How might we change the narrative around our changing climate to underscore urgency and justice?

Planetary Politics’s Heela Rasool-Ayub considers the growing need to rapidly and equitably transition away from fossil fuels.

🗺️ bit.ly/4aBjDpV

🗳️ Voting is open for Washington City Paper's annual 'Best of DC' awards & New America needs your help!

Now through June 10th @ 5pm, submit 'The Alley: DC's 8th and H Case' as your nomination for Best Local Podcast in the Arts & Entertainment category.

☑️ #BestOfDC bit.ly/3UmfqzO

How can we achieve a digital future that fosters innovation while respecting human rights?

In a new brief, Ford Foundation, Microsoft, and DIGI@NewAmerica identify conditions for creating digital ecosystems that prioritize public interest.

💡Read here: bit.ly/3UIh9ky

What can be done to safeguard cyberspace for all Americans?

Join #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship Advisor Camille Stewart Gloster & POLITICO's Maggie Miller for a fireside chat about data privacy, generative AI, & critical infrastructure security.

📆 RSVP: 5/2 @ 10am ET bit.ly/3UFttSF

Join Future Tense to watch and discuss the 2016 sci-fi film, Arrival. The event is free and open to the public

🗣️ Speakers: Shane Harris, Katherine Mangu-Ward (@kmanguward), Jack Traphagan of Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative

📆 May 13 E Street Cinema bit.ly/4a1cVsm

How can complex adaptive systems contribute to global stability and equality in the age of AI?

Planetary Politics, Princeton University and Arizona State University examine how complexity thinking can inform policy to encourage the benefits and mitigate the risks of advanced AI.

🤖 bit.ly/3WljGSP

Upcoming @ New America

4/30 NewAmericaISP Arizona State University Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East
5/1 Open Tech Institute Can Age Verification Help Kids Stay Safe Online?
5/2 Nat'l. Cyber Strategy 1 Year Out; Combating Antisemitism in Germany & Poland

📅 #NewAmericaEvents bit.ly/3w9tLUB

Is climate change leading the next real estate trend?

Future of Land and Housing Program at New America's Helen Bonnyman dives into how the predicted movement of 50 million Americans to climate havens will exacerbate our existing housing challenges and what we can do about it.

🏡 bit.ly/43H9gyu

Launching any technology requires an iterative approach with a focus on end-users.

New Practice Lab Deputy Director Ayushi Roy writes about how the IRS Direct File pilot sets a new precedent for government technology for Gannett

🔗 bit.ly/3UE15QM

Neoliberal economic policies have isolated us from one another and crunched the middle class.

Tara Dawson McGuinness of New America's New Practice Lab envisions a middle-out economic era that prioritizes families & connection in a recent Democracy Journal piece.

🗞️ bit.ly/491gkXG

New America's Us@250 Fellowship provides funding, resources, and community for those engaged in civic engagement, narrative change and storytelling, and cultural education connected to the nation's semiquincentennial in 2026.

📝 Apply now through 5/3: bit.ly/3YRf84b

What are the national security implications of the AI revolution?

New America and Arizona State University's @PeterWSinger discusses AI's rapid advancement and its impact on national security with FIU's JGI Policy Pulse podcast.

🎧 bit.ly/49ImNqX

When we use terms like “living in the cloud”, we create a narrative that implies there isn’t a physical impact to our tech-centric lifestyles—but that is far from the case.

⚡ Open Tech Institute's Nat Meysenburg considers AI’s power consumption and ecological impact: bit.ly/43JTUJF

An increasing number of migrants fleeing climate disasters are arriving at the border b/t Mexico and the U.S.

Planetary Politics's Madison Harris highlights the importance of community-led initiatives to foster sustainable solutions to the climate crisis.

🔆 bit.ly/3UfrAua

How can mainstream storytelling flip the script on conventional narratives about caregiving?

Hosted by Television Academy, Caring Across Generations #CareCantWait & Better Life Lab will discuss what storytellers can do to help move us all beyond the status quo.

📺 May 8 bit.ly/44nOJzl

What does democracy look like? In the U.S. today, it depends on who you ask.

@OscarPocasangre of Political Reform investigates the case of our “democracy hypocrisy”—and what it might take for us to resolve it.

🗳️ bit.ly/3Tg70tl

The 250th anniversary of America's founding offers us a chance to celebrate our progress, reckon w/ our past, & recommit to building a more equitable nation.

🎨 #Us250 Fellow K. Melchor Quick Hall discusses the role of art in imagining collective freedom: bit.ly/3Th0W3V

What can be done to safeguard cyberspace for all Americans?

Join #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship Advisor Camille Stewart Gloster & POLITICO's Maggie Miller for a fireside chat about data privacy, generative AI, & critical infrastructure security.

📆 RSVP: 5/2 @ 10am ET bit.ly/3UFttSF

Senators have warned that millions of senior Americans could be at risk of losing their Social Security benefits if they default on student loan repayments.

💰 New America Ed research cited in a recent Newsweek piece by Aliss Higham: bit.ly/3xIoqaM

Sharing successful stories of co-governance is key to transforming our governing structure for the better.

Political Reform chats with Harry Nathan Gottlieb and Matt Byrne of Unify America about their pilot Citizens’ Assembly in Montrose, Colorado.

🤝 bit.ly/3QeZcau