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South Asia: The View from India
Please join the New America Foundation for an invite-only, on-the-record roundtable with the the former Foreign Secretary of India, Amb. Shyam Saran....
The Civil War and Its Aftermath
The closing discussion from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society's 2012 Civil War Symposium. Several of the symposium's presenters take questions from...
Steve Coll discusses his book "Private Empire"
New America Foundation President Steve Coll and Nicholas Thompson, Future Tense fellow and Editor of NewYorker.com, discuss Coll's book "Private...
Self-Critical Public Science: How to Integrate Creativity and Responsibility
Basic science is rapidly becoming an endangered species. Nowadays, publicly funded scientists cannot easily separate it from applied science, let...
Feeding the World While the Earth Cooks
When today's toddlers are parents themselves, they will face an agricultural crisis. The world population will reach 9 billion. A growing global...
Immigration and the 2012 Elections
Panelists talked about American identity, immigration, race relations, and the effect on politics. They also responded to questions from members of...
Defining Resilience
The ability to bounce back, to absorb shocks, to persevere, to retain functionality over time, to endure, to adapt, to succeed, to survive, to...
Tinkering With Tomorrow: Will the DIY Movement Craft the Future?
New technologies are making it easier than ever to turn an idea into a reality. 3D printers, open-source software, hackable products, and...
Competition within government-sponsored R&D: An effective tool for innovation or a recipe for waste and duplication?
Is competition between and within government R&D agencies a force for innovation and for achieving desired outcomes? Or does competition lead to...
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
A conversation with Rebecca MacKinnon to celebrate the release of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. This video...
Climate of Uncertainty: Civil Scenarios for Decision Making
Wicked problems like climate change stress both our ordinary sense-making capacities and our most sophisticated policy tools. While there is...
Creative Nonfiction/Narrative: Forging a Working Bond between Next Generation Science Communicators and Next Generation Science Policy Scholars
Communicating science to the general public is difficult. But communicating science policy creates even more complexity and challenge for many reasons...