The rise of other global powers is a profound new reality of today’s world. As headlines remind us nearly everyday, China, India, Russia, as well as the European Union, Japan, and others are rapidly gaining strength and influence.  How should the U.S. navigate this new world landscape? Does the rise of these powers represent an ideological challenge or an economic boom? Will global warming convince us we are all in the same boat? The Next World conference will explore these questions and others, focusing on key foreign policy priorities for the next administration.    

Please join us for the screening of Javier Bardem's new documentary, "Invisibles," which shines a light on five of the world’s most underreported crises.

Mr. Bardem will be featured in join a panel discussion on one of the film's subjects: extreme violence against women in the Congo. The Enough Project will also unveil its forthcoming campaign, RAISE Hope for Congo: Protect and Empower Congo's Women.

Music is central to American life, but music's place in American education is unclear today. Many worry that the No Child Left Behind Act is driving music out of the curriculum, while others say that basic reading and math should come first. The Center for American Progress and the Music National Service Initiative are honored to host Governor Mike Huckabee in a presentation about the value of music education—both as a strategy for improving student achievement and as a way to strengthen the long-term health of our nation's communities and economy.

Please join us for the screening of Javier Bardem's new documentary, "Invisibles," which shines a light on five of the world’s most underreported crises.

Mr. Bardem will be featured in a panel discussion on one of the film's subjects: extreme violence against women in the Congo. The Enough Project will also unveil its forthcoming campaign, RAISE Hope for Congo: Protect and Empower Congo's Women.

Dr. Ashraf Ghani, current chairman of the Institute for State Effectiveness, will share his insight and firsthand experience of Afghanistan at an upcoming Center for American Progress event. Dr. Ghani is perhaps most well-known as Afghanistan's Minister of Finance from 2002 - 2004. In this position, Dr. Ghani led his country's reconstruction efforts including the introduction of a new currency and tax system.

Yet, seven years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan remains a failed state. In this lecture, Dr. Ghani will help explain the reasons for this failure and what can be done to improve the current situation. He will also examine how billions of dollars from the international community have done little to help bolster a failing state. Please join us for this timely discussion.

Since the late 1970s and building through the era of Ronald Reagan, there has been an ongoing debate about the effectiveness of supply-side economics. Do tax cuts spur economic growth and pay for themselves with higher revenues on additional economic activity stimulated? This debate will be revived in the coming year as the incoming President and Congress will soon decide whether to renew of a variety of tax cuts adopted starting in 2001 and set to expire in 2010. Economists now have years of experience with this tax policy. What does the evidence show us? What has been the public debate about tax policy and supply-side and has it shifted in light of growing inequality and limited sharing of the benefits of economic growth?

The Economic Policy Institute and the Center for American Progress invite you to this event featuring prominent economists, writers and pollsters to discuss the impact and history of supply-side.

Papers by Professor Frankel, Michael Ettlinger, Vice-President for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress and John Irons, Research and Policy Director at the Economic Policy Institute, will be also be released.

This panel will examine the effect of rising home energy costs on low-income households. It will also explore what Congress and the president can do to strengthen the ability of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, to provide vulnerable homes with needed assistance this winter while also ensuring that Weatherization Assistance Program investments reduce costs in future winters.

At a time when political discourse is seemingly consumed with trivial matters, authors Susan Neiman and Michael Boylan remind us of the moral and ethical questions that once informed our politics and how they can help move us forward today. For example, what is a good society? What is evil? What are our obligations to one another and to our ideals? What can we do in our everyday lives to be more virtuous and to live honorably?

Through accessible prose and informative thought-experiments, in their books, Moral Clarity and The Good, the True, and the Beautiful, both Neiman and Boylan apply the tools of their trade—moral philosophy—to help us better understand and reflect upon what is at stake in our everyday political discourse.

Please join the Center for American Progress for a moderated book discussion with the authors and an examination of how abstract philosophy intersects with practical policy making.

Copies of Moral Clarity and The Good, the True, and the Beautiful will be available for purchase at the event.

In a new poignant memoir, New York Times journalist Helene Cooper tells the story of her privileged Liberian childhood cut brutally short by a bloody 1980 coup, her family's escape and survival, and, twenty-three years later, her return to her native country to find the foster sister her family left behind.

Copies of The House at Sugar Beach will be available for purchase.  The author will be available to sign books following the discussion.