by Jacob Siegel · 24 Mar 2026 · 348pp · 103,246 words
, the field attracted opportunists and people looking to capitalize on the cause (England’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, would eventually join the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder). Yet most anti-disinformation crusaders were not cynical opportunists or power-mad schemers. Following the social and career incentives of
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email or hacked information dump. Change the sense of newsworthiness to accord with the current threat.” In late June 2020, an influential NGO called the Aspen Institute held a “tabletop exercise” that instilled the lessons of the Stanford paper as a new collective mandate. Led by the former head of National Public
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, was fired by Donald Trump in November 2020 for challenging Trump’s assertions that the election had been stolen. Krebs went on to lead the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder along with co-chair Katie Couric and commissioners including Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. “notifying social media platforms” “DHS Needs
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Apple AR15 Arab Spring Aristotle Armour, Thomas P. “Army Surveillance of Civilians” (Senate committee report) ARPA. See Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPANET artificial intelligence (AI) Aspen Institute Assange, Julian “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections” Atlantic Council atom bomb attention spans Audacity of Hope, The (Obama) Auerbach, Jonathan authoritarianism
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two on the property). Little Nell HOTEL $$$ ( 970-920-4600; www.thelittlenell.com; 675 E Durant Ave; r from $545; ) This is a long-time Aspen institution at the foot of Aspen Mountain. Gas-burning fireplaces, high-thread-count linens and rich color schemes make up the elegant modernist decor. An adventure
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two on the property). Little Nell HOTEL $$$ ( 970-920-4600; www.thelittlenell.com; 675 E Durant Ave; r from $545; ) This is a long-time Aspen institution at the foot of Aspen Mountain. Gas-burning fireplaces, high-thread-count linens and rich color schemes make up the elegant modernist decor. An adventure
by Rupert Darwall · 2 Oct 2017 · 451pp · 115,720 words
, Ford, McArthur, and Pew—gave them the booty. Corporate and foundation wealth and power were handed to them on a plate. Already in 1962, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies had run a program on climate in the eleventh and sixteenth centuries—“the subject entailed an enquiry into the ways sharp climatic
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changes could affect the conditions of life on earth.”61 The Aspen Institute had been founded in 1949 as a celebration of humanism and German culture (1949 was the bicentenary of Goethe’s birth). After the death of
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convene, for the first time, a major conference on the environment. The proposal went forward. It would be held in Stockholm in June 1972. The Aspen Institute’s activities were then geared around the impending UN conference. Wilson established the Aspen Environment and Quality of Life Program. Leading environmentalists who appeared at
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New York, ending up with the International Chamber of Commerce formally pledging support for the UN program on the environment. At the conference itself, the Aspen Institute hosted a Distinguished Lecture Series financed by the International Population Institute. Speakers included Gunnar Myrdal, Barbara Ward, and the Club of Rome’s Aurelio Peccei
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Amnesty International Andropov, Yuri Antholis, William Anti-Nuclear Contact Book (1977) Apple, Inc. Arrhenius, Svante Nobel Prize for Chemistry recipient Asbeck, Frank Ash, Timothy Garton Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Aspen Environment and Quality of Life Program Association of German Industrial Energy Companies Associated Press Atlantic, The Atlantic Alliance Aust, Stefan Australian
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month, November has even better deals. Little Nell HOTEL $$$ ( 970-920-4600; www.thelittlenell.com; 675 E Durant Ave; r from $560; ) A long-time Aspen institution offering understated, updated elegance and class at the foot of Aspen Mountain. Gas-burning fireplaces, high-thread-count linens and rich color schemes make up
by Pam Grout · 14 May 2007 · 304pp · 87,702 words
, you can spend your days making photography and your evenings soaking up world-class performing arts. Aspen is home to the Aspen Music Festival, the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, the Aspen Center for Physics, Theatre Aspen, the Aspen Art Museum, the Aspen Filmfest, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, and on and
by Steven Brill · 28 May 2018 · 519pp · 155,332 words
, as brilliant innovators even as their work undermined the capacity of the country to produce economic security for average Americans. In a hallway at the Aspen Institute’s New York office there is a blowup of a New Yorker cartoon published in 2012. A man in a tattered suit and tie sits
