TED Talks News and Politics
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An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter | Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi
It's time to reclaim religion | Sharon Brous
How to have better political conversations | Robb Willer
How jails extort the poor | Salil Dudani
3 ways to fix a broken news industry | Lara Setrakian
Why civilians suffer more once a war is over | Margaret Bourdeaux
The racial politics of time | Brittney Cooper
Who would the rest of the world vote for in your country's election? | Simon Anholt
Political common ground in a polarized United States | Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks
Behind the lies of Holocaust denial | Deborah Lipstadt
How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante
This is what democracy looks like | Anthony D. Romero
Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform | Marlon Peterson
The refugee crisis is a test of our character | David Miliband
Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life? | Jim Yong Kim
Don't feel sorry for refugees -- believe in them | Luma Mufleh
Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power | Jorge Ramos
What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith | Ingrid Betancourt
How I help free innocent people from prison | Ronald Sullivan
Courage is contagious | Damon Davis
Why we need to end the era of orphanages | Tara Winkler
How young people join violent extremist groups -- and how to stop them | Erin Marie Saltman
How the US government spies on people who protest -- including you | Jennifer Granick
Who belongs in a city? | OluTimehin Adegbeye
How our friendship survives our opposing politics | Caitlin Quattromani and Lauran Arledge
What we're missing in the debate about immigration | Duarte Geraldino
A Black man goes undercover in the alt-right | Theo E.J. Wilson
What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea | Euna Lee
How to seek truth in the era of fake news | Christiane Amanpour
Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre | Anjan Sundaram
A Republican mayor's plan to replace partisanship with policy | G.T. Bynum
How judges can show respect | Victoria Pratt
Activism needs introverts | Sarah Corbett
What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit | Teresa Njoroge
How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming | Per Espen Stoknes
How adoption worked for me | Christopher Ategeka
From death row to law graduate | Peter Ouko
My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out | Christian Picciolini
3 thoughtful ways to conserve water | Lana Mazahreh
How to put the power of law in people's hands | Vivek Maru
What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness | Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix
American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how | Bob Inglis
How protest is redefining democracy around the world | Zachariah Mampilly
3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage | Valarie Kaur
Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system | Bhu Srinivasan
Refugees want empowerment, not handouts | Robert Hakiza
How shocking events can spark positive change | Naomi Klein
How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford
The human stories behind mass incarceration | Eve Abrams
What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people? | Brett Hennig
War and what comes after | Clemantine Wamariya
What's missing in the global debate over refugees | Yasin Kakande
What if we ended the injustice of bail? | Robin Steinberg
A Parkland teacher's homework for us all | Diane Wolk-Rogers
A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom | Tracee Ellis Ross
It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence | Laura L. Dunn
Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker
What it's like to be the child of immigrants | Michael Rain
Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit | Lindsay Malloy
What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media | Mikhail Zygar
Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer? | Benedetta Berti
How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together | Tracie Keesee
How whistle-blowers shape history | Kelly Richmond Pope
What to trust in a "post-truth" world | Alex Edmans
Is war between China and the US inevitable? | Graham Allison
The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't | Michael Green
Is civility a sham? | Teresa Bejan
3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do | Stacey Abrams
The political progress women have made -- and what's next | Cecile Richards
This country isn't just carbon neutral -- it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay
What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century | Tiana Epps-Johnson
How we can start to heal the pain of racial division | Ruby Sales
How women in Pakistan are creating political change | Shad Begum
A juror's reflections on the death penalty | Lindy Lou Isonhood
A bold idea to replace politicians | César Hidalgo
An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall | Ronald Rael
Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here's how to know | Farida Nabourema
How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza | Majd Mashharawi
What refugees need to start new lives | Muhammed Idris
Why we ignore obvious problems -- and how to act on them | Michele Wucker
What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other | Jarrell Daniels
Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr
How to revive your belief in democracy | Eric Liu
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time | Baratunde Thurston
The political power of being a good neighbor | Michael Tubbs
A vision for the future of Sierra Leone | Julius Maada Bio
How policewomen make communities safer | Ivonne Roman
What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy | Nanfu Wang
The fundamental right to seek asylum | Melanie Nezer
The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot
Why governments should prioritize well-being | Nicola Sturgeon
