As Seeta Peña Gangadharan argues, “Data literacy can’t be taught by parachute or evangelism. The best thing would be to give resources to schools, ...

Half of Americans have no retirement assets, and those who do often neglect their rainy-day fund in favor of longer-term goals. Copyright 2014, Nat...

Earlier this month, one of Israel’s most famous writers announced in his weekly newspaper column that he was packing up his family and moving to th...

As Israel begins another day of Operation Protective Edge, its assault on Gaza, the country also faces an ending that’s going relatively unnoticed ...

Amy Laitinen: ...policy makers want to dig deeper and see what—if anything—works, for whom it works, and under what conditions it works.

Conor Williams: New York is trying in a matter of six months to build the entire system that DC's got twice or three times over. Don't get me wrong...

In my late 50s, at a time of life when most people are supposed to be drifting into a cautious conservatism, I am surprised to find myself moving s...

Lisa Goldman, the Director of the Israel-Palestine Initiative at the New America Foundation, joins us to discuss the apparent symbiosis between Isr...

Lisa Goldman is interviewed on why an Israel ground offensive could have terrible consequences

Seeta Gangadharan, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, says the FCC’s notice and comment period tends...

Those nodes use Commotion software deployed by New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute (OTI) to emit their signals and connect to one an...

Air Canada is among the airlines that cancelled a flight to Tel Aviv Tuesday after reports a rocket exploded not far from the city’s Ben Gurion Int...

Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, said in a news release the revise...

"This comes down to the issue of local choice. It's a matter of whether broadband services in an area meet the needs of the community," Patrick Luc...

Activists and tech companies fended off efforts in the U.S. in the 1990s to ban Internet encryption or give the government ways around it, but an e...

After three years, Google finally got it. Google now admits it was wrong to require real names on Google Plus, and it’s apologized for taking so lo...

Anand Gopal, author of "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes" and a fellow at the Washington-based N...

Late last year a massive data hack at Target exposed as many as 110 million consumers around the country to identity theft and fraud. As details of...

http://ourfuture.org/20140709/democratic-partys-divide-on-education-policy-gets-worse

Anand Gopal has argued convincingly that US troops left in Afghanistan got drawn into tribal feuds and destabilized the south and east of the count...

The article itself, by education journalist Anya Kamenetz, describes Purdue's Course Signals, a kind of semiautomated system to alert students to w...