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, the Bipartisan Policy Center, Better Markets, the Partnership for Public Service, the Coalition for Queens/Tech Equality, Year Up, Philip Howard’s Common Good, the Aspen Institute’s anti-short-termism American Prosperity Project—has seen a dramatic increase in support and in talent joining their cause. They are ready to step
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York Times, January 18, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/sunday/americas-great-working-class-colleges.html?_r=0. 3 CASINO COUNTRY Aspen Institute’s New York office: Visit to the office. “the disease of short-termism” and subsequent quotes: Interviews with Samuelson. “The social responsibility”: Milton Friedman, “A
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while building a law firm even more lucrative than Flom’s. Credit 7 This cartoon from The New Yorker hangs outside the office of the Aspen Institute’s Judith Samuelson, who has galvanized a group of business heavyweights to fight short-termism and the gospel that shareholder profits should be a corporation
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
to make change happen back in the U.S.” Another group that organizes trips with the foundation’s money (alongside many other projects) is the Aspen Institute, a Washington, DC, think tank and recipient of more than $100 million from Gates. This includes a 2007 charitable grant for $664,000 “to inform
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Hopkins University “to train U.S. journalists in covering global health and development issues by providing fellowships and reporting opportunities” and $165,000 to the Aspen Institute “to identify how journalism training can improve the quantity and quality of media coverage of health issues in the developing world.” A more liberal analysis
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failing to disclose their funding from the Gates Foundation. The foundation also found ways to elevate its message in front of Congress, like funding the Aspen Institute and the Postsecondary National Policy Institute to organize retreats for congressional staffers to learn about education policy. Gates’s multipronged political campaign worked—or seemed
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polio eradication.“To change hearts and minds, we need good stories,” the Gates Foundation reports. The Moth works hand in hand with the Gates-funded Aspen Institute’s New Voices Fellowship, which seeks to elevate these voices in the news. The group boasts having produced nearly 2,000 public op-eds from
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freely engage in similar travel activities with state legislators. Public records from the state of New York show that the Gates Foundation, working with the Aspen Institute, proposed to the state’s education department that it send “up to seven” people to Washington, DC, to discuss one of the foundation’s educational
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, Marcia Angelou, Maya Angola Aniston, Jennifer Annan, Kofi antibiotics antitrust Apollo Global Management Apple computers Appraising Microsoft Arjuna Capital Armstrong, Lance Arthun, Erika Asahi Shimbun Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship Associated Press AstraZeneca Atlantic Atuire, Caesar A. Au, Wayne Auletta, Ken Avahan Avanade Badass Teachers Association Baker, Dean Ballmer, Steve Bangladesh Bankman
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words
AI May Already Be Conscious,” The Byte, February 13, 2022, https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-already-sentient. “Technology & National Security: Maintaining America’s Edge”: Aspen Institute, January 31, 2019, https://www.amazon.com/Technology-National-Security-Maintaining-Americas/dp/0578427958. “And by 2025 you’re done”: Danzig ran across the analogy
by Michael Gross · 1 Nov 2011 · 613pp · 200,826 words
new medical sciences building. They donated $20 million for a Resnick Sustainability Institute to study energy technology at Caltech, and have given generously to the Aspen Institute.41 Less noisily, big money’s gone to Conservation International and Bard College, which runs a charter school, the Paramount Bard Academy, one of a
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. Department of Agriculture’s research service, which has studied navel orangeworms in pistachios. They also give their time. Lynda sits on the board of the Aspen Institute, where she chairs the Communications Committee; UCLA Medical Sciences; the Prostate Cancer Foundation; and the Milken Family Foundation. She is also a trustee of the
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resort communities, they were disdained by locals as part-time residents—and showy ones at that. Even after the couple made large donations to the Aspen Institute (along with the Aspen Skiing Corporation, one of the two tent-pole institutions in the former mining town) and Lynda was named to the board
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standards.” After their suit was rejected, the Resnicks continued to maneuver to delay construction and the imbroglio came up again three years later when the Aspen Institute announced plans to renovate an auditorium on its campus and name it for the Resnicks. Previously, it and the building around it had been named
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