The Weekly Wonk: Contemporary Education & Journalism’s Dangers
We live in an ever-shifting world, where industries are rushing to meet modern expectations and the demands placed upon the global workforce are changing daily. In this week’s podcast, former Indiana...
View ArticleNew America NYC: A Democracy with a "Partly Free" Media
In 2013 Freedom House, while acknowledging that the Israeli media was the freest in the Middle East, downgraded its ranking from "free" to "partly free." In its report, the NGO cited several factors...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: The North Korean Playbook
For the first time in years, American diplomats seem optimistic about the future of Iran-U.S. relations. Could our progress there help us deal with North Korea? Suzanne DiMaggio, the director of the...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: War War Everywhere & Inequality By the Numbers
For the next few weeks, we're bringing you edited versions of the best conversations from our annual 10 Big Ideas Conference. First up: CNN Crossfire Host Van Jones, with some help from our audience,...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Has the Financial Literacy Movement Been Failing American...
Wall Street executives and politicians from both parties have argued that Americans’ lack of financial literacy was a major cause of the Great Recession. In response, both public and private financial...
View ArticleNew America NYC: A True Story of Murder and Mercy in Texas
Imagine that a terrorist tried to kill you. If you could face him again, on your terms, what would you do?Raisuddin Bhuiyan is a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreamed of immigrating to America and...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: The Second Machine Age & A Dangerous Measurement
For the next few weeks, we’re bringing you edited versions of the best conversations from our annual 10 Big Ideas Conference. This week,you'll hear first from Andrew McAfee, co-author of The Second...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Rebel Music
Amidst political and cultural turmoil in the urban periphery from France to Brazil, Muslim youth, in particular those of African-descent, have looked to the Black Freedom Movement, to the words of...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Fueling Dominance & The Case for Leisure
This is the final podcast in a series of the best conversations from our annual 10 Big Ideas Conference. First, a discussion about the geopolitics of energy with New America Future Tense Fellow Steve...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Leadership, Innovation and Ideas Series Featuring Ta-Nehisi...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor of The Atlantic, joins New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter in the fifth installment of our Leadership, Innovation and Ideas series to discuss racism,...
View ArticleAssets Podcast: Chasing the American Dream
Rachel Black with New America’s Asset Building Program talks with Mark Rank and Tom Hirschl about their new book, Chasing the American Dream.
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: How Soccer Has Changed the World
This week - why soccer means more than goals, how the sport has changed racial politics throughout the world and how FIFA's confused - and sometimes corrupt – politics could threaten the sport's...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Reparations Revisited & That Precious Power
This week, Atlantic correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates extends the conversation he started with his June cover story, The Case for Reparations. Later, what history can tell us about modern warfare: New...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Documented A Film By An Undocumented American
Jose Antonio Vargas immigrated to the US from the Philippines at the age of twelve when his mother sent him to live with his grandparents in Northern California. After graduating from San Francisco...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The New Civil Rights Agenda
In collaboration with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational FundStop-and-Frisk. Voter ID laws. Jim Crow Redux. Reparations.2014 has more similarities to 1964 than we care to admit. We can't forge...
View ArticleNew America NYC: The Director
David Ignatius is as well known a novelist as he is a journalist with decades of experience covering foreign affairs and national security issues. And his newest novel, the American spy thriller The...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: The Iraqi Triage
First, a special summer encore edition of the Weekly Wonk: Brigid Schulte makes the case for working less. Later, a conversation about the situation in Iraq – is it an imminent disaster that calls for...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: The Next Global Revolution
We're at the beginning of a new global battle – a race to reinvent government and make it better. That's what The Economist Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait and his co-author Adrian Woolridge argue in...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: All the Leftover Ladies
To be single and 27+ in China is to be declared "leftover." On this episode, Leta Hong-Fincher, the author of "Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China," discusses a destructive new...
View ArticleNew 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...
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