Journalist Amanda Little talks with food innovator Uma Valeti at Aspen Ideas: Health. Valeti is growing meat from cell cultures.   “Climate change is becoming something we can taste,” says Amanda Little, author of The Fate of Food. Every decade going forward, she says, we’ll see a …

Kevin Love, professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers, is helping to normalize the conversation around mental health in the NBA.   It was just after half-time during a home game that Kevin Love, a power-forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers, had a panic attack. “I fe…

David Leonhardt, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin talk about the Green New Deal. Gunn-Wright is policy director for New Consensus.   Rhiana Gunn-Wright grew up on Chicago’s South Side and suffered from asthma as a child. She suspects it’s because she lived near a power p…

Nicholas Thompson, Jeh Johnson, Katie Harbath, and Douglas Lute discuss potential online threats to the 2020 US election.   With just five months until primary season ramps up in the United States, what’s being done to ensure bad actors don’t attack our elections? In 2016, Russia u…

Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and professor at NYU Stern School of Business. She says we’re facing existential uncertainty as AI gets more entrenched in our lives.   Artificial intelligence technologies are ravenous for data — the more data they can gather, the more effective…

Gita Gopinath, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, says the global economy is experiencing a delicate moment with tremendous policy uncertainty.   As the US and China continue their trade war, economic instability is rising in countries around the world. Gita Gopina…

Chip Bergh, president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co., says his company is committed to driving profits through principles.   More and more, companies are embracing the concept of corporate purpose, but are they actually walking the talk? Chip Bergh, CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.…

Mary Louise Kelly, George Packer, and Williams Burns discuss why the presidential candidates should be paying attention to America's changing role in the world.   How important is it that the candidates running for US president have foreign policy experience? “Judgement and charact…

In his reporting, Texas-based journalist Julián Aguilar focuses on immigration reform and enforcement, politics, international trade, border security, and the drug trade.   Is the relationship between the United States and Mexico on shaky ground? This year, President Trump threaten…

Rhiana Gunn-Wright is policy director for New Consensus, an organization developing and promoting the Green New Deal.   America’s divisions can be blamed on a myriad of problems ranging from the bubble culture of social media to geography: north versus south, coasts versus middle A…

IDEAS | LEADERSHIP | ACTION Ideas That Shape Our LivesHighlights From the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival “We can defend as best as we can, but our government is the one that has the tools to apply pressure to Russia, not us,” said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the 2019 Aspen I…

Jennifer Eberhardt is a social psychologist at Stanford who researches race and inequality.   There are many species of great ideas. The objectively perfect great idea, though, is one that (1) seems simultaneously novel and brilliant when first considered, and then (2) seems so obv…