This event is cosponsored with ASU and the Future Security Initiative.
In The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts, The New York Times Magazine contributing writer and 2022 New America Fellow Janet Reitman traces the lives of nine Americans over three decades, offering a vivid account of a nation in crisis.
This event is cohosted with ASU and the Future Security Initiative.
In Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America, The New York Times Magazine contributing writer and 2024 New America Fellow Rozina Ali offers a sweeping narrative history of the U.S. government’s broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence.
How does artistic expression endure when freedom is under threat?
This event is cosponsored with ASU and the Future Security Initiative.
From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the galleries of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Man Who Stole the Gods is a tale of stolen treasures and the battle to reclaim a nation’s soul.
With the FIFA Men's World Cup coming to North America this summer, it's worth asking: How did Americans finally come to embrace soccer, the world's most popular sport — after initially rejecting it with the same vehemence with which we rejected the metric system? Join the Great Game Lab at Arizona State University, the Center for Law and Global Affairs at ASU Law, and New America to consider this question at a special event on the evening of Tuesday, May 12.
Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this expansion was an explosion in the global bond market, at the hub of which stood one family—the Rothschilds, arguably the wealthiest banking family in history. In the early 1870s, the bubble burst. Stock markets from Vienna to New York crashed, and dozens of railroads and many governments defaulted.
This conversation revisits the original impetus behind large-scale citizen participation efforts such as the World Wide Views (WWViews) consultations: to close the democratic gap in global climate negotiations. These efforts were grounded in a theory of change that prioritized democratic legitimacy and durable collective solutions, even at the expense of speed.
This event is cosponsored with ASU and the Future Security Initiative.
One neighborhood in Istanbul offers a window onto a city, a country, a region, and a world in upheaval. In From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan, Suzy Hansen centers her reporting on Karagümrük.
This event is cohosted with ASU’s Future Tense.
This book offers a captivating exploration of how America’s complicated and ever-evolving relationship with the world can be seen through the two footballs of the world—American football and soccer—and the interaction between them.
