The Great Refusal
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.
In-Person
Events
New America is proud to serve as a gathering place for events—both online and in-person—to exchange ideas, spotlight new research, and engage with diverse perspectives. Every year, New America’s events bring together thousands of people across sectors and disciplines to help shape policy discussions and drive solutions to real-world challenges.
Inconceivable
Anna Louie Sussman explores what is keeping us from having the families we desire, showing how decades of policy choices that elevated profits over people have left young people unable to envision a future with children.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST
12th Annual Future Security Forum
Arizona State University and New America will host the 12th Annual Future Security Forum: 25 Years After September 11, Lessons From America’s Post-9/11 Wars. This year’s Forum is organized in collaboration with Global SOF Foundation, Security & Defence PLuS, the McCain Institute, and Small Wars Journal.
Hybrid
New America
740 15th St. NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005
Seasons of Fury
Rozina Ali narrates a sweeping history of the U.S. government’s broken compact with its Muslim citizens, following four families across eight decades of surveillance, detention, and prejudice.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST
Insights to Action
In-depth conversation with state and local leaders about building and sustaining early childhood funding strategies and workforce supports.
Virtual
1PM – 2:30PM EST
The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It
Join the New Practice Lab and Annie Lowrey to discuss how government paperwork steals families’ time—and what fixing it could mean to Americans.
In-Person
12PM – 1PM EST
New America | 740 15th St NW #900 Washington, DC 20005
Video Learning from a 1939 Library Protest
Learn more about the Alexandria, Virginia library sit-in of 1939, the first recorded sit-in to demand racial integration.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST
The Next Generation of Voters
Join to understand the systems that reinforce America’s gerontocracy, the structural reforms that could change them, and what young voters actually want out of US politics.
Virtual
6PM – 7PM EST
The City of Raleigh’s First Civic Assembly
Join for a discussion of the civic assembly process, and how the city of Raleigh recently facilitated it’s first assembly, which resulted in two dozen proposals all unanimously received by the City Council.
Virtual
1PM – 2PM EST
The ROAD to Small-Dollar Homeownership
Join for a sneak peak at a soon to be released report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, exploring a range of supply, financing and quality solutions for increasing access to small-dollar homes.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST
The Future of the Foreign Affairs Workforce: Rebuilding Public Service
How can the government rebuild public service and best ensure a State Department prepared for the challenges of the future? Listen in on the discussion to learn more about how the strength of foreign‑affairs institutions depends on the people who serve within them.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST
For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage
Marriage rates have fallen sharply since the 1970s, yet most Americans still say they want to marry. Explore what history can teach us about where we are now, and why, despite everything, there is real reason for hope with author Stephanie Cootnz.
Virtual
1PM – 2PM EST
The Global Spectrum Fight That Could Define U.S. Satellite Leadership
Join the discussion about one of the most consequential—and least covered—regulatory fights shaping the future of U.S. commercial and technology leadership in space.
Virtual
2PM – 3PM EST
Policy Advocacy & Implementation Training for Nonprofits
In-Person
11AM – 2PM EST
The Chicago Community Trust
33 S. State Street Suite 750, Chicago, IL, DuSable boardroom
Fires in the Night
Learn about the Earth Liberation Front’s rise and unraveling, drawing on years of original reporting, interviews, and thousands of pages of unreleased investigative files.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST