The Fed, Inflation, and Economic Growth

The Fed, Inflation, and the Economy

with

Alan Blinder

Thursday, October 13, 2022

5:00 PM 6:00 PM

As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to combat the highest inflation in 40 years, the United States falling into a recession is becoming an increasing concern for people. Increased inflation, the pandemic, supply shocks and global uncertainty from the war in Ukraine are threatening economic growth in America and could have long lasting effects.
Alan Blinder, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, says he foresees a downturn coming next year. He reminds us of the rise in inflation in the 1970’s and the serious recession followed. Are we headed for a repeat performance? Or can this be avoided? Join The Common Good to find out.

About the Speakers:

Alan Blinder is an esteemed professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Blinder served as a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers and then as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1993–1996.

Blinder has written scores of scholarly articles, and authored or co-authored 21 books, including the best-seller After the Music Stopped and Advice and Dissent. His latest book, A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021 comes out in October.

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No Red Lights with Alan Patricof

Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past fifty years of the industry in his new book, No Red Lights. Patricof has helped countless entrepreneurs realize their visions through capital, connections, and counsel. He has backed household names like Audible, AOL, and Apple leaving his mark in business, politics, media, and philanthropy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Alan Patricof is the founder and managing director of Greycroft. A longtime innovator and advocate for venture capital, Alan entered the industry in its formative days with the creation of Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc., a predecessor to Apax Partners – today, one of the world’s leading private equity firms with $41 billion under management. He stepped back from the daily administration and operational aspects of Apax Partners, LP in 2004 to concentrate on a group of small venture deals on its behalf. Alan is active in the New York and Washington communities. He is currently a board member of the Finance Committee of Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem and the Board of Overseers of Columbia School of Business. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  In his new book, No Red Lights, he shares a useful roadmap for building a life and career that is successful, interesting, and fulfilling.

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Trouble in Paradise: The FBI's Search on Mar-a-Lago

Trouble in Paradise:

The FBI Search on Mar a Lago

with Jeh Johnson and Mike Morell with moderator Patricia Duff

Thursday, September 1, 2022  5:00-6:00 pm EST

The secrets of Mar-a-Lago:  What’s at stake with the classified government documents retrieved in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago?  Has our national security been jeopardized?  Are our assets in the field at risk?

The Common Good Presents an important virtual briefing with two experts from the very top of their agencies, former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and former acting Director of the CIA Mike Morell. Aired Thursday, September 1st at 5:00 pm EST. 

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Jeh Johnson - Jeh Charles Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security, is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department and a member of the Firm’s Management and Partnership Committees. Secretary Johnson advises clients, including management teams and boards of directors, on crisis management, government and internal investigations, high-stakes litigation and regulatory matters, and legal aspects of cybersecurity and other security matters. He is also an experienced trial lawyer, and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Secretary Johnson is on the board of directors of Lockheed Martin. Since leaving government in January 2017, Secretary Johnson has been called upon to testify before Congress on cybersecurity matters three times, and is a regular commentator on national and homeland security on ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN and numerous other outlets. He was the 2018 recipient of the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award, presented at the Reagan Presidential Library and currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board. You can read more about Johnson here.

Mike Morell - Michael Joseph Morell is the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the C.I.A. He worked in the C.I.A. for 33 years. Morell has received multiple awards including the CIA’s highest ranking award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. He is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, West Point’s Center on Combating Terrorism, and the Madison Policy Forum. Morell has served as a member of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, and is currently Senior Counselor and the Global Chairman of the Geo-Political Risk Practice at Beacon Global Strategies LLC.

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Hazards Ahead: How the New Supreme Court Will Impact America?

Hazards Ahead: How Will the New Supreme Court Change America?

with 

with Jeffrey Toobin, Jennifer Rubin, and Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 5:00-6:00 PM EST

We are thrilled to host Supreme Court expert Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and Washington Post political columnist, Jennifer Rubin, with our moderator, attorney and reporter, Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Recent Supreme Court decisions have upended the legal, political, and cultural landscape - and more dramatic change is certainly ahead. Join our TCG panel as they discuss the vast potential impact of this new court on privacy, personal freedoms, government regulation, reproductive rights, the environment, gun control, access to voting, and other charged issues.

