civic innovation? Image by slobikelane. As part of our new approac...

Anand Gopal, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of No Good Men Among the Living, a history of the Afghan conflict, agreed. “I a...

“When one professor can teach 50,000 people, it alters the economics of education.” -Andrew Ng, Coursera Historical Context Massive Open Online Cou...

"Consumers already have limited choices in the meat aisle of the grocery store," said Christopher Leonard, a fellow at the New America Foundation a...

Amazon only this week acknowledged the storm it raised earlier this month when it made it much harder for consumers to buy books by Hachette, a maj...

What is the Obama Doctrine? As the President put it Wednesday, "Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."

And, indeed, it is long past time for the United States to transition away from a state of perpetual war now that the threat from al Qaeda to Ameri...