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Maria Hinojosa, News Anchor and Reporter

In this Aspen Ideas To Go Podcast “Extra” episode, Eric Liu talks to Maria Hinojosa, an award-winning news anchor and reporter.

BY Aspen Ideas To Go

Podcast

05.26.2016
Identity and Equity

Colin Woodard Describes Differing American Values

In this Aspen Ideas To Go Podcast "Extra" episode, Eric Liu talks to Colin Woodard, an award-winning author and journalist. In his book, "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America," Woodard describes why American values differ across the country.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

05.19.2016
Identity and Equity

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on a Modern American Language

Eric Liu talks to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates is a filmmaker, scholar, journalist and cultural critic. He offers his ideas on what terms should make up a modern American language.

BY Aspen Ideas To Go

Podcast

05.13.2016
Identity and Equity

Why Young People Are Crucial to LGBTQ Advocacy

Peace First Fellow Brennan Lewis describes how LGBT youth in North Carolina are working against discrimination.

BY Brennan Lewis

Blog Post

04.18.2016
Identity and Equity

End the Opportunity Monopoly

Eric Liu, director of the Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program, discusses how presidential candidates are tapping into Americans' sense that they are too small to matter — and how a change to truly help Americans would require busting through what he calls the "opportunity monopoly."

BY Eric Liu

Blog Post

03.14.2016
Identity and Equity

Randi Weingarten on What Every American Should Know

Responding to E.D. Hirsch's list of things that every American should know, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, shares her list of 10 things every American should know to be effective citizens.

BY Randi Weingarten, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

03.02.2016
Identity and Equity

On Hillary Clinton and the Obstacles All Women Face

I marvel at how far we have come — but every so often I am gobsmacked by how far we have NOT come.

BY Peggy Clark

Blog Post

02.25.2016
Identity and Equity

How Do You Define Inequality?

Key speakers from The Summit On Inequality And Opportunity share their definition of inequality.

BY Institute Staff

Video

02.01.2016
Identity and Equity

Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Exercise in Radical Empathy

In a series of spoken-word performances, slam poet and PhD candidate Clint Smith confronts inequality in American society, and three high school students from the Southeast Washington, DC, area are interviewed about how they experience systemic inequality in their neighborhoods.

BY Tricia Johnson, Guest Blogger

Podcast

01.07.2016
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