New America (videos of April 2017)

source: New America
48:51 Unwarranted: A Conversation on Policing
Police play an indispensable role in our society. But the responsibility for keeping them accountable may lay with us, the people.
In June 2013, documents lea...
1:09:29 The Fuzzy and the Techie: Humanizing Technology to Address Our Gravest Problems The division between the fuzzy and the techie - those who studied humanities or social science, and those who studied computer science or other technical fields - has become a default division in t...
1:23:19 Breaking Up the Boys Club: A Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in National Security Over the past few decades, Americans have grown steadily more conscious of the fact that men and women don't interact with their societies in the same way. "Gender mainstreaming" is the concept tha...
1:46:42 America's Longest War, Against Cancer In 1971, Richard Nixon declared war on cancer. Five decades and billions of dollars later, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States. But promising advances in immunothe...
1:29:01 The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. It’s an elite that wor...
1:36:10 Have Internet Giants Taken Over Creative Culture? The beginning of the 21st century brought with it the emergence of three fledgling businesses that would soon redefine America’s notion of a decentralized internet. Over the last fifteen years, Fac...
1:38:48 Toxic Inequality: Race, Mobility, Wealth and Politics in Today’s America Race and economics have been tied together by public policy since America’s founding. Today African American and Latino families face a racial wealth divide that sees them owning just $11,000 and $...
1:09:13 The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State In the postwar years, there was a consensus that many of the duties the state owed to its citizens were largely independent of the choices those citizens had made: For example, if people were hungr...
1:22:51 Is Technology Enriching Language New America is dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age through big ideas, technological innovation, next gene...
1:26:30 The Future of Broadband Privacy and the Open Internet—Who Will Protect Consumers? Amid widespread public outcry, Congress took decisive and largely unprecedented action in recent weeks to undo privacy protections enacted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2016. L...
2:39:33 The Spawn of Frankenstein No work of literature has done more to shape the way people think about science and its moral consequences than Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. Today, almost two centuries after the nov...
35:11 Your Work May Be Killing You  New America is dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age through big ideas, technological innovation, next gene...
1:35:21 Building Blocks Towards Peace in Syria A successful resolution to the ongoing conflicts in Syria will require effective governance and security provisions. Yet existing governance and security structures on both the regime and rebel sid...
4:24 Building Blocks Towards Peace in Syria: Governance and Security New America is dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age through big ideas, technological innovation, next gene...
19:53 David Sterman on Whether the Travel Ban Really Protects American Security Within the first month of his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning travel to the United States from seven majority-Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, ...
1:25:06 Does the Travel Ban Really Protect American Security? Within the first month of his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning travel to the United States from seven majority-Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, ...
1:19:53 The Career Comeback From Work to Family and Back Again The "Mommy Track" needs a revamp.
As the gender pay gap closes and more women "lean in," the American dream is alive and well for men and women, so long as they fit one criteria: no children. Alth...
54:36 Extreme You Before she turned around a five billion-dollar sports drink business, Sarah Robb O'Hagan was fired twice. But now, with insights from a career full of dramatic successes and epic failures, she's re...
1:03:29 The Future of Digital Rights Is A Library Card New America is dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age through big ideas, technological innovation, next gene...
1:10:11 Is Technology Enriching Language? Join Future Tense for a conversation on how new and emerging technologies are changing the way we speak, write, and communicate. Will language be richer or poorer for it?