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Monkeypox: The Response and What's Next
In May 2022, an outbreak of monkeypox, a viral disease, was confirmed. It quickly spread from the United Kingdom to many countries around the world. …
3 years, 5 months ago
Josh Chin and Liza Lin: China and the Era of Digital Surveillance
An alarming new reality is emerging in China, where a new kind of political control is being waged through the optimization of technology. Journalist…
3 years, 5 months ago
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Author Katherine Blunt provides what is being called a "revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications," exploring the decline of California…
3 years, 5 months ago
Senator Patrick Leahy: My Life in Politics
From post-Watergate reforms, to the fall of the Soviet Union, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, 9/11 and the Iraq War, the Great Recession, the two Tr…
3 years, 5 months ago
CLIMATE ONE: The Inflation Reduction Act Passed. Now What?
In August, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The IRA allocates around $370 billion over ten years to invest in renewable e…
3 years, 5 months ago
How to Decide Which Medical and Health Information You Should Trust
Fake news? Alternative facts? Overly hyped "breakthroughs"? Irreproducible scientific research results? Preprints? Gaslighting the medical literature…
3 years, 5 months ago
That Is Not Your Mind!
Author of That Is Not Your Mind: Zen Reflections on the Surangama Sutra, Robert Rosenbaum explores that question by taking forum participants on a ma…
3 years, 5 months ago
Valerie Biden Owens: Family, Faith and Responsibility
Join us for a conversation about family, faith and responsibility, with Valerie Biden Owens and Dr. Gloria Duffy. Valerie Biden Owens is Biden Instit…
3 years, 6 months ago
Kermit Roosevelt III: The Nation That Never Was
Is today’s America really the one the Founding Fathers envisioned? That is the question constitutional scholar Kermit Roosevelt asks, tracing the maj…
3 years, 6 months ago
CLIMATE ONE: Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival
After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the clim…
3 years, 6 months ago