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Hosted by Sharon Burke (Director of Resource Security at New America), Heat Map explores how local officials and organization leaders are navigating the fight against climate change. This episode discusses the relationship between local and global politics when it comes to managing the effects of our changing climate. Guests you will hear on this episode: Jonathan Pershing, Director of Environment...

Hosted by Sharon Burke (Director of Resource Security at New America), Heat Map explores how local officials and organization leaders are navigating the fight against climate change. This episode focuses on the Midwest region of the US and features an interview with Jesse Kharbanda. Jesse is the Executive Director of the Hoosier Environmental Council, an Indiana based environmental advocacy and ed...

2021 New America Fellow Adam Harris discusses his project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Brian Goldstone discusses his project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Caleb J. Gayle discusses his project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Cecilia Aldarondo discusses her project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Daniel Bergner discusses his project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Eve L. Ewing discusses her project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Jennifer Daskal discusses her project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Jonathan Blitzer discusses his project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Yi-Ling Liu discusses her project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

2021 New America Fellow Shaun Ossei-Owusu discusses his project and plans for the upcoming year with Awista Ayub, the director of New America's Fellows Program. Learn more at newamerica.org/fellows.

Following the 2010 census, 10 states lost congressional seats, and New York state stands to lose a Congressional seat as well as federal funding for vital services if significant sections of its population are undercounted again. To address the potential shift in the balance of power and discuss action steps for ensuring a fair count, New America NYC and NYU's McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy...

In a special reunion episode, Libby and Kevin return for an in-depth discussion of the series finale of The Americans while ignoring higher education altogether.

Myacah tapes up her webcam, Christian doesn’t. In some ways, this exemplifies two major attitudes among millennials regarding surveillance -- tin-foil hat paranoia and complete acceptance. How’d we get here? The PATRIOT Act made sweeping changes to civil liberties in response to 9/11 with near-unanimous support from Congress. How did some of parts of this legislation and the fervor around it shape...

Imagine a centralized database replete with your personal information that links together your and your family’s vital health, education, and social welfare records. Now imagine the database includes an entire country’s population. Fifty years ago this year, Denmark launched the world's first nationalized big data project. The country's Civil Personal Registration (CPR) system assigns every reside...

Christian and I were both raised by single mothers in the shadow of 90s welfare reform. When and why did the two-parent household become enshrined in American social policy? On our pilot episode, we sit down with Georgetown professor Dr. Marcia Chatelain to talk about about the history of social welfare policy in the United States. What starts as a policy driven discussion of major social policies...

There are no good guys in this story, including me. – Dan David, GeoInvesting After the 2008 financial collapse, U.S. investors began scouring global markets for new opportunities for high returns, and they turned to China to take part in its explosive economic growth. Looking beyond profits that seemed too good to be true, a band of rogue Wall Street outsiders uncovered a massive web of multibill...

Optimism is a moral choice. – Dr. Jim Yong Kim Thirty years ago, as much of the world was being ravaged by horrific diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, three young people, not yet out of medical school, set out to provide healthcare for Haiti's rural poor. They went on to spend the next three decades on the frontlines of health crises across the globe. Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia D...

In January 2013, on an early morning in Guatemala City, soldiers with automatic weapons are standing on street corners. A long line of Mayan women and men head into the high court, an institution historically dominated by the interests of a small white elite minority. Just three decades earlier, the ruling elite, with U.S. backing, engineered a coup that would topple a democratically elected gover...

Many American workers are unwell. They live with serious economic insecurity; succumb to diabetes, depression, and addiction at alarming rates; and struggle to balance the conflicting needs of their employers, their families, and their own well-being. That outlook won’t improve until we think of health as the driver of prosperity — not just the product of it. In the U.S., we spend extravagantly on...

The United States and China are in a race to build the world’s first quantum machine, and whoever crosses the finish line first will attain global dominance for generations to come. In The Quantum Spy, a new genre-bending thriller, New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius tells the fictional story of a hyper-fast quantum computer—the digital equivalent of a nu...

Today, almost half of the American workforce earns less than $15 per hour and a third of working-age men are either unemployed or unable to keep a family of four out of poverty. Few have sufficient savings to retire with, while businesses continue to push healthcare and other social safety costs onto their employees. Yet American companies are far from struggling. Is the contract between employee...

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. According to a new book by Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money, this absence of wealth isn't just a failure to atone for oppression imposed by slavery and Jim Crow — it's the product of contemporary act...

On Sunday, October 8th, join New America NYC for a private screening of Human Flow, a sweeping new film by world-renowned artist, activist, and icon Ai Weiwei, followed by a conversation with Richard Gere and David Miliband on the plight of refugees all over the world. More than 65 million people have been forcibly displaced due to war, persecution, climate change, and crushing poverty in the grea...