Jennifer Rubin is a lawyer, political commentator and columnist for the Washington Post, Rubin is the author of “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump.” Rubin was long known as a conservative political commentator but switched in recent years and become an advocate for moderate Democrats. Her blog at the post, “The Right Turn,” has been called a “must read” for political watchers. Most recently she has been a critic of the Supreme Court on her blog, specifically regarding the partisanship of the Supreme Court.

Jeffrey Toobin is the chief legal analyst for CNN and has also worked at the New Yorker from 1993 to 2020. Toobin’s expertise on the Supreme Court stems from having reported and written about it extensively, including writing two books about the Court, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court,” and “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” Before becoming a journalist, Toobin served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a Lawyer and senior opinion writer at The Boston Globe. Stohr is also an MSNBC contributor. She has served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of CSPAN’s morning call-in show “Washington Journal,” and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and it’s sister publications. Previously, Stohr was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston.

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NAVALNY Screening and Discussion

Saturday, July 23, 2022

5:00 PM  9:00 PM

Regal UA East Hampton

Hamptons, NY United States

NAVALNY

 Screening and Discussion

with 

Alec Baldwin and Daniel Roher

Regal UA East Hampton, Saturday, July 23rd, 2022

5:00-9:00 PM EST

The gripping CNN film, “Navalny”, follows Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, through his political rise as rival to Vladimir Putin, the attempted assassination against him and the search to uncover the truth. 

The documentary interweaves interviews with Navalny, Navalny’s wife and children, and eyewitnesses to key events. It then follows the suspenseful recap of Navalny’s post-recovery return to Russia and his arrest. Navalny now sits in a Russian prison cell with no release in sight. 

The New York Times says this documentary “has assembled a tense and absorbing look at Navalny and his inner circle” and this might be the last time we get to see him for many years. Maybe ever.

Join The Common Good and the Hamptons International Film Festival on July 23rd.

Produced in partnership with the Hamptons International Film Festival

Rights After Roe v. Wade

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

5:00 PM 6:00 PM

Fate of Roe v. Wade

with

Brenda Feigen, Dr. Wendy Chavkin, Carol Sanger and Rebecca Tong

Moderated by Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Wednesday, June 29th, 2022, 5:00-6:00 pm ET

Many in the country were sent into a panic in recent weeks when a draft opinion on the case involving Roe v. Wade, written by conservative Justice Alito, was leaked to the public with the conclusion that the Constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The final decision from the Supreme Court is expected any day now. Will this 49 year old ruling be thrown away? Such a decision will have major consequences for the U.S. What are the many complications and impacts for the women in states if abortion becomes illegal?

Join The Common Good to find out.

About the Speakers:

Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer at The Boston Globe. She is also an MSNBC contributor. Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston. Previously, Kimberly was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. She has also served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of C-SPAN’s morning call-in show “Washington Journal,” and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and its sister publications. She has appeared as a political commentator on a host of national and international television and radio networks.

Brenda Feigen is a renowned feminist activist, film producer, and attorney who was one of the key figures of the feminist movement of the 1970’s and 80’s. She fought sexism at Harvard, worked on passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, coordinated the Senate testimony for the Equal Rights Amendment with Gloria Steinem, and testified herself. In 1972, Feigen left private practice, and she, Steinem, and Catherine Samuels founded The Women's Action Alliance which founded Ms. Magazine. In 1972, Feigen joined Ruth Bader Ginsburg in co-directing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)'s newly formed Women's Rights Project (WRP). An interview with Feigen about this work is featured in the 2018 documentary RBG.

