Following the Paris climate talks, TCF policy associate Neil Bhatiya explains why 2016 is an ideal year to revisit what the UN can do to address climate-related security risks. [...]

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Public sector unions do more than protect employees—they also contribute to one of the most important foundational interests of the state: democracy. [...]

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Refugee and migration expert Katy Long outlines why it is both morally and politically wrong to curtail Syrian refugee resettlement. [...]

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TCF senior fellow Richard Kahlenberg makes the case against race-based affirmative action and explains why diversity in higher education could be better achieved be employing race-neutral policies. [...]

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TCF policy associate Clio Chang looks at what steps policymakers can take to develop apprenticeship programs and reduce youth unemployment. [...]

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TCF fellow Julie Kashen explains how tech companies like Netflix, Google, and Facebook are setting new standards for family-forward leave policies. [...]

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In this series, TCF senior fellow Patrick Radden Keefe takes stock of the history of—and the damage done—by America's decades-long war on drugs.  [...]

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Photos taken by TCF fellow Thanassis Cambanis during his trip to Syria provide a rare glimpse of daily life inside the country. [...]

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A new report cites evidence that proves middle-class families benefit from high-quality, affordable pre-K just as much as low-income families and should be included in its expansion. [...]

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A "regulatory blind spot" is allowing owners of some former for-profit institutions to escape oversight—all to a significant financial gain. [...]

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A new Century Foundation report says charter schools should take advantage of their flexibility, funding, and political viability to address inter-district segregation. [...]

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TCF senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg issues a call to action, urging policymakers to address the forces fueling America’s growing economic divide. [...]

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A new Century Foundation report confirms that concentrated poverty remains a critical issue that segregates neighborhoods along racial lines and limits opportunity for mobility. [...]

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This report looks at the consequences of raising the minimum wage to $15 for a portion of fast food workers, a change recently proposed by New York's Fast Food Wage Board. [...]

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This Century Foundation report synthesizes that evidence about the SIG initiative and provides recommendations for enabling many more chronically struggling schools serving low-income populations to better educate their students. [...]

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Joining a labor union is one of the best financial decisions a worker can make. Could the creation of an online tool assist employees who want to start a campaign to join [...]

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Pakistan is at a crossroads—can it rise to the challenge of confronting militancy, a lagging economy, and multiple governance failures? [...]

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State pre-K programs have roughly doubled in funding and enrollment over the past ten years, and an increase in classroom diversity could make these programs even better.  [...]

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President Obama's has used his "pen and phone" strategy to great effect in pursuing a progressive policy agenda through executive actions. For this report, TCF staff have reviewed the wide range [...]

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Studies have shown that children learn more in socioeconomically and racially diverse preschool classrooms—so why don't we make classroom integration a priority? [...]

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TCF fellow and award-winning journalist Thanassis Cambanis tells the inside story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by following two courageous and pivotal leaders—and their imperfect decisions that changed the world. [...]

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The official child poverty rate in the United States stands at 20 percent, the second-highest among developed nations. In Seven Lessons about Child Poverty, TCF policy associate Clio Chang dives into simple, proven [...]

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TCF trustee Alicia Munnell and her coauthors look at what America—and Americans—must do to ensure retirement security. [...]

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In this ongoing series of reports, TCF policy associate Michael Cassidy looks beyond the headline statistics about the labor market recovery to examine how it truly affects working Americans. [...]

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Has the public preoccupation with tax policy obscured a greater understanding of government's ability to enhance the general welfare and prosperity of our society at large? [...]

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The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories—why they're wrong, the harm they've [...]

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Moving beyond the debate over whether or not charter schools should exist, A Smarter Charter wrestles with the question of what kind of charter schools we should encourage. [...]

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With race-based admission programs increasingly curtailed, how can colleges pursue race-neutral approaches as a method of promoting diversity? [...]

