Items tagged ‘new-america’

  • article | January 22, 2015

    The World-Wide Muzzle and What to Do About it

    Priya Kumar Rebecca MacKinnon
    After terrorists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, a group of European Union ministers executed a more covert attack on fre...
  • article | January 22, 2015

    Why Rebels Have Failed in Syria

    Loubna Mrie
    Last year was disastrous for the original moderate, secular, democratic goals of the Syrian revolution. As the Syrian civil war enters its fourth y...
  • article | January 15, 2015

    The End of Gender Norms?

    Elizabeth Weingarten
    What determines your destiny? That’s a big question with what should be a complicated answer. But for many, the answer can be reduced to one word: ...
  • article | January 15, 2015

    Teachers of Toddlers Should Earn Like They Matter

    Laura Bornfreund
    Picture this: A four-year-old is in a sandbox, running sand and pebbles through a sieve. An adult is at his side, asking him to describe the speed ...
  • article | January 15, 2015

    Does the Man Make the Moment

    Georgia Keohane
    What’s in a moment? At the 1963 March on Washington and elsewhere, Martin Luther King, Jr spoke of “the fierce urgency of now,” the need for immedi...
  • article | January 15, 2015

    Fighting Terrorists With Our Ideals Intact

    Yascha Mounk
    After last week’s terror attacks in Paris, European leaders invoked the spirit of unity. Barely a week later, it has become painfully evident that ...
  • podcast | January 15, 2015 | Breadwinning & Caregiving

    Leisure Is the New Productivity

    New America
    Instead of working harder to be more productive, we need to work smarter by taking time out to relax and connect with friends and family. In study ...
  • article | January 15, 2015

    Why Hero Mothers Can’t Save Kyrgyzstan

    Sarabrynn Hudgins
    You’ve heard about Tiger Mothers. But do you know about Hero Mothers? Kyrgyzstan has a policy that designates women who have seven or more children...
  • article | January 15, 2015

    The Return of the Protest Song

    Salamishah Tillet
    In 1964, Bob Dylan, author of the early-1960s protest anthem “Blowin in the Wind” and one of the most celebrated political singers of his generatio...
  • event | January 15, 2015

    Common Interests, Common Ground

    Remarks by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell

    New America
    New America is pleased to host Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell for a speech on common values, interests an...
  • event | January 13, 2015 |

    The Fierce Urgency of Now

    Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society

    New America
    The Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts; the War on Poverty; Medicare and Medicaid; the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities – these ...
  • article | January 08, 2015

    Killing Those Who “Defame” Islam

    Peter Bergen
    In the modern era killing those who purportedly have defamed Islam began with the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini’s infamous fatwa—religious ruling—that...
  • article | January 08, 2015

    Europe, Let’s Talk About Islam

    Yascha Mounk
    Wednesday morning, two assailants armed with Kalashnikovs forced their way into the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine...
  • article | January 08, 2015

    The Roots of Radicalism We Don’t Discuss

    Morwari Zafar
    Have you ever been so heartbroken that you joined the conservative faction of a local mosque? Khalid did, because he felt he had no other way to co...
  • article | January 08, 2015

    Can the Young Turks Save US?

    Ari Ratner
    Does America need an Arab Spring? It’s a question that may seem absurd after the turmoil following the revolutions of 2011. Yet, it’s the question ...
  • article | January 08, 2015

    The Islamic State’s Plan For 2015

    Jeremiah Foxwell
    What’s next for the Islamic State in 2015? Clandestine domination, and exploiting America’s huge regional blind spots. The Islamic State of Iraq an...
  • article | January 08, 2015

    The Master Predictors of 2014

    Fuzz Hogan
    The huge drop in oil prices in 2014 might have come as a shock to you, unless you saw it coming. Germany's win in the World Cup probably came as le...
  • article | January 08, 2015

    One Is Not Born, But Rather Becomes, a Citizen

    Jane Greenway Carr
    The more technology they accumulated, the more profoundly powerless they felt. That was the paradox Hahrie Han and Elizabeth McKenna discovered as ...
  • policy paper | December 22, 2014 |

    After Winning, Then What?

    An Inside Look at Four Winners of Federal Early Education Grant Competitions

    Paul Nyhan with introduction by Abbie Lieberman
    Over the last six years competitive grants have played a large role in triggering changes in the early education space, which has been a growing pr...
  • article | December 18, 2014

    The New Old Black-Jewish Alliance

    Ari Ratner
    It was Sunday morning, and I was in church. Being Jewish, this is not how I typically spend my weekends, but attending Washington, DC’s Nineteenth ...
  • article | December 18, 2014

    One Teacher's Signature Move

    New America
    Despite increases in access to education in Pakistan, the country still has the third highest out-of-school population in the world. And, with even...
  • article | December 18, 2014

    Decorating Your Holiday Bookshelf

    Jane Greenway Carr
    Whether you’re Christmas shopping at the last minute or looking to ring in 2015 with a good book, New America’s got you covered with a cornucopia o...