Carol Sanger writes and teaches courses on contracts, family law, the legal profession, and law and gender. Her most recent book, About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in the 21st Century, addresses the regulation of abortion and maternal conduct, surrogacy, and the law’s relation to culture. Since joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 1996, Sanger has been recognized for her dedication to students and teaching: She has received the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Columbia University’s Presidential Teaching Award, Social Justice Initiatives’ Outstanding Public Interest Faculty Member of the Year, and the Columbia Law Women’s Association’s Myra Bradwell Award for her commitment to mentoring female law students.

Rebecca Tong, Co-Executive Director of Trust Women, joined in 2013, after three years of organizing and directing grassroots political campaigns. Her experience in fundraising and legislative advocacy helped Trust Women to build a robust development department, with an emphasis on major giving and donor retention. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in Political Science. After a brief hiatus in 2020 as Development Officer for The Land Institute, she returned to Trust Women to pursue her passion for reproductive justice and health issues. 

Dr. Wendy Chavkin is co-founder of Global Doctors for Choice and previously served as the chair to the Board of Directors of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health. In 2004-2005 she was a Fulbright New Century Scholar for her research on Fertility Decline and the Empowerment of Women, from 1994 to 2002 she was editor-in-chief of The Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, and from 1984 to 1988, the director of The Bureau of Maternity Services and Family Planning in New York City's Department of Health. She has written extensively about women's reproductive health issues, including the consequences of welfare reform for the health of women and children, HIV and illegal drug use in pregnancy, policy responses to declining birthrates, and conscientious objection to providing reproductive health care. She has received numerous awards from public health organizations for advocacy including the Jean Pakter and Allan Rosenfield awards.

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Saving Democracy

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

5:00 PM 6:00 PM

Saving Democracy

with

Yascha Mounk

Moderated by Richard Wolffe

Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 5:00-6:00 pm ET

 In recent years the fragility of our democracy has been exposed. Founded to offer both freedom and rights, this form of governance is precious. But it’s permanence cannot be taken for granted.  

How do we preserve our democracy in the face of the many threats and challenges before us?   

Join us in a conversation with one of the world’s leading experts on the crisis of liberal democracy, Yascha Mounk. With his brilliant insights, many that run counter to conventional wisdom, Mounk offers an optimistic set of ideas and proposals for how our democracies can endure and thrive in spite of our differences. 

About the Speakers:

Yascha Mounk is one of the world’s leading experts on democracy and the rise of populism. His latest book is The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, on how democracies can succeed.  TCG hosted Mounk for his last book, The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is In Danger and How to Save It, which was translated into ten languages and recognized as a “Best Book of 2018” by the Financial Times and other publications. He is an Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the founder of Persuasion, and the host of The Good Fight podcast.

Richard Wolffe is an award-winning journalist and political analyst for MSNBC television, appearing frequently on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Hardball with Chris Matthews. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. Before Newsweek, Wolffe was a senior journalist at the Financial Times, serving as its deputy bureau chief and US diplomatic correspondent. Wolffe is the author of the New York Times bestseller Renegade: The Making of a President and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. He currently writes a twice-weekly column for the Guardian.

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Cancel Culture and Free Speech

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Cancel Culture and Free Speech

How do we have accountability without putting a chill on free speech and intellectual freedom?

with

Suzanne Nossel, Daniel Kovalik, and David Lat with Tim Miller moderating

Wednesday, May 25th, 2022

5:00pm ET

Should cancel culture be cancelled? Maybe it’s time to think about it, according to the New York Times.

Both the political left and the right are caught in a destructive loop of condemnation and clarification around “cancel culture.”

Polls show many Americans are confused as to what they can say, and it’s damaging free speech and open debate. Join us for this spirited conversation on Wednesday, May 25th, 5:00pm-6:00pm ET.

About the Speakers:

Tim Miller is an MSNBC analyst, writer-at-large at The Bulwark, and the host of “Not My Party” on Snapchat. He recently wrote an article on this topic titled “Let's Talk about Cancelling.” Tim was communications director for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign and spokesman for the Republican National Committee during Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. He has since left the GOP and become one of the leaders of the “Never Trump” movement. He lives in Oakland, CA with his husband and daughter. He has written on politics and culture for Rolling Stone, The Ringer, Playboy, and The Daily Beast.