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Dead Men Ruling explains how American government at all levels suffers from a form of financial gridlock, in which all our tax revenues come in the door committed to future spending. How [...]

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The first book to explain the link between our dysfunctional politics, the nation's stagnating college graduation rates, and rising inequality in America. [...]

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Concentration of Poverty in the New Millennium, authored by TCF fellow and CURE director Paul A. Jargowsky, is the first to compare the 2000 census data with the 2007-11 American Community Survey (ACS), [...]

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This extraordinary collection gathers the never-before-seen correspondence of a true American original, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.—the acclaimed historian, lion of the liberal establishment, and longtime trustee of The Century Foundation. [...]

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The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How did we get here, and how can we emerge [...]

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The bestselling author who correctly predicted the 2008 financial crash now projects an impending boom in the U.S. economy, due mostly to energy innovations that will reindustrialize America and provide millions of [...]

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Why does the most highly advanced industrial country, commanding unparalleled access to vast sources of global intelligence and information, seem to so often miscalculate the realities and risks of its foreign interventions? [...]

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Two-year colleges have opened the doors of higher education for low-income and working-class students as never before, and yet, community colleges often lack the resources to provide the conditions for student success. [...]

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While the “education wars” dominate media coverage of school reform debates, largely unnoticed research is mounting that student outcomes are strongest in districts pursuing intensive collaboration among teachers and administrators [...]

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Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family’ [...]

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In its wide-ranging inquiry into the financial crash, Rethinking the Financial Crisis marshals an impressive collection of rigorous and yet empirically-relevant research that, in some respects, upsets the conventional wisdom about the [...]

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The U.S. Supreme Court case Fisher v. Texas could dramatically alter or eliminate race-based admissions policies at colleges and universities. In a new report, A Better Affirmative Action, Senior Fellow Richard [...]

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The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms [...]

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This report explores how some innovative charter schools are pursuing efforts to integrate students from different racial and economic backgrounds in their classrooms. [...]

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Of the many causes of increased inequality—globalization, changes in technology, and the adoption of regressive tax policies—the virtual collapse of the American labor movement over the past quarter-century [...]

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America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. [...]

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Almost fifty years ago the Coleman Report, widely regarded as the most important educational study of the twentieth century, found that the most powerful predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status [...]

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In the wake of Citizens United, top constitional scholars launch a new jurisprudence to address the rise of unfettered money in politics. What is next for the First Amendment? And how can [...]

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This report, the product of an international task force led by ambassadors Lakhdar Brahimi and Thomas R. Pickering, recommends a political path toward ending the war in Afghanistan. Peace is possible, the [...]

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Affirmative Action for the Rich sketches the origins of legacy preferences, examines the philosophical issues they raise, outlines the extent of their use today, studies their impact on university fundraising, and reviews [...]

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Today, higher education is a major force in promoting social mobility, yet colleges and universities seem more concerned with prestige than finding ways to make higher learning more accessible. Rewarding Strivers outlines [...]

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The National Commission on Social Security Reform—better known as the Greenspan Commission—is widely credited with tackling the financing crisis Social Security faced in the 1980s. The National Commission [...]

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In Spin Cycle, noted political scientist and education expert Jeffrey Henig explores how controversies over the charter school movement illustrate the use and misuse of research in policy debates. [...]

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In this passionate and persuasive book, Morton Halperin and Michael Fuchs argue that abandoning the promotion of democracy would be a great mistake. Patient efforts over the past three decades have laid [...]

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In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common [...]

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This is a story about what happens when a state education department partners with city school districts in an attempt to close the achievement gap between poor, minority city students and their [...]

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In Improving on No Child Left Behind, leading authorities assess the evidence around three central critiques of the act: that NCLB is underfunded; that the standards, testing, and accountability provisions are deeply [...]

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In this paper, Dobbins argues that “nation-building” is now firmly back on the national and international agendas, and that the experience of activities led by the United States in Afghanistan [...]

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Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. In Reforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate, [...]

