Podcasts
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The Powerhouse Podcast
New AmericaFor all the global obsession with oil that has marked the past decades, the real future of energy might be something quite different. An advanced l... -
1971 Podcast
New AmericaDecades before the world knew the names of Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, there was the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. During the ... -
88 Days to Kandahar Podcast
New AmericaWhen President George W. Bush approved the first American-Afghan war, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad from 1999-2002, found hims... -
A Path Appears Podcast
A Social Cinema Screening in collaboration with the Profits & Purpose Program
New America"Hope is like a path in the countryside," wrote Chinese essayist Lu Xun. "Originally there is nothing. But as people walk this way again and again,... -
The Great Race Podcast
The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
New AmericaThe world's greatest manufacturing juggernaut -- the $2 trillion automotive industry -- is in the throes of a revolution. Its future will include c... -
How Technology is Changing the Family Tree Podcast
In collaboration with Future Tense
New AmericaAmericans are obsessed with tracing their family trees. Enabled by the Internet and advances in genetic technology, millions of people are diving d... -
Measuring Up Podcast
Has Standardized Testing Paid Off?
New AmericaYour child is more than a score. But in the era of No Child Left Behind and the Common Core, many are accusing America's public education system of... -
Merchants of Doubt Podcast
New AmericaInspired by the acclaimed book by Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt is a satiric yet serious examination into the... -
The Fierce Urgency of Now Podcast
New AmericaThe Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts; the War on Poverty; Medicare and Medicaid; the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities – these ... -
The Rise of Extreme Daycare Podcast
New AmericaAs wealth inequality in America reaches new heights and wage growth for the middle and lower classes remains stagnant, more and more Americans are ... -
Securing Peace in an Age of Genocide
New AmericaHow do we prevent atrocities like those in Bosnia and Rwanda from happening again? Over the course of her career, Samantha Power - U.S. Ambassador ... -
Jerusalem: Flashpoint for Regional & Global Conflict Podcast
New AmericaIn recent months, there have been near-daily reports of political violence in Jerusalem, the world's most hotly contested city. It is the 'volcanic... -
Curbing Corruption Podcast
New AmericaThe recent midterm elections cost $3.6 billion thanks to dark money groups and some key decisions by the Supreme Court to redefine “citizen” and “c... -
Evolution or Extinction? The Future of Gender Podcast
New AmericaAs our definitions of masculinity and femininity shift, gender is no longer as strong a factor in pre-determining the structures of our lives, fami... -
Video: The Responsive City: In collaboration with the Program on Profits and Purpose at New America
New America“In God we trust,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to say, “everyone else bring data.” How can emerging technologies and data analytics improve life i... -
Freedom Summer and Ferguson Recap
New AmericaIn the summer of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Martin Luther King, civil rights activists and more than 700 mostly white col... -
Innovation, Leadership and Ideas: Anne-Marie Slaughter in conversation with Ambassador Samantha Power
New AmericaJoin New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter as she finds out from US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power what it really takes to keep the peace and o... -
Getting Older: How We're Coping with Working and Living Longer Podcast
New AmericaAround the mid-twentieth century, thanks to Social Security and the spread of company pensions programs, the idea that working life should end in a... -
Red Army Podcast
New AmericaGabe Polsky, son of Soviet immigrants, grew up in the United States playing hockey and hearing about the glory days of the invincible Soviet Red Ar... -
Lessons in Dissent Podcast
In collaboration with ChinaFile
New Americacenes of thousands of protesters filling the streets in the heart of Hong Kong, one of the world’s great business capitals, have captured internati... -
Myanmar: The Fight for Free Expression Podcast
In collaboration with PEN America
New AmericaAs government crackdown on the media continues in Myanmar, the newly-formed PEN Myanmar is part of a growing movement of young civil society organi... -
A New Israeli Media Podcast
The impact of new digital magazines
New AmericaJournalism in Israel has a long legacy, with veteran media outlets covering every aspect of Israeli political and cultural life—everything from mus...