Podcasts
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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... - podcast | December 04, 2014
Muckraking: The New Old Human Rights Campaign
New AmericaWhat can the history of investigative journalism – or global muckraking, as Columbia professor Anya Schiffrin calls it – teach us about the future ... -
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... - podcast | November 20, 2014
The Hackers of Oz
New AmericaHow do we win a war that can’t be seen? Anne-Marie Slaughter goes behind the cyber curtain to find out by speaking with ASU Future of War Fellow Sh... -
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... -
The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex Podcast
In collaboration with Future Tense
New AmericaThe future of American warfare is already here. From government agencies joining with tech giants like Google and Facebook to collect vast amounts ... - podcast | November 06, 2014
Hacking Diversity in Tech and Beyond
New AmericaThe tech industry now admits it has a woman problem. On this week’s episode, fresh ideas for how to address that issue across the tech sector – and... - podcast | November 06, 2014
Journalism’s New Deep End
New AmericaHow should we fill the information gap on Ebola and the Syrian Civil War, which the mainstream media addresses only when there's a new patient or a... -
When Girls Live as Boys Podcast
A Broadly Speaking Event in collaboration with the Global Gender Parity Initiative
New AmericaInstead of wearing a headscarf and dress, it's not uncommon for an Afghan girl to get a short haircut and a pair of pants, and to be sent off into ... - podcast | October 30, 2014
Can We Save Good Local Journalism?
New AmericaIt’s possible, says Perry Bacon, Jr., who believes that only local journalism can sustain democracy where it is most active these days—at the state... -
Will Amazon Lead Us to the Golden Age of Books
In collaboration with Future Tense
New AmericaWe've been saying that Amazon has revolutionized books ever since the company first enabled us to order a book late at night in our pj's ... and at... -
The E-Team Podcast
In collaboration with the Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
New AmericaDirected by Academy Award® Winner Ross Kauffman and Emmy Award® Nominee Katy Chevigny, E-TEAM follows the high-stakes work of four fiercely intrepi... - podcast | October 23, 2014
The Weekly Wonk: History Is Happening Now
New AmericaIn this episode, Slaughter talks with historian Khalil Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Pub... -
The Pill Podcast: Oral Contraception and the Future of Reproductive Rights
A Broadly Speaking Event in collaboration with the Global Gender Parity Initiative
New AmericaNearly fifty years after Margaret Sanger’s death, the safe and effective birth control pill she fought for has transformed the lives of women world... - podcast | October 16, 2014
The Weekly Wonk: How A Sex Scandal Changed Democracy
New AmericaOne week of presidential politics in the spring of 1987 changed political journalism forever and not for the better. So says noted political writer... - podcast | October 09, 2014
The Weekly Wonk: We're All in the Poverty Fight
New America“The poor” aren’t other people – they’re us. According to recent scholarship, by the time we’re 75 years old, 59 percent of us will fall below the ... -
Leadership, Innovation and Ideas Series Featuring Fred and Joanne Wilson
New AmericaVenture capitalists Fred and Joanne Wilson join New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter in the sixth installment of our Leadership, Inno... -
Feminism at a Crossroad Podcast
A Broadly Speaking event in collaboration with The New Republic
New AmericaFeminism is currently having a cultural moment. It is part of mainstream culture in a way that has not been seen before the popular influence of Sh...