The ability to bounce back, to absorb shocks, to persevere, to retain functionality over time, to endure, to adapt, to succeed, to survive, to sustain...

At this day-long National Security Studies Program conference, the experts listed below assessed the durability, vulnerability, and threat posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates, ten years after 9/11.

On March 4, New America’s Phil Longman and Barry C. Lynn explored why job growth has stalled in the United States over the last decade. The event was based on the cover story in the current issue of the Washington Monthly, in which Longman and Lynn point to corporate consolidation as the major factor in job growth stagnation, brought on by decades of weak antitrust enforcement in Washington.

As the myth of the free market is overcome by current events, James K. Galbraith's new book explains both its rise and fall. His description of the dynamic and troublesome interaction between the public and private sectors is timely, instructive, and ultimately devastating. The rise of a free market ideology blurred both the distinction between these sectors and the growth of government. It did so in ways that not only contributed to greater wealth and income inequality, but also directly produced the financial crisis which is remaking the global economy on a daily basis.