New America NYC: The Future of Getting Lost
In this era of near constant tracking and data gathering by cellphones, sensors, CCTV cameras, or even social media, it feels as if anyone, anywhere, should be easily findable at any moment. But as...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Ethical Eating
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of organic and locally sourced food, prompting a widespread farm-to-table philosophy on how we grow, buy, and eat our meals each day. But...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The Internet's Own Boy
The Internet’s Own Boy follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Betting on Women Leaders
Can we break the glass ceiling with dollars bills? On this episode, former Bank of America and Citigroup executive Sallie Krawcheck explains how she hopes a new index fund – offered by her...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Leftover Women
Leta Hong Fincher’s Leftover Women argues that, contrary to many media claims, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights relative to men. Has China’s booming economy left women...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Advantage: USA
Eric Liu tells us the U.S. still has the power to keep a competitive edge: Find out what that is, and what we can learn about America's future from the Liu family immigration story. He's the author of...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Rich Hill
Rich Hill, Missouri, a once thriving coal town home to 1,400 people, is mined out. Like hundreds of other small towns across America, Rich Hill has experienced great losses in its industry, population,...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: How Good Is Your Networking Game?
Are you really as connected as you think you are? New America Fellow Eric Tyler tells us that you might not be -- that's right, even with your hundreds of Facebook contacts. But don't fret. Tyler's big...
View ArticleAssets Podcast: The Business of Banking Youth
Can youth savings in the developing world be good social policy and make business sense for banks? New America Senior Policy Analyst Scarlett Aldebot-Green and guest, Tanaya Kilara, a Financial Sector...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Silenced
Only eleven Americans have ever been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for revealing secret government information to the public, eight of them under the Obama administration. In an era where the...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Hot Child in the City
Storytelling is an art that brings us together, reminding us of the common threads of our humanity through recognition of shared experience. To celebrate the art of storytelling, New America NYC has...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: We Interrupt This Broadcast
No, you're not imagining things: news media today is dominated by white male voices. Lauren Bohn wants to change that. The co-founder of the startup Foreign Policy Interrupted explains what we lose...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The Next Economic Disaster
For all the talk of government spending and government-held debt, according to finance expert Richard Vague, the true threat to the economy is privately-held debt. The Great Depression of the 1930s,...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Our War with Teachers
Most of us can easily remember our favorite teachers. Yet as a whole, American society devalues the profession – eroding the enthusiasm of educators with debates over teacher pay, tenure and testing....
View ArticleNew America NYC: Israel, Gaza and Monitoring Human Rights During Wartime
Monitoring human rights during wartime is a particularly daunting challenge, since the message and the messenger are often greeted by a hostile audience.B’tselem, Israel’s leading human rights...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Our Exotic Poverty Problem
Why are some Americans choosing to fight malaria in Malawi over meth in Minnesota? In other words: why do we tend to romanticize development work abroad while neglecting problems down the street? On...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The Teacher Wars
Why is teaching the most controversial profession in America? Historically, American public school teaching developed as an explicitly anti-intellectual, working class job. Yet at the same time that...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Just in Time
For white-collar workers, jobs that promise flexible hours may be highly sought after. But for workers who are just getting by, the very opposite is often the case. In the restaurant and retail...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: A Different Kind of War Story
Why do veterans miss war? That's the question that has animated the latest work of Sebastian Junger, the best-selling author and filmmaker whose recent film, Korengal, picks up where his Academy...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The Chinese American Dream
China’s growing dominance as a world power raises a litany of questions for Chinese Americans. The Chinese American experience is one of marked achievement, but also of challenges with privatization...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Why Populism Isn't Going Away
Conventional wisdom and media narratives suggest that visible populist movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street emerged in response to the financial crisis of 2008. New America Fellow Yascha...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Fleeing War And Finding Family
Years after Sarah Wildman’s grandparents had both passed away, Wildman found a cache of letters written to her grandfather in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A-G.” What she found weren’t dry...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: A New Kind Of Campus "Diversity"
Promoting diversity in education was one the biggest and most widely practiced ideas of the 20th century. But as Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Feminism at a Crossroad
Feminism is currently having a cultural moment. It is part of mainstream culture in a way that has not been seen before the popular influence of Sheryl Sandberg and Beyonce, to name a couple. Online,...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Poverty Is A Majority Issue
“The poor” aren’t other people – they’re us. According to recent scholarship, by the time we’re 75 years old, 59 percent of us will fall below the poverty line at some point in our lives. Factoring in...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: How A Sex Scandal Changed Democracy
One week of presidential politics in the spring of 1987 changed political journalism forever and not for the better. So says noted political writer (and alumnus of three presidential campaign trails)...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Leadership, Innovation and Ideas Series Featuring Fred and...
