SPECIAL IDEAS REPORT

Festival Panels

ASPEN PANEL: Building Palestine

Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority, talks to Thomas Friedman about laying the groundwork for statehood

ASPEN PANEL: Alan Greenspan on the Housing Bubble

The former Fed chair traces the current economic crisis back to the fall of the Soviet Union

ASPEN PANEL: What Drives Up the Cost of Health Care?

White House health care advisor Ezekiel Emanuel talks to Philips CEO Gerard Kleisterlee about the incentives that make medical technologies more and more expensive

ASPEN PANEL: Winning the Green Innovation Race

John Doerr asks Stanford President John Hennessy why so few of the leading clean energy companies are American

ASPEN PANEL: Me of Little Faith

Comedian Lewis Black offers unsolicited advice to religious voters

ASPEN PANEL: Are Jews Safe in Israel?

Jeffrey Goldberg asks Israeli Ambassador-Designate Michael Oren whether the Jewish State has failed in its mission to provide a secure haven for the Jewish people

ASPEN PANEL: Benefiting from China's Rise

James Fallows and Niall Ferguson debate how to steer the Far East superpower toward America's best interests

ASPEN PANEL: A Game of Catch-Up

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan explains to Bob Schieffer why American schools have fallen behind, and how the Obama administration plans to regain ground

ASPEN PANEL: Obama's America and the World

James Bennet asks Susan Rice, American ambassador to the United Nations, whether the new U.S. outlook can be labeled as idealist or realist

ASPEN PANEL: Is the Administration Anti-Business?

Austan Goolsbee, economic adviser to Obama, defends the president's tax plan

ASPEN PANEL: Google and the Financial Crisis

Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and CEO, explains why the recession is a failure of information

ASPEN PANEL: A Blogger's Story

Andrew Sullivan tells Ta-Nehisi Coates why he began exploring the new medium and explains why it enthralled him

ASPEN PANEL: Why Are More Women in Prison?

Linda Wertheimer asks former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, religious leader T. D. Jakes, and Harvard-based scholar Charles Ogletree to weigh in on the growing number of young female convicts

Katharine Weymouth on the Future of Paper

The publisher of the Washington Post explains the paper's adjustment to the online business model

For the Children

Marian Wright Edelman shares her vision at the Aspen Ideas Festival opening ceremony