Muckraking: 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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