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All Rights Reserved Security & Global Affairs Aspen Security Forum 2020 BY Aspen Strategy Group Join us as we explore the most pressing foreign policy and national security issues of the day facing the United States and its allies. Events AUG 07 Leadership Connected Learning Seminar: Unintended Consequences AUG 09 Climate Change FLCS 2020 AUG 11 Around the Institute Citizen Leadership Awards Program View All Events Society Ensuring an Inclusive Census with the Power of Faith Leaders Strong networks and relationships are inherent in many faith communities, where leaders are seen as trustworthy sources of information. BY Abigale Haug Blog Post 07.16.2020 Technology How to Fix the Safety Net, According to Tech The most important ingredient is a relentless focus on the people using the services. BY Justin King & 3 more Blog Post 07.08.2020 Native American Issues On the Far End of the Trail of Tears Was a Promise The Supreme Court held that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s Indian Reservation was never disestablished. BY Center for Native American Youth Blog Post 07.20.2020 Economic Development The Ocean Is the Key to Economic Recovery Prior to the pandemic, the multitrillion global ocean economy was growing faster in the US than our national economy as a whole. BY Rear Admiral Jonathan W. White (USN ret.), & 1 more Blog Post 06.30.2020 Racial Equity 10 Movements and Moments to Help You Confront Systemic Racism To be literate in American identity and ideals you must understand the various forms of racial injustice in this country. BY Seth Henderson & 1 more Blog Post 07.02.2020 We drive change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time. Find out more News, Ideas, & Past Events Leadership Beirut by Jeanette LeBlanc Saturday, August 8 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you. BY Brianna Curran Blog Post 21 hours ago Family Finances COVID-19 Eviction Crisis: 30-40 Million Americans at Risk As part of its ongoing work on housing security and tracking how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting US households’ financial security, the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, along with colleagues at 8 additional institutes and organizations, released new research finding that 30-40 million people in America are at risk of losing their homes in the next several months without swift and significant federal intervention. BY Emily Benfer & 9 more Blog Post 1 day ago Urban Innovation How to Fail (Forward) This expert panel of city leaders, technologists, and innovators discuss why it is usually so hard to learn from failure in government and what governments and their allies can do about it. BY Center for Urban Innovation Video 1 day ago Leadership The Gift By Li-Young Lee Friday, August 7 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you. BY Todd Breyfogle Blog Post 1 day ago Arts Media and the Arts: The Metropolitan Opera in the Digital Space This SOF Digital Discussion featuring Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, in conversation with Wynton Marsalis, musician, educator, and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. BY Society of Fellows Video 2 days ago Free Speech and Religion Reflections on the Blessings of Being Midwifed Our goal is to walk together over a short period of time and construct a deeper understanding of how we might midwife hope and progress for the greater good of an inclusive America. BY Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque Blog Post 2 days ago Health Care Mental Health Inequities in COVID-19 As COVID-19 has illuminated the pre-existing disparities in health care, it has also shown us the BY Aspen Global Innovators Group Video 2 days ago Climate Change Innovators In Carbon Removal: A Virtual Exchange of Ideas Innovators In___: A Virtual Exchange of Ideas, is a new digital series that will feature a unique BY Energy and Environment Program Video 2 days ago Load More Five Best Ideas of the Day Published each weekday, at noon. Get the Five Best Ideas of the Day in Your Inbox 1 How ‘good white people’ derail social progress. John Blake at CNN 2 Americans aren’t having babies during the pandemic – and it could impact our economy. Peter Coy in Bloomberg Businessweek 3 Your brain waves today can predict how you’ll respond to pain tomorrow. University of Birmingham 4 What happens to America’s 2.6 million miles of underground pipeline when we move beyond oil and gas? Justine Calma in the Verge 5 Rogue actors and external forces like climate and disease pose a real threat to the power of nations. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. in Project Syndicate View Previous Ideas IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute is the tri-annual flagship publication of the Aspen Institute, with a mandate to promote not just the ever-increasing initiatives and programs of the Institute but the ideas driving them. Around the Institute IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Summer 2020 Fauci, Klain, and Messonnier weigh in on Covid-19; the Food and Society Program offers pandemic protocols for restaurants; and more. 06.01.2020 Learn More Around the Institute IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Winter 2019 / 20 An electric evening in Fargo, the science of tech meets the art of policy, Edmund De Waal, Native Youth take up voting rights, and more. 12.05.2019 Learn More Around the Institute IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Special Issue 2019 All about Aspen Health, Aspen Ideas, Aspen Security, Aspen Action, and Aspen Bauhaus. We ask kids not to retire from sports; examine the American West; and much more. 10.01.2019 Learn More Around the Institute IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Summer 2019 We celebrate 20 years of community conversations; our youngest fellows come out strong and local; and the Institute tackles social isolation. 06.05.2019 Learn More Around the Institute IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Winter 2018/2019 Everything in Moderation: Aspen Seminars’ Expert Corps. Plus Aspen on the Prairie and the Congressional Program Tackles Partisanship. 12.15.2018 Learn More Around the Institute IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Full Special Issue 2018 Tackling Ideas, health, security, action, and the economy in Aspen. Plus social impact on sesame street and an artificially intelligent future. 10.01.2018 Learn More 2020 ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL More Information The best of the Institute, right in your inbox. 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