If you’re a woman living in Raqqa, Iraq, you already had enough to worry about: your government recently lost a quarter of the country to the Islam...

On Monday, President Obama announced his support for net neutrality- the idea that the Internet should remain free and open, and Internet Service P...

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We didn’t know what to expect after the heady days of November 1989. What exactly would follow from the fall of the Berlin wall? Would this mean th...

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a different wall has taken its place. But instead of separating East and West, this other “wal...

If you want to know who to blame for any number of global and domestic crises, there is one simple answer, according to many critics: Barack Obama....

Last week, New America's Open Technology Institute released the 2014 edition of the Cost of Connectivity, an annual survey of broadband speeds and ...

This pill came with a promise: help extinguish sexism from public life by removing a key roadblock for women. If women could plan when and whether ...

Idealistic television shows like The West Wing portray government as a place for grand ideas and big think. But the reality is that working in gove...

In the years after the song appeared as the title track on Springsteen’s 1984 album, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” has been overanalyzed an...

In 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall tore open the Iron Curtain, less visible fault lines remain between East and West in G...

If you're between 18 and 34 years old, you _should _be getting ready for the prime of your life — at least according to recent history. That means ...

Is the duty of the documentary to “change the world” or rather to “show the world”? Increasingly, activists and consumers conflate documentary with...

It is the year 2015. Since a final agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached some months ago, there have been a few minor missteps on Tehran'...

Poor Barack Obama. With his many problems sending his approval ratings to record lows, the one thing it seemed he could take solace in was that he’...

“Scarlett, Scarlett!” I waved pleadingly. Across the red carpet she sauntered, her eyes invitingly meeting mine. There I stood—a 24-year-old Jewish...

When disaster strikes, we tend to think big. What will the city do to help the affected population? The federal government? But in fact, many of th...

The day after the attack on the Canadian parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised that he would support new legislation that gave the Can...

Nneka Eze, Lagos Office Director for Dalberg Global Development, explains how health officials in Nigeria used “kanju creativity” – former New Amer...

You’re a health official trying to contain a new case of Ebola in a major world city. Who’s your first call – the country’s top health official? Or...

Imagine that China launches a cyber attack on the United States tomorrow. It devastates systems, crippling the financial sector or causing loss of ...

From the outside, life for a woman in Norway seems nearly perfect. According to UN Reports, Norwegian women enjoy the best standard of living in th...