In a recent episode of Democracy Deciphered, @newamerica.org's @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social unpacks how data can both expose injustice and be weaponized as a tool of control. 🎧Tune in: https://go.newamerica.org/democracy-deciphered-weaponization-of-data-5

Is the lack of young voices in politics weakening American democracy? A new report from Protect Democracy and New America's Oscar Pocasangre examines the widening age divides in U.S. politics. 📄Explore the paper: go.newamerica.org/the-age-divide-5

Women in politics are often targeted with digitally altered content that sexualizes them without consent. In this report, our #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellow examines the harm and how to stop it. 💻 https://go.newamerica.org/a-weapon-against-women-in-politics-5

A #TikTok deal has been reached, but that shouldn’t become a shortcut for avoiding real reform or a license to use national security to mask protectionist technology policy. Read more from @newamerica.org's @lcoral.bsky.social, our VP: www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/the...

📣 We’re hiring an Initiative Director with the Future of Land and Housing Program! Lead a national initiative to expand eviction data, unite partners, shape policy, and manage a high-impact team. Apply today: go.newamerica.org/initiative-director-5

This week at @NewAmerica.org 📅 9/17 Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights 📅 9/18 Latino Voices: Realizing America’s Pluralistic Future 📅 9/18 Boosting LEO Satellite Capacity: Is the FCC’s Launch on Target? 📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents

An important yet often neglected aspect of cybersecurity is human vulnerability. #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellow Nina-Simone Edwards explores how we can design around gaps in digital access, skills, and literacy to keep everyone safe online. 💻 https://go.newamerica.org/digital-gaps-cyber-threats-5

If you're in DC next Thursday, come join us at this @newamerica.org event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Come for the panel - stay for the empanadas and drinks! RSVP here: events.newamerica.org/latinovoices

New America’s Eviction Data Response Network has received key support to improve housing policy through better eviction data access. Thank you to the Ballmer Group for supporting this critical work, led by @ypanfil.bsky.social 💡Press release: https://go.newamerica.org/eviction-data-investment-5

🎊 We’re thrilled to announce the Class of 2026 New America Fellows! The Fellows Program selected 10 immensely talented Fellows from hundreds of applicants & will support 9 book projects and 1 film project. 🔗 Meet the 2026 #NewAmericaFellows: https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-fellows-current-5

📢 Big news announced at #OTIat15: @premmtrivedi.bsky.social is stepping into the role of director of @newamerica.org's OTI! Kicking off his tenure, Prem gives a presentation on how the program is thinking about building the future internet we want. Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgrD...

@jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, joins #OTIat15 for a fireside chat with @newamerica.org CEO @slaughteram.bsky.social!

📢 HAPPENING NOW! @jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, joins us at our OTI at 15 event for a @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org fireside chat with our CEO @slaughteram.bsky.social! 📅 Tune in virtually: https://go.newamerica.org/oti-at-15-5

Deirdre K. Mulligan (@berkeleyischool.bsky.social) joins #OTIat15 to give keynote remarks!

Jameson Spivack (@futureofprivacy.bsky.social) presents on mental privacy and "neural data" regulations in the U.S. #OTIat15

📣 Today is the day! ⏰ Join us virtually at 3:15p ET for our Open Technology Institute at 15 event where we will celebrate 15 years of working to ensure that every community has equitable access to digital technology and its benefits. 📅 RSVP: https://go.newamerica.org/oti-at-15-5

What does a just, secure AI future require? New America's Planetary Politics Program explores five foundational elements of global AI development—governance frameworks, computing infrastructure, human capital, algorithmic accountability, and data flow. 🛠️ https://go.newamerica.org/who-controls-ai-5

Join us on Sept 15 for a webinar w/ the U.S. National Science Foundation on NSF Regional Innovation #Engines, a new model of place-based S&T investments promoting industrial strategy Feat @brookings.edu @slaughteram.bsky.social @repbillfoster.bsky.social & others www.newamerica.org/center-educa...

