Ten Across Conversations

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida revealed the climate change vulnerabilities of the U.S. Gulf Coast and Northeast regions with communities destroyed, commerce halted, and energy systems disrupted. It also provided a sobering view into what the future will look like with a rapidly warming climate. In this episode, Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks to Baton Rouge Area Foundation President...

In the arid and drought ridden American southwest, the future of water is here. Ten Across Founder Duke Reiter talks to water policy experts, Felicia Marcus and Kathryn Sorensen, each of whom represents two of the most drought impacted states in the U.S., California and Arizona respectively. The images of a shrinking Colorado River have been widely distributed and climate change identified as the...

Well-constructed survey data tells us a lot about how people in our communities truly feel about critical issues. What is also revealed is the disconnect between those perspectives and the orientation of elected representatives, especially at the state level. Why do people think differently than they vote? How can a divided electorate come together on issues they agree on like education, immigrati...

Southern and rural parts of the U.S. are often overlooked in the national media, giving a limited view of some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation today. Ten Across Founder Duke Reiter talks to veteran journalists James and Deborah Fallows, who have recently traveled the country reporting from America’s small towns to explore the nation’s growing fragmentation and how we can look bey...

As a monumental infrastructure bill makes its way through Congress, state and local governments are preparing to bring America’s infrastructure into the future. The Ten Across geography has been manipulated by massive infrastructure projects to transform challenging environments into the fastest growing areas of the country. Is this a viable strategy for the future? Duke Reiter talks to Henry Cisn...