In 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Brooke Gladstone, host and Managing Editor of WNYC’s On the Media about the US’ changing media landscape, and how we can teach the next generation to be better media consumers.

If people are getting inaccurate information they cannot make informed decisions in democracies.

Award-winning science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson discusses the political economy needed to cope with climate change with Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Professor Olivier Blanchard, former Chief Economist at the IMF, explores how current global instability poses a challenge to economic wellbeing.

Our panel explore some of the issues coming to the fore in this bumper year for politics as well as their implications.

On the first day of voting in the elections, our panel discuss Eurosceptic parties, climate change, migration and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and more.

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Baroness Beeban Kidron explores the issues around AI and why it must not be left to tech experts and unaccountable corporations.

Our panel explore how we can overcome social division and create a more cohesive society.

In the recent years, more and more right-wing parties have appeared in politics in European countries and across the world.