2017-06-30

New America (videos of May 2017)

source: New America
7:50:48 Driving Change, Securing Tenure Innovations in Land & Property Rights A new series of case studies authored by researchers at Princeton University’s Innovations for Successful Societies program profiles recent initiatives to strengthen tenure security and reform land...
1:47:34 Is This the America You Want? How to Harness Citizen Power Join Eric Liu, author of You're More Powerful than You Think in conversation with New America president and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter about how recent events have enabled citizens to make lasting ch...
1:29:54 A Climate for Conflict: Stories from Somalia Struggling with famine, drought, and violence, Somalia today is at a crossroads between a deepening crisis and a path to stability. Desperation is still driving people to crowded cities, refugee ca...
1:07:42 The Future of Us To renew America, we need new ideas about what it means to be American. Shifting demographics and new technologies will rewrite the code of society as we know it, from the ways we communicate to ho...
1:18:21 Anatomy of Terror: From Bin Laden’s Death to the Rise of the Islamic State In early 2011, the Arab Spring shook the Middle East, toppling governments in Tunisia and Egypt with Libya and Yemen soon to follow. From his hideout in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden shifted strategies...
1:37:36 Crypto Wars 2.0: The European Front The right to use strong encryption technology—like the encryption that secures your iPhone or protects your Whatsapp messages—isn’t only under political attack in the U.S. Governments in the U.K., ...
1:43:15 The U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself, While the Rest of Us Die Since the outset of the cold war, the US government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure and processes designed to ensure that the sitting president and other political and m...
59:42 Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom Winston Churchill and George Orwell were two of the most central figures of the twentieth century. Both came close to death in the 1930s: Orwell shot during the Spanish civil war, and Churchill str...
16:01 Civic Tech for Good To renew America, we need new ideas to bring citizens into their democracy. Change only happens when ordinary people get involved. Now, more than ever, governments need technologists to help them b...
33:45 A Hard Pill to Swallow: Bridging the Health Care Divide DR. ATUL GAWANDE Surgeon, Brigham and Women
AVIK ROY Co-Founder and President, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
The New America Annual Conference is a day-long conference bringing toge...
54:05 We the People: Populism vs Pluralism Instead of the “us versus them” populism of left and right that has been on the rise, we should focus on a different kind of populism: “us” populism, where citizens work together, from local to nat...
1:23:16 Past Performance, Future Potential: A Look Back and Ahead at Economics, Racial, and Social Justice To renew America, we need new ideas on how we can restore freedom and justice to all Americans. Join us for four conversations where the discussion of economic, race, and social justice are or aren...
10:03 Closing Remarks ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER President and CEO, New America
The New America Annual Conference is a day-long conference bringing together New America’s network of fellows, thinkers, writers, researchers, t...
54:16 In Conversation: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Anne Marie Slaughter CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Author, Americanah
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER President, New America
The New America Annual Conference is a day-long conference bringing together New America’s network of fellow...
29:30 Renew America ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER President and CEO, New America
The New America Annual Conference is a day-long conference bringing together New America’s network of fellows, thinkers, writers, researchers, t...
1:54:23 A New Era for Immigration: State and Local Governments at the Forefront of Policy Trump’s first 100 days in office have set in motion a new era for immigration policy. From threatening to withhold funds from Sanctuary Cities and circulating lists of jurisdictions that do not com...
2:13:24 Ethical Use of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education Colleges are under increasing pressure to retain their students. The public and policymakers are demanding that those who enter college—especially students from underrepresented groups—earn a degre...
2:34:04 Varying Degrees: How America Perceives Higher Education Most college graduates will end up eventually earning more than their parents even accounting for student loans. But many students leave school before obtaining their degree. In our new post-recess...
1:27:21 Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of Israel’s War in Lebanon In the late 1990s amidst Israel’s continuing war in Lebanon, soldiers fought and died on a small hilltop known as the Pumpkin. The casualties in military lingo were known as flowers. In his new boo...
1:24:59 The Fight for Net Neutrality Begins Again On April 26, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced a proposal to begin dismantling the Open Internet Order. The Order, adopted by the FCC in 2015 after robust public input b...
1:31:29 Bringing Hostages Home: Developing Effective American Strategy Since 2001, terrorist and militant groups have taken almost 1,200 Westerners hostage abroad, with 90 being murdered. American hostages have been killed at disproportionate rates - accounting for ne...
1:23:03 Journalism in Hostile Environments: Perspectives from the Field The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) and the International Reporting Project (IRP) are pleased to present a panel discussion with the honorees of the 2017 James Foley Freedom Awards, h...

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