Suzanne Nossel is a leading voice on free expression issues in the US and globally, currently serving as the CEO of PEN America, one of the most important organizations in the world that works to defend and celebrate free expression. Her roots in defending free speech and human rights run deep. She has served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. Nossel also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations for Obama. During the Clinton Administration, Nossel was Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador for UN Management and Reform at the United Nations. During her corporate career, Nossel served as Vice President of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsmann and as Vice President for Strategy and Operations for the Wall Street Journal. Nossel published a book on freedom of speech, Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All in 2020.

Daniel Kovalik is a human rights and labor rights lawyer whose most recent book, Cancel This Book The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture discusses the cancel culture phenomenon that is sweeping the country. He served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019 where he worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and the Project Censored Award. He is the author of several books and has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy.

David Lat is a lawyer and former federal prosecutor who now publishes Original Jurisdiction, about law and legal affairs. Lat recently stepped into the cancel culture controversy with an article about a protest at Yale Law School. Lat founded Above the Law, one of the nation's most widely read legal news websites, and Underneath Their Robes, a popular blog about federal judges.. He contributes often to newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Before entering the media world, David worked as a federal prosecutor; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton; and law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. David graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

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Hate and Extremism

Hate and Extremism

with 

S.E. Cupp, Andy Campbell and Christian Picciolini

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022

5:00 pm ET

Overt expressions of hatred and extremism have surged across the US in recent years. 

Anti-semitism, racism, and extremist groups that incite insidious forms of intolerance can destroy society, taking root as quiet prejudices and mutating over time into horrific acts of violence and brutality - all dangerously amplified on social media as bigotry, misogyny, and conspiracy theories.  

How can we strike back against hate?

About the Speakers:

MODERATOR: S.E. Cupp is a CNN political commentator, often for special political coverage, who has been dubbed a practical conservative. Among her credits, Cupp hosted CNN's SE Cupp Unfiltered, covering the white-hot intersection of politics and media; led a panel-driven show on HLN that debated contemporary issues impacting the country; was the host of S.E. Cupp's Outside With Insiders, a digital series on CNN.com; co-hosted "Crossfire" on CNN, the relaunched political debate program with panelists Newt Gingrich, Stephanie Cutter and Van Jones.; and co-hosted MSNBC's roundtable show, The Cycle. Cupp is also a nationally syndicated political columnist, culture critic, author and consultant. Cupp penned "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity" and co-authored "Why You're Wrong About the Right" with Brett Joshpe.

Andy Campbell is an investigative reporter and editor covering extremism, misinformation, and their intersection with national politics. He is currently based in New York, where he works on the breaking news desk at HuffPost. He is considered an expert on American extremism, having covered the modern rise of the far-right at the ground level, including the neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. His work is regularly cited in scientific studies and scholarly papers, and featured on network cable news and radio. Previously, he worked for The Brooklyn Paper and New York Post. He is the author of "We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism," coming 10/4/2. Preorder here.

Christian Picciolini is an anti-racism advocate and a former extremist who has spoken widely on how to prevent and counter extremism. He left the hate movement that he helped create during the 1980s and 90s, to make amends and rebuild his life. He became an award-winning television producer, public speaker, and author. In 2016, he won an Emmy Award for the anti-hate advertising campaign aimed at helping people disengage from extremism. Christian chronicles his involvement in and exit from the early American white-supremacist skinhead movement in his memoir, White American Youth. He showcased his disengagement work in a second book, Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism, as well as in the MSNBC documentary series 'Breaking Hate,” which aired in 2018-2019. He is the host of the 'F*** YOUR RACIST HISTORY' podcast.He founded the Goldmill Group, a counter-extremism consulting and digital media firm. Order here.

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The American Political Landscape: What Happened to the Center

Thursday, April 14, 2022

5:00 PM 6:00 PM

The American Political Landscape: 

What Happened to the Center?

with

Matt Bennett, Elaine Kamarck, and William A. Galston

Thursday, April 14th, 2022

5:00-6:00 pm ET

 The US has become more splintered along left-right lines than almost any time in its history.  Instead of joining the traditional parties, more voters than ever are opting to become independents - eschewing the parties that no longer fit their views.  

