The American Prospect

When Anne Marie Slaughter launched the latest battle in the Mommy Wars with her Atlantic cover story “Why Women Still Can't Have It All,” which inspired a barrage of features about retro wives—young, high-achieving professionals leaving their careers ...

... we will never be able to identify in advance the people who wreak this type of evil." But we can stop overreacting after such attacks. As Romesh Ratnesar notes in Bloomberg Businessweek, "Learning how to live with terrorism is the surest way to ...

"If it were represented as a model without a key, you'd zoom out and see it's too small," said Tamar Jacoby, president, ImmigrationWorks USA. "The question that's being posed is, over next two or three decades, will lower-skilled immigration into the U ...

Nicholas Thompson, a New Yorker reporter based in Boston, wrote, "Today, there was a dramatic finish to the men's race. An American woman came in fourth, as did an American man, one who doesn't even have a shoe contract. But marathons aren't about ...

As Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland of the New America Foundation wrote, "Just as the U.S. government justifies its drone strikes with the argument that it is at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates, one could imagine that India in the not too distant ...

A landmark report came out last week from the New America Foundation featuring a novel plan to fix the federal student aid program. What makes it so new? It helps more Americans finish college—the end game of federal student aid—without burdening them with debt. ...

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Romney made a shrouded reference to a similar idea of empowering poor families with school choices during the campaign, which Slate's Dana Goldstein described as the "most radical, furthest left idea currently in the mainstream education debate." ...

Lind salts his closing chapters with the kind of inventive policy propositions that his New America Foundation so abundantly generates. More investments in infrastructure. Better control of health-care costs. Extension of the Earned Income Tax Credit ...

In this, Kristof echoes another male journalist, Jason DeParle, who wrote a lengthy feature for The New York Times Magazine that posited that the only real solution to the economic woes of working class mothers is a wedding ring. DeParle compared the ...