Safer Cities
New America, in partnership with UN-Habitat, the importance of universal access to safe public spaces in every city and for every citizen.
In-Person
Wollman Hall, The New School
65 West 11th Street, Room B500, New York, NY 10003
Does Anxiety—Or Its Politics—Have a Gender?
Reproductive rights. Equal pay. A strong posture against terrorism? Jane Carr examines whether and why anxiety over national security is a w
How Minnesota Is Addressing Third-Grade Literacy Well Before Third-Grade
Abbie Lieberman explores how far one state has gone in improving early literacy–and how far all fifty still have to go.
Moving Beyond Rape as a Weapon of War in Democratic Republic of the Congo
In Democratic Republic of the Congo, rape isn’t restricted to the battlefield, and Alexa Hassink and Gary Barker argue that we need to stop
Quick Question. Why Are We Still Staring into Putin’s Eyes?
We’re not mind readers. Emily Tamkin argues we need to stop pretending that we can read Putin’s.
The Next Ahmed
Mass and social media alike have exploded with stories about Texan student Ahmed Mohamed. Tammy Johnson writes that the headlines are missin
The Women Who Won Net Neutrality
Net neutrality supporters have won an underdog victory for internet freedom, largely thanks to dozens of women whose efforts have gone unack
What the Office of Personnel Management Got Right
China may have copied 21 million records from the Office of Personnel Management. But there’s something else the rest of the federal agencie
Why Measure School Climate? New America’s Comments on Proposed Surveys
This month, the U.S. Department of Education accepted comments on its School Climate Survey.