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The Wakanda Rule: Refine What You Mine and Keep the Change

3 days ago | newamerica.org | Aryn Baker

At a Glance:A commitment to processing critical minerals domestically or regionally offers a way for African countries to develop and capture greater value while diversifying global supply chains. Mapping mineral deposits is a time-consuming and expensive but essential first step that requires building local knowledge in mapping, modeling, metallurgy, mining law, and supply chains.
Democracy Deciphered Podcast: Episode 9

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Shannon Lynch

How could the One Big Beautiful Bill affect how we pay for college? New America's Antoinette Flores breaks it all down. Flores is the Director of Higher Education Accountability and Quality in the Higher Education initiative at New America, where she works to advance federal policies to increase accountability, quality, and equity in higher education. TranscriptShannon Lynch: Do you have student loan debt? Do you or someone you love plan to go to college in the future?
Understanding class in the United States is critical if we want to transform caregiving policy

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Brigid Schulte

Joan Williams is a pioneer who has always led from way out front. A legal scholar and professor, researcher, author of 12 books, 116 academic articles and a life-long feminist, she has been called a “rock star” in the work-family movement. Now, with the publication of her new book, Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win them Back, she’s trying to reshape how we think about class in this country, and how a shift in thinking will bolster caregiver-friendly policies.
Experiment No. 39: Shared Batch Cooking

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Haley Swenson

What We’re Trying to Solve: The work of cooking for a household during a busy work weekTarget Audience: Members of a community, any household typeAges: AdultsCategory: Meal Planning and CookingEstimated Time: 1-2 hours per weekLength: At least two weeks, but we recommend committing to fourDifficulty Level: MediumInterested? If you're willing to give this a try, we'd love to hear from you about how it went! Take our survey here.
How to Share the Work of Cooking And Build Community

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Haley Swenson

Shannon Amspacher has a dream. What if we cut our weekly cooking time nearly in half, added more variety and home-cooked food to our family’s weekly menu, and built meaningful community ties at the same time? That’s the idea behind Potluck, a technology platform that Amspacher is in the process of developing that would match individuals with someone in their community who also wants to share the load of weekly meal planning and preparation.
Unfinished Empire

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux

Candace Rondeaux’s offers a meticulously reported account of the Wagner Group’s rise, its brutal tactics in Ukraine, and its entanglement with Putin’s regime. Juxtaposed against Donnacha Ó Beacháin’s more polemical , Rondeaux’s work stands out to The Irish Times for its investigative depth and refusal to flatten Russian history into a single narrative. Read here.
"Putin’s Sledgehammer" Reveals How the Wagner Group Became So Powerful it Threatened Him

1 week ago | newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux

Investigating the rise and unraveling of the Wagner Group & Russia’s notorious paramilitary force with deep ties to Vladimir Putin, author and Senior Director Candace Rondeaux joined Nick Schifrin to discuss Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos on PBS News Hour. Watch or read the full transcript here.
Compute or Be Computed

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux

The physical infrastructure of computing fundamentally constrains AI sovereignty, creating a new geopolitical stratification where only the United States and China enjoy full-stack supply chain control. Most nations face various degrees of dependency in a “sovereignty shell game” that delivers the rhetoric but not the reality of AI sovereignty.
Elizabeth Weingarten on How to Fall in Love With Questions in Times of Uncertainty

2 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Haley Swenson

Are we headed for a recession? Will long-standing political institutions and norms fall? Will the public policies our families and communities rely on be there in the coming years? Are my basic political rights going to change? Today, Americans face a near-avalanche of uncertainty about major social, economic, and political questions. In the midst of this public uncertainty, they continue to navigate the big, deep, and personal questions people have asked themselves throughout history.
Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos with Candace Rondeaux

3 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Candace Rondeaux

Candace Rondeaux joins the Secrets and Spies podcast to dissect the Wagner Group’s rise as a covert instrument of Russian power, drawing on her book Putin’s Sledgehammer. She unpacks how Wagner fused organized crime with state ambition to evade sanctions, arm militias, and export Kremlin influence from Syria to Africa. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.