New 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...
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