Venture capitalists Fred and Joanne Wilson join New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter in the sixth installment of our Leadership, Innovation and Ideas series. They discuss companies Fred...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The E-Team: A Social Cinema Screening
Directed by Academy Award® Winner Ross Kauffman and Emmy Award® Nominee Katy Chevigny, E-TEAM follows the high-stakes work of four fiercely intrepid human rights investigators who are the first on the...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: History Is Happening Now
In this episode, Slaughter talks with historian Khalil Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, about why the story of police violence...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The Pill
Oral Contraception and the Future of Reproductive Rights : A Broadly Speaking Event in collaboration with the Global Gender Parity InitiativeNearly fifty years after Margaret Sanger’s death, the safe...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Will Amazon Lead Us to the Golden Age of Books?
We've been saying that Amazon has revolutionized books ever since the company first enabled us to order a book late at night in our pj's ... and at a discount. But Amazon's impact is increasingly being...
View ArticleNew America NYC: When Girls Live as Boys
Instead of wearing a headscarf and dress, it's not uncommon for an Afghan girl to get a short haircut and a pair of pants, and to be sent off into the world to look and behave like one of the boys. For...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Journalism's New Deep End
How should we fill the information gap on Ebola and the Syrian Civil War, which the mainstream media addresses only when there's a new patient or attack? According to News Deeply founder and CEO Lara...
View ArticleNew America NYC: @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
The future of American warfare is already here. From government agencies joining with tech giants like Google and Facebook to collect vast amounts of user data, to the use of hacker teams as part of...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Hacking Diversity in Tech and Beyond
The tech industry now admits it has a woman problem. On this week’s episode, fresh ideas for how to address that issue across the tech sector – and other male-dominated industries, too. Liza Mundy,...
View ArticleNew America NYC: A New Israeli Media
Journalism in Israel has a long legacy, with veteran media outlets covering every aspect of Israeli political and cultural life—everything from music and film stories, domestic social welfare issues,...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Myanmar: The Fight for Free Expression
As government crackdown on the media continues in Myanmar, the newly-formed PEN Myanmar is part of a growing movement of young civil society organizations mobilizing to defend fragile, hard-won...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: The Hackers of Oz
How do we win a war that can’t be seen? Anne-Marie Slaughter goes behind the cyber curtain to find out by speaking with ASU Future of War Fellow Shane Harris about his new book, @War: The Rise of the...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Lessons In Dissent
Scenes of thousands of protesters filling the streets in the heart of Hong Kong, one of the world’s great business capitals, have captured international media attention in recent weeks. Young...
View ArticleRed Army
Gabe Polsky, son of Soviet immigrants, grew up in the United States playing hockey and hearing about the glory days of the invincible Soviet Red Army team. The Soviet Union’s best propaganda for the...
View ArticleGetting Older: How We're Coping with Working and Living Longer
Around the mid-twentieth century, thanks to Social Security and the spread of company pensions programs, the idea that working life should end in a period of dignified retirement began to take hold in...
View ArticleMuckraking: The New Old Human Rights Campaign
What can the history of investigative journalism – or global muckraking, as Columbia professor Anya Schiffrin calls it – teach us about the future of human rights? More than anyone might think, as...
View ArticleThe Responsive City
In collaboration with the Program on Profits and Purpose at New America “In God we trust,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to say, “everyone else bring data.” How can emerging technologies and data...
View ArticleLeadership, Innovation and Ideas Series Featuring Samantha Power
Join New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter as she finds out from US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power what it really takes to keep the peace and other top issues in international security.
View ArticleCommunities Before Categories
We all know that increasingly, Hispanic Americans are at the forefront of national conversations about politics, and not just in the context of the electoral landscape or immigration debates....
View ArticleCurbing Corruption
The recent midterm elections cost $3.6 billion thanks to dark money groups and some key decisions by the Supreme Court to redefine “citizen” and “corruption.” This daunting figure leaves little doubt...
View ArticleJerusalem: Flashpoint For Regional And Global Conflict
In recent months, there have been near-daily reports of political violence in Jerusalem, the world's most hotly contested city. It is the 'volcanic core' of the Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab...
View ArticleEvolution or Extinction? The Future of Gender
A Broadly Speaking event in collaboration with the Global Gender Parity Initiative As our definitions of masculinity and femininity shift, gender is no longer as strong a factor in pre-determining the...
View ArticleSecuring Peace in an Age of Genocide
How do we prevent atrocities like those in Bosnia and Rwanda from happening again? Over the course of her career, Samantha Power - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
View ArticleThe Rise of Extreme Daycare
As wealth inequality in America reaches new heights and wage growth for the middle and lower classes remains stagnant, more and more Americans are being forced to work late-night and early-morning...
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