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Danielle Allen
An ethical plan for ending the pandemic and restarting the economy
15:58
Nisha Anand
The radical act of choosing common ground
5:14
Jay Van Bavel
Do politics make us irrational?
9:56
Johanna Figueira
Simple, effective tech to connect communities in crisis
5:07
Lisa Janae Bacon
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
14:11
H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
How women will lead us to freedom, justice and peace
12:49
Kade Crockford
What you need to know about face surveillance
23:46
John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson
The fight for civil rights and freedom
14:08
Max Rashbrooke
3 ways to upgrade democracy for the 21st century
4:34
Chip Berlet
Are the Illuminati real?
5:27
Densho
Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps
10:47
Wanjira Mathai
3 ways to uproot a culture of corruption
8:14
Kristen Wenz
What if a single human right could change the world?
14:49
Luis H. Zayas
The psychological impact of child separation at the US-Mexico border
14:03
Erika Pinheiro
What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better
10:56
David J. Bier
How guest worker visas could transform the US immigration system
17:23
Will Hurd
A wall won't solve America's border problems
5:09
Iseult Gillespie
The secret student resistance to Hitler
14:29
Tshering Tobgay
An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole"
15:52
Margaret Heffernan
The human skills we need in an unpredictable world
13:53
Anna Piperal
What a digital government looks like
4:04
Janelle Peters
How Romans flooded the Colosseum for sea battles
1:49
William Butler Yeats
"The Second Coming"
17:25
Michael Tubbs
The political power of being a good neighbor
17:53
Kishore Mahbubani
How the West can adapt to a rising Asia
6:04
Matt Cutts
What happens when a Silicon Valley technologist works for the government
14:33
Eric Liu
How to revive your belief in democracy
16:13
Julius Maada Bio
A vision for the future of Sierra Leone
13:50
Julie Cordua
How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet
15:15
Carole Cadwalladr
Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy
10:55
Melanie Nezer
The fundamental right to seek asylum
5:02
Lillian Faderman
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
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Halla Tómasdóttir and Bryn Freedman
The crisis of leadership -- and a new way forward
12:38
Stacey Abrams
3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do
17:04
Cecile Richards
The political progress women have made -- and what's next
11:29
Tiana Epps-Johnson
What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century
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