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November 28, 2023

Middle East Program
Virtual Media Briefing: Gaza the Day After

Panelists discuss the possibilities for governance in Gaza, including the potential role of regional powers and the West. FROMAN: Well, thanks very much, Emily. And thanks, everybody, for joining …

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October 10, 2023

Health
Council Special Report: A New U.S. Foreign Policy for Global Health

Panelists discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy on global health and ways to address future pandemics, climate change, health-related development goals, and other challenges in a divided country …

Play A nurse wearing personal protective equipment stands outside Elmhurst Hospital.

September 26, 2023

Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, discusses the recent achievement of a net energy gain from a nuclear fusion reaction and its implications for the futu…

Play Fusion reactor, illustration. Nuclear fusion is the combination of atomic nuclei, a process that releases massive amounts of energy. If this process could be harnessed it could be an unlimited source of clean renewable energy.

September 7, 2023

Education
Higher Education Webinar: The Changing Landscape of Admissions Criteria

Scott Jaschik, cofounder and former chief executive officer and editor of Inside Higher Ed, leads the conversation on the changing landscape of college and university admissions criteria. FASKIANO…

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August 8, 2023

Africa Program
LGBTQ+ Rights in Africa

Panelists discuss the status of LGBTQ+ rights in Africa, along with the opportunities and challenges of U.S. foreign policy and U.S. aid in advancing equality and human rights in the region. 

Play An LGBT activist holds the rainbow flag during a court hearing in the Milimani high Court in Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya.

May 2, 2023

United States
Virtual Roundtable: The Epidemic of Gun Violence in American Schools

Gun violence has become integral to the American childhood. With an estimated three million U.S. children exposed to shootings every year, the physical, psychological, and societal toll of gun violen…

Play Crosses with the names of victims of a school shooting at a memorial outside Robb Elementary school

April 18, 2023

United States
Lessons From History Series Meeting: The Foreign Policy Legacy of the George W. Bush Administration

Panelists discuss the foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush presidency, its successes and failures, and the lasting effects that were passed on to subsequent U.S. presidents. The Lessons From H…

Play U.S. President George W. Bush sits with the leaders of Russia, Germany, and the United Kingdom