How the West can adapt to a rising Asia | Kishore Mahbubani
What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea | Yeonmi Park
What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics | Jochen Wegner
How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing | Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon
Community-powered criminal justice reform | Raj Jayadev
A wall won't solve America's border problems | Will Hurd
Creativity builds nations | Muthoni Drummer Queen
How we're helping local reporters turn important stories into national news | Gangadhar Patil
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean | Tina Arrowood
The Amazon belongs to humanity -- let's protect it together | Tashka and Laura Yawanawá
What happens to people in solitary confinement | Laura Rovner
Our immigration conversation is broken -- here's how to have a better one | Paul A. Kramer
What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better | Erika Pinheiro
5 steps for clean air in India | Arunabha Ghosh
A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan | LaToya Ruby Frazier
The problem of light pollution -- and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it | Kelsey Johnson
To help solve global problems, look to developing countries | Bright Simons
Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans | Kelsey Leonard
How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it | Nick Bostrom
How supply chain transparency can help the planet | Markus Mutz
A path to security for the world's deadliest countries | Rachel Kleinfeld
The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts | Marilyn Waring
Dictators hate political cartoons -- so I keep drawing them | Rayma Suprani
What if the poor were part of city planning? | Smruti Jukur Johari
What if a single human right could change the world? | Kristen Wenz
When local news dies, so does democracy | Chuck Plunkett
What we do (and don't) know about the coronavirus | David Heymann
How repaying loans with social service transforms communities | Angie Murimirwa
How forgiveness can create a more just legal system | Martha Minow
How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason
The intangible effects of walls | Alexandra Auer
What's missing from the American immigrant narrative | Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
How to shift your mindset and choose your future | Tom Rivett-Carnac
A global pandemic calls for global solutions | Larry Brilliant
A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines | Skylar Tibbits
What you need to know about face surveillance | Kade Crockford
How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response | Huang Hung
A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic | Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi
The US is addicted to incarceration. Here's how to break the cycle | Robin Steinberg and Manoush Zomorodi
Restoring human dignity at the US southern border | Norma Pimentel
How to rebuild the global economy | Kristalina Georgieva
The ACLU's call to defund the police | Anthony D. Romero
The alliances needed to rebuild the developing world | Achim Steiner
How do daily habits lead to political violence? | Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah
How the new generation of Latinx voters could change US elections | María Teresa Kumar
Europe's plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent | Ursula von der Leyen
The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs | Dannagal G. Young
What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election? | Van Jones
3 ways to upgrade democracy for the 21st century | Max Rashbrooke
How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation | Sinan Aral
How to have constructive conversations | Julia Dhar
An election system that puts voters (not politicians) first | Amber McReynolds
US politics isn't broken. It's fixed | Katherine M. Gehl
How compassion could save your strained relationships | Betty Hart
Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste | Amanda Little
Who makes judges? | Jessica Kerr
An app that empowers people to solve their legal problems | Rohan Pavuluri
How marijuana reform could repair, reclaim and restore communities | Khadijah Tribble
Racism thrives on silence -- speak up! | Dexter Dias
Why COP26 is our best chance for a greener future | Alok Sharma
Don't call people out -- call them in | Loretta J. Ross
The big myth of government deficits | Stephanie Kelton
Why the passport needs an upgrade | Karoli Hindriks
What to expect from COP26 | Countdown Summit
A vision for sustainable energy in Africa | Chibeze Ezekiel
Dear world leaders, these are our climate demands | Xiye Bastida, Shiv Soin and Latif Nasser
Use your voice, vote and wallet for climate action | Halla Tómasdóttir
A different understanding of American patriotism | Deval Patrick
The war in Ukraine could change everything | Yuval Noah Harari
War in Ukraine — and what it means for the world order | Ian Bremmer
How to share public money fairly | Maja Bosnic
Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil | Garry Kasparov
An election redesign to restore trust in US democracy | Tiana Epps-Johnson
How the US should use its superpower status | Ian Bremmer
How labor unions shape society | Margaret Levi
The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown | Yuval Noah Harari
The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski
The US can move past immigration prisons -- and towards justice | César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
What capitalism gets right -- and governments get wrong | Katherine Mangu-Ward
How to revitalize a neighborhood -- without gentrification | Bree Jones
What you can learn from people who disagree with you | Shreya Joshi
How to transform your climate concern into action | Jane Fonda
A creative approach to community climate action | Xavier Cortada
Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement | Lindsey Schneider
The clean energy hub of the future | Rebekah Shirley
The fight for freedom in Iran and Ukraine | Christiane Amanpour