The PreK–12 Education program works to transform public education by developing, testing, and elevating new approaches that better serve children, youth, and families. Our work spans the full journey of a child’s education—from their earliest years to high school graduation. We pay special attention to students underserved in the current system, including students from low-income families, English learners, and learners with disabilities.

New America’s Political Reform program develops ambitious, evidence-based strategies to repair government dysfunction, rebuild civic trust, and realize the potential of American democracy. We combine structural and cultural approaches to reform, exploring how people engage in democracy not only at the ballot box but through everyday decisions that shape their communities. Our work exposes the dangers of the current “two-party doom loop” and champions the processes and policies needed to achieve a more representative and responsive democracy. We publish books, policy ideas, and practical tools that reimagine self-governance, and then partner with policymakers, community organizations, advocates, journalists, and funders to translate analysis into action. Together, we seek to build a democracy with the capacity, legitimacy, and resilience to serve a dynamic and diverse nation for generations to come.

Planetary Politics confronts the widening gap between today’s global crises and the outdated institutions built nearly a century ago to manage them. Climate change, pandemics, cyber threats, and the diffusion of power across states and corporations have reshaped the international landscape faster than governance systems can respond. These challenges reveal a world where traditional measures of strength—territory, militaries, and markets—no longer determine who shapes outcomes or who bears their consequences.

We call for reimagining global governance to meet this reality and for the advancement of a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable international order that puts people and the planet at the center. We are guided by three main principles: Power now flows from adaptation; global cooperation must welcome all actors; and human and environmental well-being must rise above ideology and zero-sum geopolitics. Through this lens, we work to build the institutions and ideas needed for the 21st century and beyond.