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Miguel Fraga, first secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C., spoke about U.S.-Cuba relations. He talked about the impact of the U.S. embargo, the changes on the island over the pre…

Anthropologist Juliana Barnet and radio talk show host Jay Winter Nightwolf talked about the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on tr…

The Institute for Policy Studies hosted a discussion on the election results and the future of the progressive movement. Representatives from several organizations talked about the implicati…

Racial justice advocates talked about issues important to the black community. Fifty organizations, including the Black Lives Matter network and the Black Youth Project joined forces to supp…

Guests, including Danny Glover, Julian Bond, and others, celebrated Representative John Conyers (D-MI) 50 years in Congress. Born in 1929, John James Conyers, Jr. was first elected in 1964 a…

Panelists talked about race relations following the August 9, 2014, police shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Topics included mi…

Cornel West was a featured speaker at a summit on drones, “Drones Around the Globe: Proliferation and Resistance.” He talked about the relationship between the military and Wall Street.

Panelists talked about the dangers surrounding the proliferation of military drone operations around the world. Speakers included a journalist and filmmaker, a human rights advocate and a pr…

Panelists talked about discusses legal challenges to U.S. drone strikes. They examined Obama administration policies concerning drones and other counterterrorism operations, and their to int…

Recently retired Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray talked about what he believes is the failure of current drug prohibition policies. He also talked about his experiences as a ju…

The authors explored the data they say indicate that greater equality among people within a society is the common factor linking the healthiest and happiest societies. The event was at Busb…

A panel discussion was held on the results of the 2008 elections and their implications for environmental policy, including climate change and energy. Topics included the impact of the finan…

Panelists talked about recent turmoil in financial markets, the distribution of wealth in the U.S., the influence of economic inequality on market instability, and role the economy would pla…

Tim Shorrock talked about the privatization of U.S. intelligence and the outsourcing of intelligence officers. He said that the majority of spies used by the U.S. were private contractors. H…

Brenda Cotto-Escalera and Dedrick Muhammad talked about the subprime mortgage crisis, calling it the the greatest loss of wealth for African Americans in modern history. They are the co-auth…

Foreign Policy In Focus Co-Director John Gershman and Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow James Carafano talked about the September 11 Commission’s findings and recommendations. They …

John Bolton, Undersecretary of State, talked about nuclear non-proliferation efforts and international arms control measures. Among the topics he addressed were weapons programs in Iran and …

The Institute for Policy Studies held a discussion on how the U.S. could end the war in Iraq and withdraw troops from the region. Among the topics they addressed were promises made about the…

A panel at the Institute for Policy Studies discussed the U.S. political system, its historical development, its current state, and its future. Marcus Raskin gave a historical overview o…

Author Greg Palast talked about the influence of energy industry interests in the Bush administration. He also talked about energy and infrastructure contracts for Iraq reconstruction and th…