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Gaming the Future - Re-activating creativity and play in professional spaces
Remarkable failures of foresight make headlines all the time. The now-bankrupt Blockbuster could have purchased Netflix in 2000; policymakers missed...
How Will Climate Change Transform American Democracy?
If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In...
21st Century Proxy Warfare
From Libya to Syria and Ukraine to Yemen, proxy warfare is back with a vengeance. Yet today’s tightly networked world of mercenaries, militias,...
Your At-Home DNA Test Could Crack a Cold Case
The hit podcast Bear Brook detailed how genetic genealogy—the use of DNA testing in conjunction with family-tree mapping—helped identify the...
Get Ready for the Next Generation of Organic
Gary Hirshberg, co-founder of the world’s leading organic yogurt maker, Stonyfield Farms, shares his thoughts on the progress of the organic industry...
Project Confluence
It’s no secret that poor and disenfranchised people—including in the US—suffer disproportionately from environmental problems. At the global scale,...
How We Win - How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat
In her groundbreaking new book How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media...
Trump's Taliban Negotiations: What it Means for Afghanistan
On February 25th, the United States and the Taliban are scheduled to hold the next round of peace talks aimed at ending the now 17-year-old conflict,...
Grand Improvisation - America Confronts the British Superpower 1945-1957
Right after WWII, the Americans ran smack into an Anglo-Saxon colossus that had no intention of leaving the world stage. As the heart of an a historic...
Seventeen Years of Guantanamo
January 11, 2018, marks the 17th anniversary of the opening of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, which was established in the wake of the 9/11...
Hacking for Carbon: Building a New Innovation Pipeline for the New Carbon Economy
The energy transition is already creating new wealth with solar and wind power. The transition to a low-carbon economy will present an even bigger...
Leadership Voices: A Conversation about Leadership, Career Paths, Counterterrorism and National Security
The Leadership Voices series, a partnership between the McCain Institute for International Leadership and New America, features today’s icons and...