A Twisting Path towards a Better Life: The Experience of Caregiver Students
There are very few things more difficult than keeping or maintaining a work-life balance while having kids and attending college.
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Caregivers in Higher Education
Over the coming months, New America will explore how better to support student caregivers and their families through higher education.
Emergency Preparedness for Prisons Isn’t Just Sandbags and Non-perishables
By changing laws after Hurricane Katrina so that fewer people end up in jail, New Orleans did something arguably better than evacuating.
How Far Has Germany Actually Moved to the Right?
The AfD’s success rests not on a rightward shift—but on boosting turnout among non-voters once reluctant to express racist views publicly.
Texas’ Border Lawmakers Say They’re in the Dark on Troop Deployment
Border lawmakers say that they haven’t been given details about the estimated 5,200-troop deployment on the U.S.-Mexico border.
That Beautiful Barbed Wire
The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.
What We Should Take Away From the Midterms
New America’s Political Reform team discusses the ways, big and small, that this week’s elections reflect important trends in U.S. politics.
FPR at the Internet Identity Workshop
Five Takeaways From Our Time at the Identity Trading Post.
China’s World Internet Conference Struggles to Live Up to Its Name
Insights about Chinese priorities, but little real international engagement
Learning More About a New Certification Program for Media Literacy Teaching
Teachers can gain new skills — or show off their existing ones — in a media literacy certification program from KQED and PBS.