Ideas Festival

California is the fifth state to allow an end of life choice. The blog below was first published in September 2015. When California...

Paula Johnson speaks with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at Spotlight Health 2015Today marks International Women’s Day, where women’s social, economic, cultural, and political achievements are celebrated. Even with many accomplishments, more progress for women is badly needed in areas grappling with violence against women.Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, undersecretary general for the UN and executive director of UN...

Average life expectancy in the developed world is on a fast track to reaching 100 years old, but more and more older people are living in societies that have been built around youth. At the Spotlight Health portion of the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival, Laura Carstensen, founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, explained the current longevity phenomenon, and discussed how we can restructure our culture to...

Grover Norquist, Michael Gerson, Jim Wallis, Heather McGhee, David Frum, Angela Glover Blackwell, and Ronald Brownstein discuss inequality and the 2016 presidential race at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The issue of rising inequality has been meriting more attention during the 2016 presidential campaign than in past elections. And for good reason — poll after poll shows that Americans are greatly concerned about not...