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Washington Launch of "Media and Mass Atrocity"
INGAA Foundation
Type: Event
Don’t Help the Persecutors
NPC Headliners Luncheon: Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Type: Event
Freedom to Teach
2019 NPC Journalism Institute Golf Invitational Tournament
Type: Event
Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting
“Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting” A presentation by Jonathan Simon, author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy Please join us at the National Press Club, Tuesday April 16, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., for a glass of wine and a presentation on the true national emergency that is electronic voting. While voter suppression and gerrymandering are now on the national radar, the counting process itself – and the implications for our democracy of its manifest vulnerability to manipulation – continues to be given a virtual free pass. Every election…
Type: Event
“Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting”
“Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting” A presentation by Jonathan Simon, author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy Please join us at the National Press Club, Tuesday April 16, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., for a glass of wine and a presentation on the true national emergency that is electronic voting. While voter suppression and gerrymandering are now on the national radar, the counting process itself – and the implications for our democracy of its manifest vulnerability to manipulation – continues to be given a virtual free pass. Every election…
Type: Event
Crimes against Americans abroad: Who's being held accountable?
NPC New Member Reception
Type: Event
NPC Headliners Book Event: "Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained"
When Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island, S.C., the Marine Corps’ all-women boot camp, she decided that if she was really going to improve the lagging performance of the female Marines under her command, she was going to have to try something new: raise expectations and push for tougher standards for female recruits. After just one year under her leadership, female recruits made significant gains in strength tests and retention rates, and achieved a passing rate for initial rifle qualification equal to that of their male…
Type: Event
"Truthers" Hosted by the NPC Events Team & Newsy
Online conspiracy movements have relentlessly targeted survivors and family of victims in the wake of almost every recent American mass shooting, from Sandy Hook to Parkland. Newsy's documentary report "Truthers" explores that issue and spotlights a pattern of online harassment that has real-world consequences. Join the National Press Club and Newsy for a screening of "Truthers," followed by a panel discussion among survivors and family who have been targeted by conspiracy movements and a conversation about solutions in both tech and policy. Panelists: Suzanna Barna is a senior at Marjory…
Type: Event
Christopher Scalia on the legacy of his father, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Christopher J. Scalia, one of the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s nine children, will appear at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss his father’s life and legacy, and what we can learn from the dozens of speeches and writings he left behind. Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived, edited by Justice Scalia’s son Christopher and one of the Justice’s former law clerks Edward Whelan, is a compilation of dozens of Justice Scalia’s speeches, some published for the first time, that range in topic and tone from…
Type: Event
Sunshine Week: Dispelling the Gathering Clouds
NPC Broadcast Team
Type: Event