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A Path Forward Out of Political Discontent

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Lee Drutman

The first couple months of the Trump administration have been a harsh winter of discontent in American politics. We barely dodged a government shutdown, the president is issuing illegal orders, and we’re grappling with economic uncertainty. Yet, as winter inevitably turns into spring, will our democratic disaster turn into a moment of renewal? Perhaps.
How Would Constituent Services in American Multi-Member Districts Work?

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Lee Drutman |Anne Meeker

Some reformers have advocated for proportional multi-member districts, suggesting that they would better represent Americans by having more than one member acting on behalf of citizens in the House and the Senate. However, such a shift in representation brings to question how constituent services would work under a multi-member model.
Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group & Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux

Candace Rondeaux examines Russia’s descent into mercenary chaos, revealing how one local crime boss leveraged black markets and Kremlin infighting to build a private army. Her analysis in her latest book, Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group & Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos, traces the roots of this shadow force to the heart of state collapse.
Harvard Has a Weapon in The Fight Against Trump. Here’s Why the University Isn’t Using It.

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Kevin Carey

For the past month, President Donald Trump has been stalking the richest universities in the world like a horror movie serial killer picking off a group of frightened teenagers one by one. Why aren’t they using their multibillion-dollar endowments to fight back? The spree started in early March, when the administration announced it was holding $400 million in federal grants to Columbia hostage until the university agreed to a lengthy list of demands.
When Trump Is Done, What Will Remain of Public Education?

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Adam Harris

Last week, the Trump administration threatened to withhold funding specifically from schools and school districts with high shares of low-income students if they did not verify in 10 days the elimination of certain diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
How Doulas Support Black Mothers and Fight Health Care Disparities

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Julia Craven

After a traumatic experience during her first pregnancy, Tonya Abari wasn’t sure she wanted to have children again. But when she found out she was pregnant, Abari was determined for this time to be different. She sought out Tanzye Hill, a Nashville-based doula she’d befriended in the interim, to help build a Black care team that would respect her.
Manar Morales on Creating Flexible Work Cultures

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Brigid Schulte

By Brigid SchulteManar Morales has been working to help firms shift to flexible cultures since 2006. The one-time employment litigator-turned Founder and CEO of the Diversity and Flexibility Alliance, has just published a new book, The Flexibility Paradigm: Humanizing the Workplace for Productivity, Profitability and Possibility, that’s designed to help others make the change. The goal, Morales says, is to create human-centered workplaces of the future.
The Legal Counteroffensive to Russia’s Hybrid War

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux

In Lawfare, Candace Rondeaux reveals how Wagner has morphed from a brutal mercenary outfit into a covert arm of Russian intelligence. A Polish espionage trial—the first hybrid warfare conviction since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—exposes the network’s deepening role in Moscow’s sabotage operations across Europe. Read here.
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

3 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Adam Harris

A couple of years ago, the conservative writer Christopher Rufo did a fellowship in Budapest, where, upon his arrival, János Csák, Hungary’s then–minister of culture and innovation, “greeted me with a strong handshake,” Rufo later wrote in an essay about the trip.
AFRICOM Provides Death Tolls for 2025 Strikes

3 weeks ago | newamerica.org | David Sterman

On April 3, 2025, in response to a New America query, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) provided its current assessment of the death tolls for six sets of strikes whose press releases did not include numerical assessments of their total death tolls. As a result (combined with other sourcing), there are now reported official death toll assessments for every strike that AFRICOM declared in 2025.