Third Grade Reading Laws: A Look at the Leading States
Research suggests that students who do not achieve proficiency by the end of third grade are less likely to graduate from high school.
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.
51 Civil Society Groups and Security Experts Tell Congress They Oppose Cyber Legislation
Today, 51 civil society organizations and security experts wrote to Congress, strongly opposing the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the bill that
Before We Pass Judgment on the Supreme Court’s Progressive 2015…
...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
Country of Old
Mei Fong examines why China changed its one-child policy—and why it did so too late to help its rapidly graying population.
Double Take: Speaking on Freedom of Speech
Two takes on whether freedom of speech is under attack on university campuses.
Myanmar’s Moment
Myanmar’s election was an important event—but that in itself does not a democracy make, writes Oren Samet.
No Child left Behind Is Gone, But Will It Be Back?
Melissa Tooley challenges the narrative of why No Child Left Behind was left—well, you get the idea.
Should We Engineer Future Humans?
Gene editing has come further than ever before. That means we need to start thinking further ahead than ever before, argues Bina Venkatarama
The FY 2016 Spending Bill Brings Some Holiday Cheer for Early Education
Early Wednesday morning, the House and Senate appropriations committees released their FY 2016 omnibus funding bill.
Was This the Year of Financial Inclusion?
No. But Patricia Hart says that 2016 might be.
We Need to Clean up Our Understanding of Corruption
More and more Americans feel like outsiders in their own democracy. Janine Wedel articulates a new definition of the corruption that’s makin
Fighting ISIL on Social Media
State Department Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Rick Stengel joins New America’s President and CEO.
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Omnibus Funding Bill is a Privacy and Cybersecurity Failure
Today, congressional leaders released a sweeping appropriations bill that would fund the federal government through fiscal year 2016. The pr