IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Winter 2017

EPIC developed Finance Forward, a multicity event series that brings together local governments, businesses, community advocates, and nonprofit leaders to come up with innovative solutions to income volatility.

In the Institute’s New Voices Fellowship, fellows from Africa and other parts of the developing world get training and support to help them sharpen their messages, tell their stories, and provide crucial grassroots perspectives to a worldwide audience.

Economist Richard Reeves explains how the top 20 percent are hoarding the American Dream.

A collection of photos from the Tisch Conversations with Great Leaders.

The Washington Post’s Executive Editor Martin Baron talks about journalism’s foundational role in a democracy.

A collection of photos of attendees from the John P. McNulty Prize reception.

Eric L. Motley’s new memoir is a distinctly American journey of hope and faith—from reconstruction to the present.

Technology is destroying jobs and upending international politics. The way to harness it is not to try to turn the clock back, even if recent elections make voters look ready to. It’s to bring back humanity to technology.

Playing soccer should be a matter of a ball and a patch of space. But the children whose families can’t afford $5,000 for equipment or coaching are losing out. A group of grassroots soccer leaders are changing that.

A collection of photos of attendees from the Society of Fellows Reception.