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Three experts discuss how science and technology are impacting Israel’s economy and security. This session will examine recent breakthroughs in quantum science in a way that is understandable to those without a background in the topic. In what ways are these recent discoveries promising, and what are the challenges that lie ahead? How powerful of an impact could they have...
In a rare interview, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency weighs in on the global security scene and explains the current risks to the United States. John Brennan is interviewed by Dina Temple-Raston, counterterrorism correspondent for NPR, at the Aspen Security Forum.
Out on bail after a conviction for “cyber libel” by the Philippines government, journalist and freedom of the press crusader Maria Ressa checks in with NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro. How does Ressa feel in this moment, facing years in prison? Is she hopeful for her appeal with famed human rights attorney Amal Clooney fighting on her behalf? What are the origins of President Du...
This episode features “big ideas” from festivals as far back as 2007.
What is the Trump doctrine on foreign policy?
The world faces many challenges—from climate change to political instability to widening inequality—that transcend borders and impact us all. If today’s young people are to be equipped with the imagination and skillsets to tackle these growing threats, educational excellence is key. How do we build successful education systems at scale and in every community? And what expe...
Since the dawn of the Olympics, sports have been a contest of global powers. Today, how are sports used as a means of conducting foreign policy — for better and for worse?
For 60 years, the US government has been laying secret doomsday plans in the event of a nuclear war.
How far have we come toward racial equality since the civil rights era? What would Dr. King think?
US-Russian relations have reached one of their lowest points since the end of the Cold War. Michael McFaul, former ambassador to Russia and author of such books as Russia’s Unfinished Revolution, will shed light on the tenuous relationship between Moscow and Washington. As Russia and the US face off over Ukraine, can they continue to cooperate on Syria and Iran?
The crises continue to mount: Euroskepticism; crippling debt and high unemployment, ascendant nationalism and failures in integration, and homegrown terrorism—all compounded by the largest human migration on the continent since World War II. Headlines that sounded Europe’s dissolution just a few years ago seem only slightly hyperbolic today, on the heels of the Brexit refe...
More people have been forced to flee their homes by conflict and crisis than at any time since World War II, leaving an unprecedented 65 million people displaced. What does David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, believe can be done to help? As the son of refugees and a former foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, he brings a personal commitment and...
Benjamin Rhodes and Jeffrey Goldberg discuss the worldview of President Obama.
President Obama told incoming President Trump that North Korea would likely be the toughest item on his to-do list, and through the first 500 days of the administration, the prediction has proved correct. Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program has made regional allies, like South Korea and Japan, nervous, and heightened nuclear fears in the United States for the first time since th...
John R. Lewis reflects on his lifelong dedication for civil rights.
Does the world need an updated global operating system?
Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and since then, the war has proven longer and costlier than what the Kremlin might have expected. Ukrainian resistance has been successful in its counteroffensives, pushing back Russian forces from their original goal of taking Kyiv, though much of the country has still been devastated by the fighting. How much long...
This session will inhabit a number of angles to examine the Syrian Civil War, a conflict that’s left one in ten Syrians wounded or killed since 2011. How did the tragedy build to its current point, and what were the global community’s greatest missteps? What factors and interests are at play in this volatile and bloody war? Who is most effectively helping the affected mill...
How do we save ourselves from repeating errors of our past?