2015's Real Person of the Year? The Populist.
Yascha Mounk explains why calling 2015 the year of Angela Merkel is a bit like calling 2006 the year of the Blackberry.
New America is committed to renewing American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age.
Yascha Mounk explains why calling 2015 the year of Angela Merkel is a bit like calling 2006 the year of the Blackberry.
Tuesday January 05, 2016
06:30 PM – 08:15 PM
[u'156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor', u'New York, NY 10010']
Join New America NYC and ChinaFile for a conversation with the New America fellow Mei Fong and other journalists and scholars on China's longest-running social experiment and what it means for a country assessing its impacts and now transitioning beyond it.
More about the eventThursday January 07, 2016
12:15 PM – 01:45 PM
[u'740 15th Street NW, Suite 900', u'Washington, DC 20005']
In a conversation with CNN chief political correspondent Jim Sciutto, New America Fellow Mei Fong talks about her book, "One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment," which explores the human impact of the one-child policy, and what implications China's longest-running social experiment will have on its future.
More about the eventThursday January 14, 2016
12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
New America's Cybersecurity Team works with its networks and other partners to organize and support events that promote the Initiative's objectives. The Business-Policy Roundtable is a monthly convening of top cybersecurity policy experts and business leaders.
The New America Cyber Business-Policy Roundtable is happy to welcome John Crain ...
More about the eventIn 2015, OTI experts wrote multiple policy papers and provided suggested solutions to a diverse selection of issues, spanning encryption, Internet governance, broadband labeling and more. If you missed any, don’t worry, we’ve recapped all ten of OTI’s in-depth policy papers of 2015 below:
February
Best of Assets 2015 showcases the Asset Building Program's favorite moments over the past year.
Stephen Burd is a policy analyst with New America who has studied student aid extensively. He and other critics of non-need-based aid say the pressures experienced at Madison are being felt throughout higher education, causing more and more universities to increase their merit aid spending and furthering a seemingly endless ...
THE PUSH AND PULL OF WORK FOR FAMILIES (TAX/GOVERNMENT FUNDING DEAL EDITION)
The tax/government funding deal that was announced this week contains major improvements for working families, as it made several tax credits for low-income households permanent. Provisions in the bill, according to Chuck Marr of the Center ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congress passed cybersecurity information sharing legislation after over five years of debate. While New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) believes that information sharing can be helpful in some instances, we strongly opposed the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (formerly called CISA), and other bills like it, because they threatened privacy and civil liberties and could actually undermine cybersecurity.
Kevin, Libby, and Andrew debate the best and worst of 2015, including affirmative action, free speech, ratings, and Love, Actually
As it did last year, New America compiled the rankings by beginning with each school’s football graduation success rate (GSR). The GSR is an NCAA measure that, unlike the federal graduation rate, doesn’t penalize schools for having players who transfer or leave for the pros–as long as ...
West Virginia, there’s good news and there’s bad news.
The bad news — and it truly is bad — is that only about 25 percent of the state’s low-income students are reading at grade level by fourth grade.
The good news is that, despite that, West Virginia sits close ...
Yascha Mounk explains why calling 2015 the year of Angela Merkel is a bit like calling 2006 the year of the Blackberry.
Gender disparity in the cybersecurity industry isn’t just a problem for women.
...we’d do well to think of the conservative backlash delivered in the court of opinion, and what that might mean for 2016, cautions Madiba Dennie.
Today, 51 civil society organizations and security experts wrote to Congress, strongly opposing the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the bill that was previously named CISA, and denouncing its inclusion in the omnibus spending bill, which is considered a must-pass measure.
Mei Fong examines why China changed its one-child policy—and why it did so too late to help its rapidly graying population.
Two takes on whether freedom of speech is under attack on university campuses.