The Republican Party has already seen a hard split with more extreme views entering its mainstream and fewer moderate leaders in office.  Is the same phenomenon occurring in the Democratic Party?  

Are the parties falling to more radical elements - or simply reflecting their most engaged voters who actively demand major change?  Was the election victory of Joe Biden an attempt to return to the middle? 

Join The Common Good for a discussion on “What happened to the Center”  on April 14th to find out.

About the Speaker:

Matt Bennett has journeyed from the campaign trail to the White House, and from the pages of The New York Times to appearances on Meet the Press and 60 Minutes. He worked on both of the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, his political hero. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Clinton White House, where he was the principal White House liaison to governors and covered issues ranging from disaster response to Medicaid to immigration. Prior to that, Matt traveled with Vice President Al Gore on his White House staff. He was Director of Communications for Wesley Clark's presidential campaign in 2004, and from 2001-2004 he was Director of Public Affairs for Americans for Gun Safety.

In 2005, Matt joined his three fellow co-founders in establishing the Third Way, believing that there is a tremendous need for fresh thinking and moderate ideas in a time of extreme political immoderation. Matt loves coming to work every day to take on the big questions our country faces with some of the people he respects most in the world. He considers helping to extend marriage equality to gays and lesbians one of Third Way's proudest achievements so far.
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The Gen Z impact

About The Event

We are thrilled to have the dynamic We are thrilled to have John Della Volpe, the dynamic Director of Polling at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, and a top authority on understanding American youth, together with two young and inspiring leading voices of Gen Z: Santiago Mayer, political strategist and Executive Director of Voters of Tomorrow, and Jing-Jing Shen, a Harvard student studying Chemistry and Government and 2021 Chair of the Harvard Public Opinion Project. Our discussion will be led by another national expert on youth, David Burstein, the CEO & Co-Founder of Run for America.

The Washington Post has referred to John Della Volpe as one of the world’s leading authorities on global opinion and influence among young people, especially Millennials. We’ll discuss their anger at the serious problems being left them, their aspirations, and how to harness their passions to create the change we need moving forward.

Coming of age at a moment of division and disinformation, these teenagers and college students have organized around issues that impact their daily lives, from gun control to climate change to racial justice. Our youngest citizens are the most diverse and most educated in history, making them more connected to the world around them than ever before - and they are not afraid to disrupt the status quo. How do they engage in our democracy? What are the issues that will drive their actions and their vote?

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Biden: Year One

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We are thrilled to have former presidential advisor David Gergen, a political analyst from the Atlantic Ron Brownstein, former GOP communications director Tara Setmayer, and Time magazine’s national political correspondent Molly Ball, join us for an important look back at Joe Biden’s first year as president, examining the successes and failures, low points and the highlights of the administration so far. Our expert panel will discuss how America has changed under President Biden, and share their thoughts on what is to come in 2022 and beyond.

What are we likely to see from the next 3 years of the Biden Presidency? What is the outlook for 2022? Join The Common Good for a smart and substantive discussion about how Biden is doing, how it fits in the historical context, and how he can do better.

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Meet and Greet with Huma Abedin

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Huma Abedin has led an extraordinary life and career that has spanned positions at the White House, the Senate, and the State Department as a top aide, advisor, and close confidant to former Secretary of State, US Senator, and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Although Abedin has strived to stay out of the public eye, her recent best-selling memoir Both/And shares a poignant narrative of her family background and childhood in Saudi Arabia, her tumultuous marriage to political figure Anthony Weiner, and her work for stateswoman and candidate Clinton, that led her to serve as vice-chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for President of the United States and deputy chief of staff to Clinton when she was U.S. Secretary of State, among other important roles.

