Podcasts
- podcast | October 02, 2014
The Weekly Wonk: A New Kind of Campus Diversity
New AmericaPromoting diversity in education was one the biggest and most widely practiced ideas of the 20th century. But as Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Pr... - podcast | September 25, 2014
The Weekly Wonk: Why Populism Isn't Going Away
New AmericaConventional wisdom and media narratives suggest that visible populist movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street emerged in response to t... -
The Weekly Wonk: A Different Kind of War Story
New AmericaWhy do veterans miss war? That's the question that has animated the latest work of Sebastian Junger, the best-selling author and filmmaker whose re... -
Fleeing War and Finding Family Podcast
In collaboration with Slate and Riverhead Books
New AmericaYears after Sarah Wildman’s grandparents had both passed away, Wildman found a cache of letters written to her grandfather in a file labeled “Corre... - podcast | September 15, 2014 | Future Tense
Techno Sapiens: The Tacocopter Edition
Welcome to Techno Sapiens, this is the final episode in a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior ed... -
The Teacher Wars
New AmericaWhy is teaching the most controversial profession in America? Historically, American public school teaching developed as an explicitly anti-intelle... - podcast | September 10, 2014
The Weekly Wonk: Our Exotic Poverty Problem
New AmericaWhy are some Americans choosing to fight malaria in Malawi over meth in Minnesota? In other words: why do we tend to romanticize development work a... -
The Business Of Banking Youth
New AmericaCan youth savings in the developing world be good social policy and make business sense for banks? New America Senior Policy Analyst Scarlett Aldeb... - podcast | September 02, 2014 | Future Tense
Techno Sapiens: The Automate Everything Edition
Welcome to Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis: A J... -
Just in Time Podcast
New AmericaFor white-collar workers, jobs that promise flexible hours may be highly sought after. But for workers who are just getting by, the very opposite i... -
Israel, Gaza and Monitoring Human Rights Podcast
New AmericaMonitoring human rights during wartime is a particularly daunting challenge, since the message and the messenger are often greeted by a hostile aud... -
The Next Economic Disaster Podcast
New AmericaFor all the talk of government spending and government-held debt, according to finance expert Richard Vague, the true threat to the economy is priv... - podcast | August 18, 2014 | Future Tense
Techno Sapiens: The End of Serendipity
Welcome to Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis: A J... - podcast | August 04, 2014 | Future Tense
Techno Sapiens: The Digital College Dropout Edition
Welcome to the third episode of Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of ... -
Recap: Rich Hill
New AmericaRich Hill, Missouri, a once thriving coal town home to 1,400 people, is mined out. Like hundreds of other small towns across America, Rich Hill has... -
Recap: Leftover Women
New AmericaAfter the 1949 revolution in China, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that women hold up half the sky. But since then, the sky has been turning dark... - podcast | July 21, 2014 | Future Tense
Techno Sapiens: The Quantify This Edition
Welcome to the second episode of Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of... - podcast | July 07, 2014 | Future Tense
Techno Sapiens: The Ghost in the Data Edition
Welcome to Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows, Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis: A ... -
Assets Podcast: Chasing the American Dream
Rachel Black with New America’s Asset Building Program talks with Mark Rank and Tom Hirschl about their new book, Chasing the American Dream. -
The Weekly Wonk: Our War with Teachers
New AmericaMost of us can easily remember our favorite teachers. Yet as a whole, American society devalues the profession – eroding the enthusiasm of educator... -
Assets Podcast: In Poverty, No Privacy?
Most Americans consider the right to privacy a right of citizenship, but for families within the public benefits system, ceding extensive personal ... -
The Weekly Wonk: Karzai's Dangerous Game
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is refusing to sign the U.S. peace agreement that outlines the terms of our 2014 withdrawal. What's he thinking – and...