Communications & Culture

The growing power of artificial intelligence and machine learning provides many opportunities to aug

Featuring Ross Douthat, conservative political analyst, author, and New York Times columnist in conversation with Michelle Goldberg, New Yor

The most important ingredient is a relentless focus on the people using the services.

At Aspen Digital, we work to ensure that technology and digital media are deployed to create an informed, just, and equitable society. It’s a lofty goal that we likely won’t accomplish in any of our lifetimes—but that won’t stop us from striving.

Since World War II, the US federal government has directly funded overseas radio and digital outlets for the purpose of distributing fact-based news and American values. This program is now under siege.

Social unrest and physical distancing are not making it easy to connect with other people.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reached Indian Country, with a reported 17,089 cases as of June 20, 2020, according to Indian Health Services. That's more cases than in many nations, and an ongoing housing crisis—with multiple families often sharing one roof—is fanning the flames of an already highly contagious virus, laying bare the impact housing has on our health.

As the nation reconsiders its long history of systemic racism and oppression, there has been an increase in new corporate pledges to improve

Young people of color from places of long-time disinvestment, a history of racist systems, and concentrated poverty are starting from even further back than most.