Highlights
Alan F. Westin, Carnegie Corporation-funded scholar of privacy in the information age, dies at 83
Alan F. Westin, one of the first and most widely respected scholars to explore the dilemmas of privacy in the information age, died Feb. 18 at a hospice in Saddle River,... Learn More
WNYC-Grantmakers Play an Important Role in Comprehensive Immigration Reform Efforts
Laughter and jokes belie the serious planning that’s taking place on the eighth floor of a building in midtown Manhattan. Five staffers of United We Dream are tackling... Learn More
“Downton and Downward” - Social Mobility in the US and UK
Timothy Egan’s Opinionator article “Downton and Downward” in the February 14 edition of the New York Times challenges America’s core, motivational narrative—that anyone... Learn More
Democracy: Report-Promising New Americans Being Priced Out of U.S. Citizenship
Advocates launch “Becoming Americans” campaign calling on Congress, U.S.C.I.S. to support legal “Green Card” holder immigrants pursuing dream of American... Learn More
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Geri Mannion, Program Director, U.S. Democracy
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Challenges to Voting Rights Act
What’s at Stake. Plus, more from Corporation Grantees. Read more
Featured Publications
Carnegie Results
Beyond Boundaries: A Promising New Model for Security and Global Development
In 2007, a team of international security experts and researchers at the Henry L. Stimson Center launched an initiative to build an effective model for sustainable nonproliferation of biological,... Download | Read more
Grantee Publication
Nurturing Naturalization. Could Lowering the Fee Help?
The report indicates that the $680 naturalization fee has become a major barrier to applying for U.S. citizenship for legal immigrants in low-wage jobs, a group that overwhelmingly desires to become... Read more
Grantee Publication
The US and the Gulf States: Uncertain Partners in a Changing Region
The relationship between the U.S. and the Persian Gulf states as they face democratic transitions in the Arab world as well as security challenges in the Gulf, is addressed in a new issue brief... Read more