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![Philanthropy, Civil Society, and Trust: Democracy Works, if We Work It](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/772984de-81b9-477c-94de-d8cfecab5f3a/28140334337_8eca2c559a_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=666%2C0%2C2168%2C2168&w=290)
Trust is democracy’s most valuable asset; we simply can’t work together to solve large problems without it. Yet, trust is at an all-time low. Polling reveals that a majority of Americans do not trust government or the media, and — perhaps more concerning — they do not trust each other. The Aspen Institute’s program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation argues that when it...
![In Conversation with Governor Laura Kelly](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/9de4361f-a9b8-443c-bf3d-cc29e46f0f79/53806503442_f6b6f1a6b3_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1550%2C0%2C3101%2C3101&w=290)
Laura Kelly sits down to discuss health policy and practice in the state of Kansas. Kelly, a Democrat, heads the traditionally red state of Kansas, where government is divided. She'll discuss challenges—from fiscal pressures, Medicaid cost-sharing, and the need to bolster public health, to the threat of future pandemics and delicate decisions about reproductive health and...
![The Supremes Latest Hit: The Affordable Care Act Survives Another Test](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/be2678bd-a323-4c3b-8d52-86a5a062ce9f/14519998251_574ae0c144_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=824%2C0%2C3280%2C3280&w=290)
With the Supreme Court’s ruling that the federal government can continue to provide health insurance subsidies, the Affordable Care Act, as President Obama said in reaction to the ruling, “is here to stay.” Five Washington insiders, including Democrats who drafted the bill and guided it into law, and a Republican who urged state governors to set up insurance exchanges, wil...
![Tech's Immediate and Existential Threat to Humanity](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/5e671a32-ec3c-4012-bba3-2da8aba730de/43022578652_9854a67175_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1120%2C0%2C4480%2C4480&w=290)
George Soros said social media platforms are the largest threat to democracy. Marc Benioff said we should regulate them like tobacco. Why? Every day, platforms like Facebook and YouTube point their supercomputers at two billion people’s minds to capture their attention, and in the process create social harms that include digital addiction, amplifying genocide, political po...
![What Will the Green New Deal Cost, and What Can It Save?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null4a8790ca-3854-4a5a-a39a-1138ce38f9be/48153859121_e597a3149d_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=688%2C0%2C2624%2C2624&w=290)
Many experts argue that massive government mobilization on the scale of World War II deployment is needed to address the catastrophe of climate change. Such is the scope of the Green New Deal, a policy calling for 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, universal health care, living wages, and jobs guarantees. But some economists argue it could cost between $51 trillion and...
![Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullc3470a7b-17e7-4903-92fe-bd58bbe3c37b/35562998511_3b46f1a5cc_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
Many of the people doing today’s most consequential environmental work — restoring America’s grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans — would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land — they feel a moral responsibility to preserve their heritage and ens...