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Data. It’s loved by some, feared by many, but there’s no arguing that it’s an essential tool in a leader’s toolkit. But how do we turn numbers into knowledge?

Immigrants who come to the U.S. are significantly less likely than U.S.-born individuals to have mental health problems, according to a new study published in Psychiatry Research.

State, local, and federal government programs have been incentivizing and payrolling upgraded school security in the nearly two years since the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

If you were really concerned about expenditures on entitlements, you would take people whose families have lived here for a very long time and weren’t being economically productive and you would deport them.

What is the Big Idea? A new study released on Tuesday shows that immigrants play a leading role in innovation and economic growth in the United States. “Patent Pending: How Immigrants […]

The United States is an immigrant society, but one that does not truly embrace immigration like other countries around the world. Many immigrants that arrive in America to create a better life are often times met with discrimination. 

n nThe people in the picture may look like doctors, but they’re actually two small business entrepreneurs from Queens making traditional Colombian flatbreads known as arepas. If you’ve ever spent […]

Immigration expert Lenni Benson says the notion that America once welcomed foreigners with open arms is a serious misconception. The ongoing debate over immigration has been a constant of the […]

Though the full economic impact will not be known for many fiscal years to come, new studies and anecdotal evidence indicate that immigrants are increasingly returning to their home countries […]

The framers of the Constitution were careful to use the word “persons” says Strossen.

Tilghman’s perspective on America involves the difference between group rights versus individual rights. She feels as though Canada allows group rights to trump individual rights, the opposite of America.

The New Jersey senator tells a classic immigrant story.

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we’re witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.

“No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before.”

Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.

Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.

Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.

The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?

If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.

A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.

Darling or degrading?

Wealthier in resources; poorer in time.

Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.

About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.

If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.

“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.

The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.

Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.

An interview with economist Tyler Cowen on why American progress has seemed to stall and how we can get it back on track.