Finally sharing her experiences and lessons after decades as an extremely private but elite insider in the world of politics and policy, Abedin joins The Common Good for an exclusive, members-only in-person event hosted and moderated by legendary venture capitalist Alan Patricof.

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Financial Forecast 2022 with Byron Wien and Joe Zidle

About The Event

Byron Wien, Vice Chairman of Blackstone, and Joe Zidle, Managing Director and the Chief Investment Strategist at Blackstone, return together for an important and timely conversation on the economy, the markets, and political and international events that may affect your portfolio, your business or simply your peace of mind.

These renowned experts join us for a special forecast examining many of the unusual factors of 2022, including growing political division, the ongoing impact of Covid, and a reckoning with America’s low-wage workers.

Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.

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Byron Wien: Known as "the most widely read analyst on Wall Street," "the No. 1 strategist by SmartMoney.com based on his market calls." and was named to the Smart Money Power 30 list of Wall Street’s most influential investors, thinkers, enforcers, policymakers, players and market movers. Byron Wien is Vice Chairman of Blackstone’s Private Wealth Solutions group where he acts as a senior adviser to both the Firm and its clients in analyzing economic, social, and political trends to assess the direction of financial markets and thus help guide investment and strategic decisions. He has been e was also named by New York Magazine as one of the sixteen most influential people on Wall Street. He previously served as Chief Investment Strategist for Pequot Capital and before that served for 21 years as Chief (later Senior) U.S. Investment Strategist at Morgan Stanley.

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Joe Zidle is a Managing Director and the Chief Investment Strategist in the Private Wealth Solutions group. He has been on CNBC and is known for his ability to spot trends in reams of data. He previously spent nearly a decade at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, most recently serving as Head of Investment Strategy for Global Wealth Management and Deputy Director of the Research Investment Committee, where he was responsible for creating and communicating global investment strategies to the firm's private client division across all major investment disciplines. He was also with Richard Bernstein Advisors, as an independent investment advisor, where he was responsible for portfolio strategy, asset allocation, investment management and marketing to major wealth management firms and independent RIAs.

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Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital. Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman, LLC in 2001. Earlier, he was a vice president in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co. In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In November 2016, he was named to President-Elect Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. In June 2017, he was named the Chief Strategy Officer of the EXIM Bank. He served as the White House Communications Director for a period in July 2017. Scaramucci is the author of four books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole (a 2016 Wall Street Journal best seller), and Trump: The Blue-Collar President.

Kati Marton: The Chancellor

About The Event

Kati Marton, an acclaimed journalist and author The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, joins The Common Good to discuss the incredible and enduring legacy of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Moderated by former US Ambassador to Germany, John Emerson. This definitive biography details the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.

The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider—a research chemist and pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany—who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West.

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Kati Marton is an acclaimed journalist and author, as well as an activist advocate for human rights and the freedom of the press. She is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News Correspondent, the former chairwoman of the International Women’s Health Commission, a director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Marton has published eight books, which have been translated into five languages. Her Cold War Memoir Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America was a National Book Critics Circle finalist in 2009.

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John Emerson is currently the Vice Chairman of Capital International, Inc., following a four year leave to serve as US Ambassador to Germany. Serving as United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 2013 through 2017, Emerson was Chief of Mission Germany, which includes the operation and activities of the Embassy, five consulates and nearly 2,000 employees, as well as coordinating with the U.S. military command in Germany. He interacted with the highest levels of the U.S. and German governments, as well as with the EU and NATO leaderships.

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Gamechanger? Russia’s Growing Aggressiveness with Fiona Hill

About The Event

Russia has been amassing troops on the border with Ukraine, threatening a massive invasion. NATO and EU nations have threatened severe economic sanctions, and have moved troops and weapons into Ukraine to help the fledgling democracy's defense. Will we see the outbreak of war in Europe? What will the effect be for the United States and our allies?

Dr. Fiona Hill, former Senior Director for Europe and Russia at the United States National Security Council, is a leading expert on Russia and international affairs. She will discuss recent developments with Russia, Kazakhstan , and Ukraine as well as her excellent book There’s Nothing For You Here.