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In Absolute Power, John P. MacKenzie looks at the origins and history of the unitary executive theory, examining its broad claims of presidential power in the light of the founders’ original [...]

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Curbing nuclear weapons has never been a more urgent priority for nations both great and small, but the global system of nuclear controls seems paralyzed. Have the instruments that once worked so [...]

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In this volume, experts, activists, and scholars report on the diverse actions, taken in the name of security, that will serve to undermine American liberties, and explain why the consequences of these [...]

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Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds [...]

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After more than half a century of withdrawal from international politics Japan is back. What are the implications for the rest of the world? [...]

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Since 1995, immigrants increasingly have bypassed the traditional gateway states—California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York, and New Jersey—in favor of new frontiers, and twenty-two other states have experienced extremely [...]

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Aging Gracefully gathers a collection of essays that highlight policy ideas for promoting greater retirement savings among Americans. [...]

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Stem Cells and Public Policy provides a concise, comprehensive overview of the implications of stem cell research for the development for public policy. [...]

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This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will [...]

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Apart at the Seams explores how this collapse of private sector retirement and health benefits came about and how it has affected the landscape of American social insurance. [...]

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Chasing the Sun addresses major policy problems of East Asia—from the management of our relations with China to the North Korean nuclear problem to the growth of East Asian regionalism. [...]

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Moving Up in the New Economy explores specific programs in different sectors of the economy—health care, child care, education, manufacturing, and biotechnology—to offer a comprehensive analysis of this [...]

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Inequality and Prosperity provides a comparative overview of the two major models of labor markets and welfare systems in the advanced industrial world: the "liberal capitalist" system of the United States and [...]

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The Century Foundation assembled the Post-2004 Election Working Group to find ways for states to implement future elections in a way that balances ballot integrity with voting rights and accessibility. This report [...]

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The USA Patriot Act One is of the most controversial and possibly one of the most misunderstood laws Congress has ever enacted. In Rethinking the Patriot Act, Stephen J. Schulhofer explains the [...]

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Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action assesses the nation's successes and failures on homeland security and calls for a stronger, more effective strategy for dealing with jihadists, including al Qaeda. [...]

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A series of policy changes in federal and state governments, and at universities, have made it exceedingly difficult for students from low-income and working-class families to earn college degrees. In America's [...]

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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of public funding for private religious schools, the debate over private school vouchers has intensified. At the same [...]

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Analyzing the historical context to assess the extent to which youth have participated in the political process throughout the twentieth century, Engaging Youth makes the case for more extensive educational programs, public [...]

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The United States and Turkey examines the changing relationship between Turkey and the United States, taking into account the continuing crisis in the Middle East and west Asia, the uncertainty over Cyprus, [...]

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Most of the education reform community has sought ways to make "separate but equal" schooling work better, but is this really the best course for our students? This report by The Century [...]

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As Congress and the White House move forward on reforming our tax system, policymakers are looking with increased scrutiny at the hundreds of tax expenditures that cost the United States as much [...]

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Led by former Presidents Ford and Carter, the National Commission on Federal Election Reform undertook a study of the American electoral system. The resulting report describes where and what went wrong during [...]

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The performance of the U.S. economy in the 1990s far outstripped expectations. Growth was surprisingly strong, unemployment fell to the lowest level in a generation, and yet inflation remained dormant. Why? [...]

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This provocative book asks a simple question: Since we know that middle class schools tend to work best, why not give every child in America the opportunity to attend a public school [...]

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This volume of essays seeks to restore the notion that public education should be an engine for social mobility, a concern that animated Brown v. Board of Education and the 1965 Elementary and [...]

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In this clearly written, provocative report, Eisner rejects the most alarmist views about the solvency of Social Security and provides a blueprint for keeping the system strong and fair. He makes the [...]

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The task force report presents an analysis of damages done by the short-term outlook of many U.S. corporations and provides recommendations for reform. [...]

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