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A 2018 UN report on climate change urged swift and unprecedented action to curb the rise of the planet’s temperature. Experts argue that avoiding a crisis will require significant breakthroughs in technology, a full stop on fossil fuel projects, fundamental changes to the way we feed the world, and ubiquitous carbon policies. Who will lead the charge towards a multilateral...
More and more, companies are embracing the concept of corporate purpose as Americans' perceptions of big business have shifted. While declaring a purpose beyond profit is a starting point, how do you actually deliver on it to drive positive change for communities and society?
Where do emotions come from? Are they hardwired at birth, or are they constructed by our brains as we develop? Are our varied reactions somehow part of our genetic makeup? Why do emotions feel involuntary? Explore the science of emotion and the hidden forces that drive our behavior and that of those around us.
Today’s athletic champions are delivering peak performances that defy well-established limits of age. Olympians are consistently shattering long-standing world records. What is allowing these remarkable advances in superhuman feats? Featuring elite athletes, researchers, doctors, and coaches, explore the technology, nutrition, training, and psychological tools that enable...
Jennifer Eberhardt is a social psychologist at Stanford University,conducting research on race and inequality. She is currently the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, a psychology professor, and a faculty director of Stanford SPARQ, a university initiative to use social psychological research to address pressing social problems. Previously, she taught a...
Adam Grant is a professor of management and psychology at The Wharton School, where he’s been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. As an organizational psychologist, his expertise is in how people can find motivation and meaning. Grant writes on work and psychology for The New York Times, authored four best-selling books, hosts the TED podcast “WorkLife,” and...
Nicholas Thompson is the editor in chief of WIRED, a position he has held since January 2017. He is also a contributor for CBS News and regularly appears on “CBS This Morning” and CBSN. Prior to his current position at WIRED, Thompson was editor of NewYorker.com from 2012 to 2017. Before that, he was a senior editor at WIRED. He is a co-founder of The Atavist, a National M...
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, a contributing columnist at The Washington Post, and historian. From 1984 to 1988, he served in the US State Department as a policy planning staff member, principal speechwriter for then-secretary of state George Shultz, and policy deputy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. Kagan’s latest book...
Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, since 2003. A veteran diplomat, he was previously senior Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush and director of the US State Department’s policy planning staff, advising Colin Powell. Haass has also been US coordinator for Afghanistan policy and US envoy to the Cyprus and Northern Ireland peace talk...
Mira Rapp-Hooper is a lecturer and senior research law scholar at Yale Law School, a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. Previously, she held fellowships with the Center for a New American Security’s Asia-Pacific Security Program and the CSIS As...
Paul Ryan is former speaker of the US House of Representatives, serving from 2015 to January 2019. First elected to Congress at age 28, he represented Wisconsin’s First District for two decades. In 2012, he was selected as Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential nominee. Ryan chaired the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Budget Committee and spearheaded passage of the T...
Karl Rove writes a weekly op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, is a Fox News contributor, and founded the American Crossroads/Senate Leadership Fund super PAC. He served as senior advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 to 2007 and as deputy chief of staff from 2004 to 2007. “The Architect” of Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns previously was president of Karl Rove + Compa...
Gita Gopinath is economic counsellor and director of the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department, on leave from Harvard University, where she’s the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics. Previously, Gopinath was an assistant economics professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She has been co-director of the National...