Moderated by Mary Boies.

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Dr. Fiona Hill is a leading expert on modern Russia, a guardian of U.S. security through smart diplomacy, and a powerful advocate for the principled approach to public service. Risking her career and reputation, she offered her nonpartisan testimony about the president's actions in Ukraine.

Her new book There is Nothing For You Here, describes how declining opportunity has set America on a grim path. She is a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. From 2006 to 2009, she served as a national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council. She is co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin”.

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Mary Boies has held major roles in law, business, NGOs, and government. She is Counsel to Boies Schiller Flexner LLP where she specializes in antitrust and corporate commercial litigation. She has served as Vice President at CBS Inc., General Counsel of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, Assistant Director of the Domestic Policy Staff at the White House, and Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce.

She is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on its Board of Directors and chaired its Committee on Nominations and Governance.

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Kissinger in the Middle East - Lessons in Diplomacy

About The Event

Palestinians, though three presidents have tried and failed.

To understand the role of American diplomacy in the Middle East, Ambassador Martin Indyk returned to the origins of America-led peace efforts and the man who created the Middle East peace process - Henry Kissinger. Based on his research into American and Israeli archives, interviews with Kissinger, and his own years of experience as the US ambassador to Israel, Indyk’s new book, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, offers the key to securing stability, and with that, peace in the Middle East.

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Martin S. Indyk is a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was the John C. Whitehead Distinguished Fellow in International Diplomacy in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Indyk served as the U.S. special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations from July 2013 to June 2014. Prior to his time as special envoy, he was vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program and a senior fellow and the founding director of the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.

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Robert Hormats has served five U.S. presidential administrations, including as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative with the rank of Ambassador, and Senior Economic advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security Council staff in the White House. He served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment with Secretary Clinton His experience in the financial sector includes 25 years at Goldman Sachs (International) rising to the level of Vice Chairman.

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January 6 Attack on the Capital One Year Later

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On January 6, 2021, our nation watched in shock as a group of rioters stormed the US Capitol, intent on disrupting the joint session of Congress assembled to count electoral votes and formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

What have we learned about this unprecedented event in American history? The investigation is still ongoing but much has been uncovered about how it was planned, the people who carried it out, and some of the leaders involved in the attempt to stop the peaceful transition of power.

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Congressman Adam Schiff has emerged as one of the most consequential members with leadership on many major issues. He now serves on the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol tasked with discovering the fact, circumstances, and causes of the attack.

He is widely respected as a leader on national security and foreign policy especially for his role as Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He has worked to harden our defenses against foreign interference in our elections.

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Congresswoman Madeleine Dean is a highly respected member and thought leader in the House. She served as one of the impeachment managers in the second trial against Donald Trump just weeks after she sat in the House gallery as protesters attempted to break into the chamber.

Prior to serving in Congress, Dean opened her own legal practice and taught writing and ethics at La Salle University. First elected to represent Pennsylvania’s 4th district in 2018, she has become known for her work fighting gun violence.

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Congresswoman Jane Harman is President Emerita of the Wilson Center, one of the world’s most highly regarded think tanks, and a former long-time member of Congress who served on the House Intelligence Committee and the Homeland Security Committee's intelligence subcommittee. She is an internationally recognized authority on U.S. and global security issues, foreign relations, and lawmaking. Harman is also the author of the recent book Insanity Defense which chronicles how four administrations have failed to confront some of the toughest national security policy issues and what we can do to keep the nation safe.

The Future of News in a Post-Truth World

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The ubiquity of social media has also brought the explosive spread of false ‘facts’ and increased distrust in traditional news — so much so that disinformation, especially combined with strong partisan feeling, has become an existential threat to our democracy.

Political beliefs now determine not only the candidates you choose to support, but also the facts you will accept; and the media you consume influences not only the opinions you will hear, but also the truths you will believe.
Can the government take action to regulate misinformation without impinging on the right to free speech? Can we hold social media companies to account for the devastating impact of their algorithmic news feeds? To what degree, if at all, should immunity continue to exist for internet companies? What does the future of news look like when we cannot agree on a common truth?

