Since its inception, New America has hosted more than 500 high-profile public events. Each of these events seeks to shed new light on the major policy issues of our day, and typically features leading thinkers from across the political spectrum. More often than not, the events are newsmaking in their own right.
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Walter Russell
Mead, Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and
author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern
World, spoke about his recent piece in Foreign Affairs. Mead
suggested we reorchestrate our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, so that working to further Palestinian causes is also recognized as
furthering Israeli interests. Improving the Palestinian situation, and
addressing non-zero sum issues -- such as the plight of those Palestinian
refugees that… more
Wall Street's and Washington's largest financial institutions are fighting for survival. The environment grows more hostile every day. Only those that evolve will prevail.
Leo Tilman, author of "Financial Darwinism", president of strategic advisory firm L.M. Tilman & Co. and former Chief Institutional Strategist at Bear Stearns, discusses the origins of the financial crisis and how to radically redesign the financial system to make it fit to survive.
On Wednesday, December 17th, the Bipartisan Asset Policy Forum hosted American Dream 2.0: Safe & Sound First-Time Homeownership Strategies for California Working Families, a dynamic lunchtime discussion on how public policy can encourage wealth-building in California to bring homeownership opportunities into reach for working families across our state.
