Evan Osnos

One of America’s preeminent political journalists, Evan Osnos has spent the past 25 years in the hot spots that shape our world today: Washington, China, Ukraine, the Middle East. Fresh from in-depth coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, he is known for rare prescience and access, having published books on Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Xi Jinping. He focuses on overlooked leadership dynamics and behind-the-scenes dramas that reverberate through business, politics, and foreign affairs. A sought-after guest on television and radio, he isolates the most revealing anecdotes and facts from a complicated world, to give audiences a renewed sense of clarity in a time of uncertainty. Among his most popular speeches, a lively tour of global hotspots goes inside the White House, the halls of Chinese leadership, and to the frontlines of Ukraine and Israel, for an up-to-the-minute sense of where the world is heading.

America’s latest presidential election showed us the limits of polls and forecasts. Gaining a deeper sense of the national mood means asking different questions: What is strengthening dignity, and what is eroding it? Where are we becoming more connected, and where are we drifting apart? How have the social impacts of technology and trade changed our patterns? Tracing how Americans lost a vision for the common good helps us see the pathways to regaining it. Across the country, promising efforts are showing us the power of renewed civic engagement, local knowledge, and voluntary service. In this inspiring, non-partisan presentation, rich with surprising anecdotes and science, National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos (whose 2021 book Wildland was a New York Times bestseller) brings audiences into the art of resilience, enlivened by real-world stories of those who rebuild the ties that bind us.

Despite five decades in American public life, Biden remains indistinct in the eyes of many Americans. As recently as 2012, nearly a third of those polled in South Carolina could not name the sitting vice president. In the 2020 primary, even days before he secured the Democratic nomination, many Americans assumed his campaign was in its final moments. Then, almost immediately, the pandemic made a conventional campaign impossible — and forced Americans to weigh one of the most consequential choices of a lifetime through a limited window. Evan Osnos of The New Yorker has interviewed Biden repeatedly since 2014. In this intimate portrait, Osnos takes you inside Biden’s thinking on foreign affairs, economics, and negotiation. Based on interviews with the 46th president and with more than a hundred others, including former President Barack Obama, this is a window into Biden’s worldview, calculations, and inner circle.

Starbucks is opening a new store in China every fifteen hours; TikTok is redefining American social media. Business continues even as U.S. and Chinese jets jockey in the skies over the South China Sea, and Russia raises the threat of nuclear confrontation. For the first time in a generation, the world is divided by great-power politics, but, unlike the Cold War, the U.S. and China are also economically entwined on an unprecedented scale. How do leaders in Washington, Beijing, and Moscow really talk, behind closed doors, about the future? What is hype and what is real? What are the rules that companies, consumers, and global citizens can rely on to thrive in an age of big-power competition? With insights from across the globe, Evan Osnos is a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller and analyst, who combines deep knowledge with up-to-the-minute insights on the new global balance of power. Are the East and West on a collision course, or can we find common ground? A vibrant narrative analysis of the players and the issues.

A deep, anecdotally rich dive into the ambitions, tastes, and values of the men and women at the heart of China’s rise. They are consumers, students, and parents; nationalists and liberals and libertarians; Christians, Communists, and Taoists — By 2025, China’s wildly diverse middle class will be more than twice the size of America’s entire population. How are they remake our world?