Rodrigo Neves wasn’t expecting a fight. After the city council of Niteroi, Brazil passed a new law earlier this month extending Brazil’s nationally...

Here we go again. Another year, another inconclusive climate change summit. The grim reality haunting the talks that recently wrapped up in Lima is...

Should we re-draw our borders? This question keeps coming up whenever societies or groups of people face existential national threats or serious ch...

I am an arms dealer in Libya, but my weapons reduce violence and last longer than a bullet. As the founder of the Voice of Libyan Women (VLW), a wo...

National Public Radio host Michelle Norris has run The Race Card Project for the past four years. Participants are asked to distill their “experien...

Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist, saw her first rocket launch at age 4. Her father worked at NASA as an engineer, and the thrill of space explo...

There’s a World Turtle Day. A Bubble Bath Day. And even a Talk Like Shakespeare Day. So about a year ago, Wendy Diamond found herself wondering: Wh...

Revolutions are messy, confusing, and brutal. Only afterwards are they recast into neat – and often flawed– narratives. Revolutions are less a test...

“How does revolution happen?” asked Janine Wedel. “Maybe it doesn’t,” mused Lawrence Lessig, evincing a mild case of political resignation that the...

The post-Snowden world is a little like a new parent suddenly worrying about the security of its baby…data. Governments, companies, and citizens al...

Too often, I find myself looking at this or that new map on the happiest places to live in the United States, the states with the most craft beer, ...

We all know that increasingly, Hispanic Americans are at the forefront of national conversations about politics, and not just in the context of the...

“Okay, Rebecca, it’s your turn to find the bomb.” That’s what Tech Sergeant Edward Canell at Buckley Air Force Base said to Rebecca Frankel, a jour...

Reaching an agreement on Iran's nuclear program that ensures Iran will not obtain a nuclear weapon has been a top priority on President Obama's for...

How can citizens be organized and mobilized into participating in 21st century democracy? Why are some civic associations better than others at get...

What can the history of investigative journalism – or global muckraking, as Columbia professor Anya Schiffrin calls it – teach us about the future ...

While they seem to come from different centuries, the makeshift IED of an insurgent and the cutting-edge aerial assets of the world’s largest milit...

Rising income inequality has been the subject of heated debate in 2014, and education is often proffered as a remedy. But do all American learners ...

Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are iss...

The future of American warfare is already here. From the NSA mining the digital data of tech giants such as Facebook and Google to hacker teams pla...

Last week, OTI announced its participation in LinkNYC, a plan to replace aging payphones in New York City with wi-fi hubs or “Links.” The implement...

If the idea of Black Friday crowds makes you want to stay home and curl up with a good book instead, New America’s got you covered with a cornucopi...