Welcome to our newsletter, Digital Transatlantic Dialogue. If you haven't joined us yet, w e are offering webinars every week on a specific public policy or cultural topic with experts from our inspiring community!

Today's Newsletter
  1. Headlines
  2. Book Talk: The Last President of Europe
  3. Virtual Transatlantic Forum
  4. What to Explore Virtually This Weekend
  5. Previous webinars
Headlines
  • "The multitrillion-dollar patchwork of federal and state relief programs has not kept bills from piling up or prevented long lines at food banks. But it has mitigated the damage. Now the expiration of those programs represents a cliff that many Americans and the economy are hurtling toward.(...)"

  • " Protests and, in some cases, violence, continued Thursday in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody after a white officer pinned him to the ground under his knee.(...)"

  • "President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies, two days after he tore into Twitter for fact-checking two of his tweets. (...)"

  • " Cette commission d’experts internationaux, présidée par les Français Jean Tirole et Olivier Blanchard, doit livrer des recommandations à long terme sur les « grands défis économiques » liés au climat, aux inégalités et au vieillissement. (...)"
Webinar: Book Talk
We’re pleased to invite you to join us for a webinar with William Drozdiak to discuss his new book,  The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to Revive Europe and Save the World .



with
 Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution & Senior Advisor for Europe and Eurasia at McLarty Associates
The discussion will be led by Ambassador James G. Lowenstein, co-founder of the French-American Foundation

  • Topic: French Politics
  • Date & Time: Thursday, June 18 at 1:00 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.
Virtual Transatlantic Forum
On June 10, we are hosting our first virtual Transatlantic Forum, reserved for program members. Dr. Anaïs Rameau , Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Weill Cornell Medical College and member of the Transatlantic Forum & her colleague Dr. Gloria Fung Chaw , General Internal Medicine Physician at Montefiore Medical Center will share their experiences working in hospitals during the height of Covid-19.

The discussion will be moderated by Rachele Haber-Thomson , Co-Founder of Blue Dot and member of the Transatlantic Forum.

If you would like to learn more about the Transatlantic Forum, please check our website here or contact us at nbastin@frenchamerican.org and frobin@frenchamerican.org.
What to Explore Virtually This Weekend
  • "Some of New York City's famous cultural institutions are working hard to keep us all engaged een as we're stuck at home. Here are a few things New Yorkers can check out remotely: Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum... 92Y... Virtual Storytime with the Brooklyn Public Library... Governors Island at Home. (...)"

Experience Intrepid Anywhere , Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Complex
  • Take a look at the online experiences offered by The Aircraft Carrier Museum docked along the Hudson River. This massive Navy ship took part in World War II, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Space Race.
Previous Webinars
Check out the full recordings of our webinars. The links below will take you to a 15-minute preview on Dropbox. You'll have the option to download the full file on the side of the page.


  1. How Coronavirus Will Change Geopolitics
  2. Coronavirus: The Infodemic?
  3. Book Reading: A Hundred Suns
  4. Book Talk: The Cactus League
  5. Creative Insights With Marc Levy
  6. Crisis Management During COVID-19
  7. Economic Impacts of COVID-19
  8. Virtual Cooking Class With Melissa Clark
  9. Racing to a Vaccine
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