Join The Common Good to explore how we can save truth, free speech, and the news, in conversation with an incredible group of experts including former Congressman David Jolly, former Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow, and former Chairman of the FCC Newton Minow. This panel will be moderated by Rick Salomon. 

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Former Congressman David Jolly served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2014 – 2017. Known for his fierce independent streak and bipartisan approach, Jolly has held virtually every position in Congress, from intern to Member, and has worked outside the Congress as an attorney and political consultant, as well as in specialty finance. Today, Jolly serves as Chairman of the Serve America Movement and can often be seen as a policy and politics analyst on MSNBC and NBC. Jolly's work has been published in Time, USA Today, Roll Call, the Washington Post, and CNN.com, among many other news sources. Renouncing his affiliation several years ago with the Republican Party, Jolly is now an Independent.

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Martha Minow is an expert on Constitutional Law, the former Dean of Harvard Law School, and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University.  She writes and teaches about digital communications, democracy, privatization, military justice, and ethnic and religious conflict, and is an expert in human rights and advocacy for racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities. Her newest book, Saving The News, offers a detailed argument of how our government has interfered in America's media landscape and charts a path for reform.

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Newton Minow is a pioneer in broadcasting, and a former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission with over five decades of experience in all aspects of the communication industry. He was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, and the Woodrow Wilson Award for public service. He has served on the Boards of Encyclopedia Britannica, the Chicago Tribune, the RAND Corporation, CBS Corporation, the Commission on Presidential Debates, and many more. In his speech criticising broadcasters for not doing more to serve the public interest, he famously coined the phrase television as the “vast wasteland.”

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Richard Salomon, a Harvard-trained lawyer and CEO of Vantage Point Consultants, has advised 400 of the Fortune 500 on ways to optimize the expenditure of corporate legal dollars. A co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Salomon sits on many other Boards from the Of Many Institute at NYU, to the Interfaith Youth Corps, and the President's Council of the Auburn Theological Seminary. He is a frequent moderator and speaker at many venerable institutions, including the 92nd St Y, Temple Emanu-El's Streicker Center, the University of Chicago, the Cornell Institute of Politics, the Illinois Holocaust Museum, the Alliance For Justice, and, of course, The Common Good.

Meet Representative Abigail Spanberger

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Representative Abigail Spanberger flipped a Republican district in 2018 and has taken issue with the sweep of the Biden agenda.

Rep. Spanberger (D-VA) began her career in public service, serving as a federal agent with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigating money laundering and narcotics cases. From 2006 to 2014, she worked overseas as a CIA operations officer focused on issues of national security including intelligence gathering on terrorism and nuclear proliferation.

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Known for her impressive record at the CIA, and her work to further our national security, Representative Spanberger is undoubtedly a rising star in the Democratic party.

Abigail Spanberger represents Virginia’s 7th District, covering an area around Richmond and Central Virginia.  She is 

Representative Spanberger is a Vice-Chair and the Democratic Whip of the Problem Solvers Caucus. She was elected to Congress in the 2018 elections, flipping a swing district in the process. Representative Spanberger began her career in public service, serving as a federal agent with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigating money laundering and narcotics cases. From 2006 to 2014, she worked overseas as a CIA operations officer focused on classified matters of national security that included intelligence gathering on terrorism and nuclear proliferation. She worked at home and abroad to collect vital intelligence, keep our country safe, and work in furtherance of our national security priorities.

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Jane Harman is an internationally recognized authority on U.S. and global security issues, foreign relations, and lawmaking. Among her many achievements, Harman is a Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita of the Wilson Center, one of the world’s most highly regarded think tanks.

Harman recently completed a decade as its first female President & CEO. Congresswoman Harman has long been a national expert at the nexus of security and public policy issues, and has received numerous awards for her distinguished service, including the Defense Department Medal for Distinguished Service, the CIA Agency Seal Medal, the CIA Director’s Award, and the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal.