A CONVERSATION WITH KAREN MILLS As part of the Aspen Institute event series "Building the Economy We Want: Aspen Asks What Will it Take?" Karen Mills, Administrator of the Small Business...
Topics: initiative on financial security 
Domestic and international news media influence and directly affect the quality and accuracy of information being shared with the public. News coverage of events, particularly of Presidential...
Topics: state of race in america 
At the State of Race in America symposium, at the Newseum April 9, Time Magazine's Michael Scherer, Telemundo's Jose Diaz-Balart and others discuss the voting power of the Latino base. They refer to...
Topics: state of race in america 
American politics are becoming more and more polarized along ideological lines, as contemporary fights over health and financial issues illustrate. What are the implications of this polarization for...
Topics: state of race in america 
Recent polls suggest that Latinos are dissatisfied with both major political parties and less than enthusiastic about the upcoming Presidential election. Politically, many assume that the Democratic...
Topics: state of race in america 
Schools in America are failing children of color at alarming rates. While the public education system should be a powerful democratizing institution, many charge that it is a stratifying institution...
Topics: state of race in america 
Rather than referring to the U.S. as “The Melting Pot”, many suggest that the country is in essence a “hyphenated America”, or a mosaic of cultures and ethnicities. With an estimated 12 million...
Topics: Communications and Society Program, race, state of race in america 
The George Washington University School of Business hosts the Aspen Undergraduate Business Education Consortium, designed to better integrate liberal learning into undergraduate business education....
Topics: Walter Isaacson, Business & Society, Steve Jobs 
As the means of communication become faster, cheaper and easier to copy, traditional business models and legal protections for the content being transmitted are undergoing drastic changes. The user-...
Topics: Communications and Society Program 
