It's been a big week for net neutrality. After a over a year of vigorous debate about the best way to protect the Open Internet, Federal Communicat...

The Nationwide Super Bowl ad featured a somber moppet riding a trike, getting his first kiss, and sitting forlorn at a child wedding in a forest, d...

President Obama released his proposed budget for 2016 this week. Among its biggest and most talked-about elements are suggested changes to policies...

This piece is part of “From Moment to Movement,” a conversation and essay series on race and policy in America in collaboration with Howard Univers...

If you were a prospective father 20 years ago, getting paternity leave was almost universally a tricky business, no matter where you lived or worke...

Smartphones, tablets, wearables and a mushrooming variety of mobile devices are now a fundamental part of life in America. According to surveys by ...

What do you think of when you think of Pittsburgh? Throughout its history, the Pittsburgh region has been closely identified with energy sources th...

As a mother of a young child today, I know much has changed for mothers in the workforce since my mother and her mother had children. But there’s o...

The abortion debate has largely fallen off the front page these days, but even though the abortion rate in the United States is at a 40-year low, o...

Anya Kamenetz is very clear when she says she didn’t set out to write about standardized testing. A 2014 New America Fellow and lead education blog...

A decade ago, Philadelphia’s outdated sewer system—like much of the nation’s infrastructure—was crumbling, causing a nasty brew of storm-water, raw...

With the deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris earlier this month, pundits are again questioning a commonly-cited motive for radicaliza...

Within the space of a week, President Obama delivered a message in the State of the Union that wealth should be taxed to ease the burden on the mid...

Borders are perhaps the biggest and most contentious issue when it comes to trade, immigration, diplomacy, and innovation. Twenty years after NAFTA...

Sometimes it seems like climate change discussions are stuck in the ’90s. We’re still having many of the same debates: Is it real? Are our children...

Almost four years after what began as a demonstration against President Bashir al Assad in Daraa in March 2011, Syria is still in crisis. Victimize...

The post-State of the Union punditry often focuses on what the President said — and what he plans to do. We hear a lot less about what he didn’t sa...

In the week leading up to this year’s State of the Union, the question of whether the speech and its rituals still matter seemed to get almost as m...

After terrorists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, a group of European Union ministers executed a more covert attack on fre...

Last year was disastrous for the original moderate, secular, democratic goals of the Syrian revolution. As the Syrian civil war enters its fourth y...

In the story of the American Dream, the moral is that with hard work, making a comeback or reinventing yourself is possible. Inherent in that moral...

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...