Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, sits down with the Academy’s Beyond the Lecture series to discuss protecting quality news.

Interviews with fiction writer Tom Franklin, historian Rebecca Boehling, geographer Michael Watts, medievalist Alex Novikoff.

Interviews with writer and Holtzbrinck Fellow Mary Cappello, medical historian and Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow Monica Green, historian and Siemens Fellow Robin Einhorn and writer and Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow Anthony Marra.

Economist Alvin E. Roth spoke with the American Academy’s “Beyond the Lecture” series about matching markets and how market design might aid, among many other things, in the resettlement of refugees in Europe.

Political scientist Francis Fukuyama argues that in order for democracies to remain legitimate and to continue to attract new adherents, they must address the constraints imposed upon them by institutions that emphasize rule of law and accountability at the expense of states’ capacities to take strong action.

Distinguished Visitor and noted political scientist Francis Fukuyama talks about polarization in the United States, the rise of presidential candidate Donald Trump, and the effect of the refugee crisis on liberal Western democracy.

On this edition of the American Academy in Berlin’s “Beyond the Lecture” series, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz discussed his most recent book, The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe.

Author Kati Marton was at the Academy on the occasion of her new book, True Believer, about Soviet Communism’s ideological infiltration of the US State Department in the 1930s. She sat down with us to talk about parallels to the present and the vital importance of journalism today.

This episode of the American Academy in Berlin’s “Beyond the Lecture” features an interview with University of California Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen, who was at the Academy to deliver a lecture on the history of populism in America.