IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Winter 2019 / 20 - The Aspen Institute

Around the Institute

Around the Institute

Editor's Letter Winter Issue 2019-2020

“May I write for your magazine?” Edmund de Waal was sitting on a bench overlooking sculptor Andy Goldsworthy’s Stone River, one of the earthworks ...

BY Corby Kummer

12.05.2019
Around the Institute

By the Numbers Winter 2019-2020

The Inter-Policy School Summit looks for tangible solutions to pressing global issues. Students from 14 universities explored strategies that specifically address climate change and national security.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019
Economic Development

Aspen's New Partnership on Inclusive Growth Around the World

The Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy will combine the ideas, talents, and resources of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to address income and information inequality.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019

Literature

What to Read this Winter

Aspen Words welcomes authors who have reached the top of the best-seller list, been celebrated with the highest literary accolades, and had books adapted into Hollywood hits. Here are the latest titles to add to your reading list.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019
Around the Institute

Big in Kyiv

The Institute’s small but passionate Aspen Institute Kyiv team has had some striking accomplishments recently.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019
Climate Change

Taking on the Climate Crisis

The 2019 McNulty Prize Winner wants to heal the planet—so your kids can live on it.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019

Aspen Libris

Literature

Nothing but the Truth

Featuring authors Ibram X. Kendi, Robert J. Shiller, Manuel Oliver, and Ian Urbina.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019
As Heard At: Anousheh Ansari

No Limits

Anousheh Ansari on dreaming big and lessons learned in space.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019
As Heard at: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

After Beijing

This year, the Institute’s Madeleine K. Albright Global Development Award and Lecture went to Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who looked back on the 25 years since the world first made gender equality a global priority—then looked ahead to what the next decade might bring.

BY Institute Staff

12.05.2019

Impact

Features

The Aspen Journal of Ideas

A Form that Functions

Thanks to Institute efforts, the federal government will require nonprofits to make their tax forms open and searchable—and that will help everyone do better and more transparent work.

BY Cinthia Schuman Ottinger Anu Kumar

12.05.2019
Communications

Not Necessarily the News

Cable news is hyper-charged and partisan. Social media is easily manipulated and faked. Local news is shriveling. How can Americans trust the news again? A new Institute initiative looks for answers.

BY Charles M. Firestone Lucas Welch

12.05.2019