New America Podcasts

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This feed includes all MP3 recordings published on NewAmerica.net, from short interviews to full-length event audio.

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The Sidebar: The Paul Ryan Plan and the Truth About Hackers

August 17, 2012
Jason Peuquet from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget on the budget bonafides of GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan and Brian Duggan from the Open Technology Institute on the massive digital takedown of Wired's Mat Honan. 
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New America NYC: D for Deception

August 14, 2012
This podcast was produced in collaboration with the Atavist and Radio Cabaret featuring the music of Seth Kessel and the Two Cent Band. What if a spy novelist jumped into the pages of his own books? It happened to Dennis Wheatley. During World War II, Wheatley went from penning bestselling thrillers to helping the British deceive Nazi intelligence. Ultimately, his elaborate deceptions helped win the war against Hitler.
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The Sidebar: A Global Romney and the Backyard Terror Threat

August 10, 2012
Steve Coll explores the Republican presidential hopeful's evolving foreign policy agenda and gaffe-ridden trip abroad. Jennifer Rowland illuminates the American group that poses a greater threat to our national security than al Qaeda. Elizabeth Weingarten hosts.
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Asset Building Podcast: Savings Product Design

August 9, 2012
Savings Product Design and Social Protection: A Podcast Interview with CGAP and CARE. . We asked Sarah Rotman, financial sector specialist at CGAP, and Dorcas Robinson, director of food security at CARE, to sit down with us and share their views on what features of formal and informal savings are important when considering how to design products for low-income clients.
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Asset Building Podcast: Going Cashless

August 9, 2012
Electronic Payments, Going Cashless, and Social Protection: A Podcast Interview with the UNDP and Citi. With a growing consensus that financial inclusion and asset building can help reduce poverty, along with cost-saving breakthroughs in payment technologies such as mobiles and biometric IDs, the potential of financial innovation to cost-effectively enhance the impact of social protection is increasingly hard to ignore.
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The Sidebar: The Long Hot Dry Summer

August 3, 2012
Christopher Leonard and Charles Kenny discuss the drought in the Midwest and its effects on food, fuel, and politics. Konstantin Kakaes hosts.
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The Sidebar: Media's Relationship with Tragedy and Our No-Vacation Nation.

July 27, 2012
Gabriel Sherman discusses the way media covers and hypes tragedy in the age of the 24-hour news cycle and David Gray explains why America is the only advanced nation without a vacation policy. Elizabeth Weingarten hosts. 
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The Sidebar: America's Startup Slowdown and Inferior Internet

July 20, 2012
Lina Khan illuminates the reasons behind the precipitous decline of American startups over the past few decades, and Danielle Kehl explains why high-speed Internet in many major American cities is slower and costlier than offerings in comparable municipalities around the world. Elizabeth Weingarten hosts.
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The Sidebar: Challenging Voter ID Laws and Breaking Down the God Particle

July 13, 2012
Reniqua Allen explains the controversy behind Texas' voter ID law and weighs in on Mitt Romney's cold reception at the NAACP. Konstantin Kakaes breaks down the science of the Higgs Boson, and argues that its discovery has been overhyped. Elizabeth Weingarten hosts.
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Alcove 4: Writing Obama

June 29, 2012
Writing about the life of the President of the United States can be a daunting task - just ask Robert Caro. The mission is even more complicated when the commander-in-chief is an esteemed author himself like President Barack Obama. But since Obama took office, a few masterful writers have successfully unearthed hidden stories from his past and present. Join the New America Foundation for a conversation with three authors who have helped reveal the real Barack Obama to the American public.
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