As a teenager, Tim Luna thought he’d end up working in his mother’s taco shop or doing odd jobs around his small town in rural Texas. His family and teachers urged him to aim higher. Luna took college ...

Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and ...

An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer (31 percent) see negative effects in their own communities New York, NY, ...

Cesiah Gonzalez had thought about joining the Marines, but in her sophomore year of high school in Albuquerque, she tried a paid internship as a medical assistant in a family health clinic. She ...

Political polarization has become a defining feature of American national politics. But is the same true for local government? A new survey, conducted by the nonprofit organization CivicPulse and ...

Dimitri Simes was born in 1947 in Moscow in the former Soviet Union and graduated from Moscow University. Though he served as an analyst of international affairs at the IMEMO institute, he decided to ...

Ana Navarro-Cárdenas was born in Nicaragua, and came to the United States with her mother and three siblings in 1980 to escape the country’s communist regime. Her father stayed behind to fight with ...

As a girl growing up in Damascus, Syria, Dina Katabi loved Star Wars and was fascinated by the notion of the “Force” — the invisible energy generated by all living things that can be used for good or ...

Since 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program has supported high-caliber scholarship and research in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting our ...

Television journalist Morley Safer began his American career at CBS as a correspondent during the Vietnam War. After making a name for himself for his willingness to report on controversial aspects of ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates a group of remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our nation and our democracy through ...