New America
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The Rooftop: Innovative Ideas to Solve the Housing Crisis

The Rooftop offers a home for innovative ideas to address the housing and land rights crisis in the United States and globally.
Future of Land and Housing Collections
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Quiz: What Does DOGE Know About You?

Open Technology Institute Brief

Defending the Department of Education

Education Policy Collections
Highlights

Our Story

Find out more about our distinctive community of thinkers, writers, researchers, technologists, and community activists.

Jobs & Fellowships

Explore the jobs, fellowships, and internship opportunities at New America.

Podcasts

New America's slate of podcasts focuses on telling stories about realizing America's promise of equity and opportunity.
Highlights

Our Story

Find out more about our distinctive community of thinkers, writers, researchers, technologists, and community activists.

Jobs & Fellowships

Explore the jobs, fellowships, and internship opportunities at New America.

Podcasts

New America's slate of podcasts focuses on telling stories about realizing America's promise of equity and opportunity.

We are dedicated to renewing
the promise of America

Read about our mission.

Upcoming Events
May. 5th, 2025

Building Bachelor’s Degree Programs at Rural-Serving Community Colleges

Tune in to learn more about exciting new research on bachelor programs at rural-serving community colleges.
Online Only
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May. 12th, 2025

Meet Me at the Library

Join author Shamichael Hallman to discuss his new book and how libraries can help repair societal fractures.
Online Only
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May. 14th, 2025

Community First: The Future of Public Broadband Conference and Hill Day

This inaugural conference provides two days of strategy, advocacy, discussions and networking in the nation’s capital.
Washington, DC
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Where policy, equity, and
culture come together.

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Recent Publications
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May. 1st, 2025

Re-Scripting Gender, Work, Family, and Care

Hollywood can drive progress by showing that managing work & family care is hard—a new initiative is helping bring this struggle to screen.
By: 
Vicki Shabo
 and 
Jasmine Heyward
Better Life Lab Brief
May. 1st, 2025

Defunding PBS Will Shrink Learning Opportunities for Young Children

Research demonstrates that PBS content promotes school readiness, yet federal lawmakers seek to rescind funds for public media
By: 
Amaya Garcia
Education Policy Blog Post
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May. 1st, 2025

App Store Accountability Act Magnifies Privacy and Security Risks, Says OTI

App-store age verification restricts online spaces for all users regardless of whether or not they are seeking age-restricted content.
Open Technology Institute Press Release
May. 1st, 2025

Who Controls AI?

Planetary Politics is pleased to share our issue brief collection on AI and digital sovereignty.
By: 
Candace Rondeaux
, 
Swati Srivastava
, 
Min Jiang
, and 
Arindrajit Basu
Planetary Politics Collections
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