An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer ...

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 ...

Polarization in America: Survey of Local Government is the first in a three-part series of surveys aimed at understanding the impact of polarization, identifying solutions, and strengthening ...

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 ...

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 ...

Melikset Khachiyan, born in the former Soviet Union in 1970, began playing chess at the age of eight. At 10 years old he won the Baku Junior Championship and two years later became a Soviet Candidate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. After a ...