The Aspen Institute

The NextGen network asks young leaders to explore how societies should respond to new technology and to examine local and international policy solutions.

This year, the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus School of Design, Lynda and Stewart Resnick donated $10 million for a new center on the Institute’s campus in Aspen dedicated to the work of artist Herbert Bayer.

Babies are more likely than older children to end up in foster care despite being more vulnerable developmentally. A new initiative is changing that, says Myra Jones-Taylor. Instead of blame, Safe Babies Court Teams helps parents become confident, stable caretakers, so babies can leave foster care and go home.

Panelists used An American Marriage to talk about inequality in the US justice system, why the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and how criminal-justice reform can help.

Chang, Brooklyn’s first female poet laureate and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, spoke about the creative process during a taping of the First Draft podcast hosted by Mitzi Rapkin.