I served on a DC jury last week. For @newamerica.org , I wrote about the weird experience of civic responsibility in an occupied city where Jeanine Pirro is the US Attorney: www.newamerica.org/the-thread/d...

The US has the widest age gap between lawmakers and citizens of any OECD country. In a new report with @dustinwahl.bsky.social we explore how winner-take-all elections fuel this divide & how proportional representation could help bring young people into politics www.newamerica.org/political-re...

🎊 Exciting News 🎊 We're pleased to announce that @jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, will be joining us at OTI at 15 for a fireside chat with @newamerica.org CEO @slaughteram.bsky.social! 📆 There's still time for you to register to attend virtually: https://go.newamerica.org/oti-at-15-5

The rising demand for artificial intelligence is ramping up the need for data centers around the world. 2025 #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellow Seungmin Helen Lee highlights the unique cybersecurity vulnerabilities of these centers in a new report. 🏢 https://go.newamerica.org/securing-the-backbone-of-ai-5

We can’t wait to announce the Class of 2026 New America Fellows! The Fellows’ projects are centered around big, bold ideas that will spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day. 🤩 #NewAmericaFellow https://go.newamerica.org/2026-newamerica-fellow-applicants-5

The growing severity of climate disasters threaten people’s right to safe, livable housing. Climate change experts explore affordable cooling options amid rising heat & housing innovations to help protect communities. ☀️ Read The Rooftop: https://go.newamerica.org/future-land-housing-the-rooftop-5

Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Us@250 Fellow Calvin Krippner reflects on Hurricane Katrina’s legacy and how the disaster exposed deep cracks in American democracy. 🌀 https://go.newamerica.org/hurricane-katrina-american-democracy-failures-5

In a recent episode of Democracy Deciphered, @NewAmerica.org’s Candace Rondeaux and Ben Dalton explain the Russia and Ukraine peace talks. 🎧 https://go.newamerica.org/democracy-deciphered-russia-ukraine-5

Emily Kassie's award-winning doc Sugarcane offers a searing investigation into child abuse against First Peoples in Canada. Explore her work and other powerful stories from New America Fellows like Vann R. Newkirk, Clint Smith, and more. 🎞️ https://go.newamerica.org/fellows-archive-stories-kassie-5

For 15 years, OTI has championed digital equity for all communities. RSVP to the 9/9 livestream of our Open Technology Institute at 15 event to explore the past, present, and future of tech policy. 🔗 Don’t miss it! https://go.newamerica.org/oti-at-15-5

@newamerica.org's OTI is part of the coalition of privacy and civil rights groups calling on American universities to defend free speech by dismantling campus surveillance and invasive data collection. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...

The president promised young people new opportunities. But his policies fall short. 🧵 Writing for @newamerica.org's digital magazine The Thread, @ivysullivan.bsky.social unpacks how cuts to #college and career readiness programs leave #GenZ with fewer pathways to success—and how we course correct.

🆕Tiffany Thai is out with a new article for @newamerica.org's Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative, drawing on insights from our research on #AI education at #communitycolleges, including our capture of #students experiences in these programs. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

“American leadership is older today than at any other time in history.” Oscar Pocasangre and @dustinwahl.bsky.social explore the depth of the age divide in a NEW REPORT co-published by @protectdemocracy.org and @newamerica.org protectdemocracy.org/age-divide

We’ve watched the internet become a tool of surveillance, control, and corporate dominance. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org's @premmtrivedi.bsky.social explores how we can rebuild a more democratic digital future. 🛜 go.newamerica.org/how-to-rebui...

Trump wants to deploy U.S. special forces against cartels—but as journalist and Iraq war vet Seth Harp reveals in his new book The Fort Bragg Cartel, some U.S. military elites have collaborated with cartels in narco-trafficking schemes. 🔗 RSVP: 8/26 https://go.newamerica.org/fort-bragg-seth-harp-5

For the past 15 years, OTI has been working to ensure that every community has equitable access to digital technology and its benefits. Join OTI on 9/9 for a lightning talk + past/present directors panel on the future of tech policy 💻 @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org go.newamerica.org/oti-at-15-5

Pulitzer Prize–winner Katie Engelhart didn't set out to be an expert on death & dying but covering uncomfortable stories is part of her mission. Read more about Katie’s powerful reporting on the right-to-die movement in the Fellows Archive. 🖋️ go.newamerica.org/fellows-arch...

