New America

We are generating big ideas and bold solutions for a new America.

[Open Tech Institute at New America @OTI]

A new report from @NewAmerica's Michael Calabrese warns that an FCC proposal to raise CBRS power limits 320-fold could crowd out the shared spectrum millions of users depend on.

📡 More here: https://t.co/2nZz1SUvAv

[New America @NewAmerica]

A recent report from New America’s Technology & Democracy issue area documents how practitioners across the Global South are developing their own approaches to AI adoption.

🧑‍💻 https://t.co/K1G3dr6A8J

[New America @NewAmerica]

96% of devices on CBRS spectrum run on its free, shared tier, powering everything from factory floors to rural broadband. A pending FCC proposal to raise power limits 320-fold could put that at risk.

📡 Read the report from @OTI's Michael Calabrese: https://t.co/azcPFpWIkF

[New America @NewAmerica]

Rebuilding American democracy after our current crises will require building stronger channels between the government and the public to restore trust in our institutions. But how do we do it?

🗳️ The Reconstructing Democracy Project shares recommendations: https://t.co/qSiygWkhqW

[New America @NewAmerica]

Vermont’s Act 76 created a near-universal child care system. Now, other states and cities are pursuing similar efforts.

New America’s @BetterLifeLab and @LetsGrowKidsAN have six toolkits to help.

🧰 https://t.co/SfQflZGMmN

[New America @NewAmerica]

Gig work offers flexibility. But for workers in Chicago's North Lawndale, it too often means no safety net, no recourse when pay is withheld, and no community.

New America's CivicSpace asks: why should gig workers have to choose?

⏳ https://t.co/hElUXv1QWW

[New America @NewAmerica]

Reading together is a low-barrier, high-reward way for families to connect.

Sarah Gilliland explores how public libraries and book donation programs like Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library can make reading more accessible.

📚 Read The Thread: https://t.co/Ifr0uyVjsV

[New America @NewAmerica]

Through New America’s build4good initiative, students work with nonprofit partners and experienced mentors on high-impact tech projects while exploring careers in public interest technology and social impact.

💻 Explore build4good and find more resources: https://t.co/O669KJunjy

[New America @NewAmerica]

At this year’s Future Security Forum, policymakers, journalists, military leaders, & scholars considered what America’s post-9/11 wars have taught us. Have those lessons been applied to strengthen global security?

🔐 Key takeaways from the event: https://t.co/my7oh06CYV

[New America @NewAmerica]

Policy expert Richard Davis Jr. breaks down what our research with The Eviction Lab at @Princeton indicates about housing insecurity among parenting students.

🏫 Learn more about our Student Parent Initiative: https://t.co/1Sv1awRT6L

[New America @NewAmerica]

The world has changed, but how we teach geopolitics hasn’t kept pace.

@GordonLaforge, Co-Director of New America's Power, People, and Planet Initiative, offers us a fresh syllabus for understanding global politics and power today.

🍎 https://t.co/ohZuLAOQL8

[New America @NewAmerica]

Upcoming at New America

📅 9/28 Higher Education After Trump

📅 9/29 Power at the Polls: Confronting Barriers to Accessible Democracy

📅 #NewAmericaEvents https://t.co/aYPJZ3yUDl

[New America @NewAmerica]

Chinese technology expert and New America Senior Fellow @SammSacks spoke with NPR’s All Things Considered about U.S.-China talks on AI, including informal “Track Two” dialogues that have revealed shared concerns about AI risks.

🎙️ Read the full article: https://t.co/2pBZdtEUvl

[New America @NewAmerica]

What does the ROAD to Housing Act get right, and where does it fall short?

Four housing experts weigh in on rental affordability, Housing Choice Vouchers, public housing, and homelessness in the latest edition of The Rooftop.

🏡 https://t.co/ZVTNS86dZ6

[New America @NewAmerica]

Multilateralism is under strain, but the challenge may lie less in international cooperation than in the institutions that govern it. Heela Rasool-Ayub examines what comes next.

🌐 Read the report: The Future of Multilateralism Is Up for Grabs → https://t.co/94QwMFPv7e

[Elliot Ackerman @elliotackerman]

Twenty-five years after 9/11, war reporting has changed dramatically.

I joined Steve Coll, Azadeh Moaveni, Joby Warrick, and Kimberly Dozier to discuss the risks, lessons, and future of conflict journalism.

https://t.co/t9IuyzTShh

#Journalism #WarReporting #NationalSecurity

[New America @NewAmerica]

In a new report for New America’s @BetterLifeLab, @BrigidSchulte and @ehaspel consider how better understanding the realities of care may be a critical first step toward building effective policy solutions.

📊 Learn more about the care disconnect: https://t.co/te3aJVJ6wK

[New America @NewAmerica]

In a recent report for New America’s New Practice Lab, Keara Cormier-Hill considers how a more expansive understanding of safety can better reflect the full scope of families’ concerns and daily realities.

🔒 Read the publication: https://t.co/vqtDR2Pfv2

[New America @NewAmerica]

Future Security Forum | Panel: The View From America's Partners

“The contestation between the U.S. and China is probably the single dominant security dimension to the rest of our lives and that will be existential one way or another.”

—Brig. Ian Langford, @SecDefencePLuS