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The New Generation Voices Video Series
In the New Generation Voices series, the Bertelsmann Foundation in partnership with Humanity in Action Germany has created a collection of digital animations portraying how young Germans and Americans see common global challenges and how the future can be shaped best by working together.
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How to Fix Democracy with Adam Hochschild
The first episode of Season 5 features Adam Hochschild - historian, journalist, and award-winning author of “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis." Hochschild takes us on a journey to America in the aftermath of World War I – a country divided by labor strife, xenophobic fear of immigrants, and massive violations of civil rights.
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Interview with Humanity in Action Founder Dr. Judith Goldstein
In March 2023, we spoke with Humanity in Action Founder Judith Goldstein in New York about her 26 years leading the organization, Humanity in Action's place in the democracy and human rights movement, and what she hopes to see Humanity in Action accomplish as it moves into the future.
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How to Fix Democracy with Michael Thorning
Season 4, Episode 10 of How to Fix Democracy features Michael Thorning, Director of Governance at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In this episode, he joins host Andrew Keen to discuss the implications for the current and upcoming voting rights legislation, as well as the need for bipartisanship in order to defend democracy in the United States.
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How to Fix Democracy with Dana Milbank
Season 4, Episode 9 of How to Fix Democracy features Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, who joins host Andrew Keen to discuss the new voices of the Republican Party, how they came to power, and whether or not the party will be forced to change.
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How to Fix Democracy with Darrell M. West
Season 4, Episode 8 of How to Fix Democracy features Darrell M. West, the Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He joins host Andrew Keen to discuss how Trumpism came to be, and how it is influencing the structures of American democracy.
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How to Fix Democracy with Dahlia Lithwick
Season 4, Episode 7 of How To Fix Democracy titled "The legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court" features Dahlia Lithwick, lawyer and author of "Lady Justice," who with host Andrew Keen discusses the recent sharp decline of popularity of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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How to Fix Democracy with Katherine Stewart
Season 4 Episode 6 titled "Religion and American Conservatism" features Katherine Stewart, the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, who has spent her career reporting on the dwindling separation between church and state in the United States.
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How to Fix Democracy with Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Season 4 Episode 5 titled "The Health of American Democracy" features Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL), and author of "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right," who has focused her research on these issues and how our society can overcome them.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.