New America experts around the web: 1️⃣ @educationwork.newamerica.org Rachel Fishman for @insidehighered.com bit.ly/4fwx7GY 2️⃣ Heela Rasool-Ayub for @aljazeera.com bit.ly/47schqb 3️⃣ @brigidschulte.bsky.social for @usnews.com bit.ly/4mke4lW

We’ve watched the internet become a tool of surveillance, control, and corporate dominance. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org's @premmtrivedi.bsky.social explores how we can rebuild a more democratic digital future. 🛜 go.newamerica.org/how-to-rebui...

While we wait for Congress, Gen Z is getting to work! Check out my latest piece for @newamerica.org The Thread! www.newamerica.org/the-thread/g...

Closing the federal Dept of Ed will be a train wreck for lots of practical, logistical, and financial reasons, but there's also a principle at stake: This is an abandonment of the democratic mission of #publiceducation. My latest for @newamerica.org: #publiced #publicschools #schoolfunding #edusky

From our new podcast: Without strong political parties, you don’t get consensus—you get chaos. No democracy has ever existed without parties. Hollow, broken parties = hollow, broken democracy. @leedrutman.bsky.social @newamerica.org @msifry.bsky.social #ThisOldDemocracy

I'm out with a new op-ed today for InsideSource's DCJournal: How #CommunityColleges Can Realize the Promise of #AI Action Plan 4 priorities for interagency collaboration, on the heels of the newly dropped action plan & the workforce development plan. dcjournal.com/how-communit... @newamerica.org

New America experts around the web: 1️⃣ @politicalreform.newamerica.org Maresa Strano for @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social bit.ly/3UN4HiJ 2️⃣ @educationwork.newamerica.org Rachel Fishman for @insidehighered.com bit.ly/4fwx7GY 3️⃣ Heela Rasool-Ayub for @aljazeera.com bit.ly/47schqb

Policymakers should study and pilot programs that foster partnerships between the labor sector and researchers, which can help technologists identify productivity bottlenecks, overlooked implementation challenges, and solve industry problems, @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social writes.

@outinnationalsecurity.org and @newamerica.org are proud to honor more than 30 distinguished LGBTQIA+ professionals in U.S. national security and foreign policy. Please join us in recognizing this year's impressive lineup of honorees. Congratulations to all! 🏳️‍🌈 go.newamerica.org/2025-lgbtqia...

The working homeless—people who hold down jobs yet can't afford rent—are an indictment of American life. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social tells their stories in his groundbreaking debut book. 📖 Visit the Fellows Archive for more: go.newamerica.org/fellows-arch...

Despite promises to "Make America Skilled Again," federal cuts to career readiness programs have left Gen Z without the support they need to explore and launch their careers, argues @ivysullivan.bsky.social of @educationwork.newamerica.org. 💻 go.newamerica.org/gen-z-skille...

This week on Politics in Question, @leedrutman.bsky.social and James Wallner of the Foundation for American Innovation dive into redistricting. Is the Texas gerrymandering standoff a breaking point? Who really controls the maps—politicians or the people? 🎙️ go.newamerica.org/politics-in-...

@zahavastadler.bsky.social of @educationwork.newamerica.org argues that the dismantling of the Department of Education marks a tragic departure from America’s tradition of seeing public education as key to our nation’s democratic promise. 🏫 go.newamerica.org/trump-admin-...

In a new post for @NewAmerica.org's The Thread, Haley Swenson of the Better Life Lab emphasizes the importance of rebuilding the economic and social conditions that once made having a family possible. 💰 go.newamerica.org/raising-birt...