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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Television journalist Lara Logan is currently a full-time correspondent on CBS' 60 Minutes, having previously served as the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. She was the only American ...

Eugene Huu-Phau Trinh is director of the Physical Sciences Research Division in the Biological and Physical Research Enterprise at NASA headquarters, a program aiming to enable the human exploration ...

Carlos Noriega served as an astronaut for NASA, involved in spaceflights to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station and to assemble the International Space Station. After earning a master's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Mazie Hirono immigrated to the United States when she was eight years old. After receiving her law degree from Georgetown University, she pursued a career in politics, becoming Hawaii’s deputy ...

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