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![Governments Alone Can’t Save the World](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null8515d50d-7eba-448a-a9b4-9c24961879c4/27934547066_3904b3a1c7_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
From global health threats to the refugee crisis, to privacy and cybersecurity, international organizations and the private sector are often in a better position and more effective on the frontlines of transnational threats than governmental entities. Join the Global Head of Public Policy for Google, a doctor working to get vaccines to the world’s neediest, and the former...
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For 60 years, the US government has been laying secret doomsday plans in the event of a nuclear war.
![What’s Next for Ukraine?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/72257397-10ee-4bd1-9ead-7eb8a1fb3c5c/27759279550_590eea9fdd_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1224%2C0%2C4912%2C4912&w=290)
As a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia wearily sustains, Ukraine’s government still feels the two-year-old burn of Russia’s unlawful Crimea annexation. And although this defining geopolitical provocation still sets the governments of Moscow and Kiev at odds, Ukraine has many competing priorities. What is the future of economic sanctions on Russia? Can Ukraine defeat cor...
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Putin’s government is increasingly acting as an outlaw state across the international stage.
![Who Should Safeguard Our Data?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null5b74e308-50b9-4382-b327-70f437ecfaeb/27424676824_d530b95000_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
So much of who we are and what defines us—as individuals, businesses, and organizations—is captured in data that resides in the cloud. A few lines of code can dismantle business, shut down infrastructure, and reveal critical personal details. It’s widely accepted that code moves faster than law, so how do we protect the intangible? What is the government’s role in keeping...
![The Dilemmas of Hostage Diplomacy](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/aeffe362-12cf-489e-8e95-b6fd9e7b0cde/53008893562_75b393a9ae_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
Hostage-taking presents nations with a conundrum: How can governments bring their citizens home while also preventing further captures? The United States’s top hostage negotiator, a leading scholar, and a former hostage discuss navigating the difficult waters of hostage diplomacy.
![Who Wants to Change the World?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullb2e50273-fcfe-4fd8-a075-8392eccd3efb/48145817941_5bb647ffa6_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
Hear first-hand from four extraordinary social entrepreneurs who are working in communities around the world to solve some of society’s most complex issues from education to healthcare and human rights.
The youngest member of the US Senate talks about championing a new brand of conservatism.
![Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/15a06ceb-ed99-4e6b-b4d9-02601d93d281/28246190487_0d92070332_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=688%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented economic headwinds — from aging populations to scarce resources to unsustainable debt burdens. Democracies risk falling...
![The Inside Story of How Presidents Prepare for Armageddon](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulldb6a1634-c499-421a-9ad1-bcc2879287a1/35650345945_4ec6400196_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
For 60 years, the US government has been laying secret doomsday plans to save itself in the event of nuclear war — even while the rest of us die. Today, a third generation of doomsday planners are settling into life inside a network of bunkers that are staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, ready to house top government officials in the event of catastrophe. How did thes...
![On Climate Policy, Cities Lead the Way](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null414a1554-4430-49b5-b33d-f12c575e71b4/48145267816_31d66da870_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=832%2C0%2C3335%2C3335&w=290)
Cities are responsible for 70 percent of global carbon emissions, and by 2050, two out of every three people will live in one. Fortunately, cities are getting serious about environmental footprint — New York announced its own Green New Deal, Melbourne aims to be carbon neutral by 2020, and Los Angeles will use 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. Mayors are often more nim...
![Straight Talk from the US Southern Border](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullff670dde-2bee-42c0-bfa1-f2a168a0c91d/48151979772_a5907d8441_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
If you assume things have quieted down on the US-Mexico border, think again. The chaos and questions that have plagued the region for decades are reaching fever pitch while tens of thousands of lives remain in flux. How did we get here? Where — and how — are the children who were separated from their families? Are the administration’s latest crackdowns making any progress...
![Power Shift: The New Borders and Boundaries of Our Digital World](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null53a5a2c9-1c83-4378-b4a5-f38231d4bcdb/27964847796_51f952b303_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
While the public once considered the digital world merely a space for communication and information access, perhaps we should think of it as a landscape of its own: As we know at this point, the cyber world is defined by unique security threats, physical restraints, and power dynamics. Likewise, on the Internet, monitoring and mediating insecurities, threats, and attacks h...
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Any organization, public or private, with any connection to Ukraine, should be exercising extreme technological vigilance, says cybersecurity expert Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Intelligence at Mandiant. In addition to the attacks on the ground, Russia could come at Ukraine virtually, with a wide range of targets and tactics and varying levels...
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How can we stay safe in the increasingly tech-driven world?
![Make China Great Again: Xi's Vision for Supremacy](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null7f206c64-fe87-430b-b128-8b768bcb715e/48146550562_b1e644abae_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=294%2C0%2C1011%2C1011&w=290)
The US government misjudged the rise of China over the last decade — as the country has grown in economic power, it's become more rambunctious internationally, not less. Its Belt and Road Initiative is winning over countries that used to be US allies. It’s expanding its military power and reach in the South China Sea, attacking US companies in cyberspace, and advancing in...
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David Miliband thinks the refugee crisis is solvable. So how do we start?
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Haris Tarin and Rabia Chaudry on being Muslim and American in 2017.
![The Age of Euroscepticism](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d022cfe3-5d7a-48d7-8565-242f8ad38745/42210184505_3a229bf151_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=530%2C0%2C1939%2C1939&w=290)
The grand European experiment of a shared currency, economy, and joint governance — a Nobel Peace Prize-worthy idea that has kept the continent at peace longer than ever before — today faces unprecedented tests, including Brexit, terrorism, a new anti establishment government in Italy, and rising nationalism fueled (at least in part) by a flood of immigrants from the Syria...
![No Such Agency: The NSA Explained](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/14f5d695-13be-4b9e-a12e-5f126526e01a/43063127392_216fc3c364_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1120%2C0%2C4480%2C4480&w=290)
In the age of big data and the rise of the digital economy, no government agency plays a more central — or less understood — role than the mysterious National Security Agency. For years, the so-called Puzzle Palace was so secret that officials joked its acronym stood for “No Such Agency,” — until Edward Snowden published many of its biggest secrets online. Hear one of the...