Count What Matters: Building Data Infrastructure for Early Childhood Systems
This resource is designed for state and local policymakers, agency leaders and staff, and advocates working to strengthen early childhood data systems.
Care Innovation Hub
The Care Innovation Hub is a living collection of the people, programs, and policies redefining what care looks like in America — from child care and paid leave to aging and family caregiving. Explore original reporting, research, and stories that spotlight new models for supporting the caregivers and care recipients who make daily life possible.
Announcing the 2026-2027 PAYA Youth Council
Meet the 2026–27 PAYA Youth Council and the young leaders advancing youth apprenticeship nationwide.
Why Is No One Talking About the ‘New War’ Trump Is Waging in Somalia?
Zeteo quoted Future Security Deputy Dirctor David Sterman and New America’s data on U.S. strikes in Somalia.
The Quiet Dismantling of Head Start: How the Trump Administration Is Using Regulation to Reshape a Program It Can’t Eliminate
The forthcoming proposed rule seems designed to hollow out the program from within.
The AI Race Is a Clash of Mythologies
The US-China AI race is usually framed as a contest of compute and capabilities. The deeper divergence is mythological: America’s frontier logic versus China’s rejuvenation narrative. When these two scripts collide in a crisis, neither side’s AI will behave as its designers presumed — and neither side is built to recognize the other’s restraint.
Mitch McConnell’s Absence from the US Senate Reignites Debate About Age Limits
Oscar Pocasangre was quoted in ABC News Australia on America’s gerontocratic political class.
Why Marriage Isn’t Dying—It’s Getting Harder to Do Right
Marriage isn’t disappearing—it’s getting harder. Historian Stephanie Coontz joins New America’s Better Life Lab to explore why fairness and gender equality, not just commitment, define the future of marriage.