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Meet the US Youth Observer to the UN

A Lopsided Vote Against the United States Portends Big Changes At the United Nations

Episode 175: Dr. Mozhdeh Ghasemiyani is a Psychologist who Escaped a Genocide

Episode 174: Michael McFaul, Former US Ambassador to Russia

Trump's Jerusalem Gamble

Episode 174: Dr.Joanne Liu, head of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders

Episode 172: Agnès Marcaillou Leads the UN's Bomb Squad

Episode 171: David Miliband

Zimbabwe and the fall of Robert Mugabe, Explained

How ISIS May Face Justice for Atrocity Crimes

Episode 170: Peter Galbraith

The Crisis in Yemen Takes a Turn for the Worse

How Trump's Radical Approach to "Sovereignty" is shaping International Relations

The International Relations of California

Episode 169: Farida Nabourema

How Tunisia Became the Only Real Arab Spring Success Story

Episode 168: Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Beatrice Fihn

This Supreme Court Case Could Have a Big Impact on US Foreign Policy

Episode 167: Alexis Okeowo

These are the Global Implications of Trump's Blowing Up of the Iran Nuclear Deal

Monday October 09, 2017

What the Kurdish Independence Referendum Means for the Middle East

Episode 165: Ambassador Keith Harper

Trump's new travel ban has one historic precedent: The Chinese Exclusion Act

Episode 165: Meghan O'Sullivan

What to Expect at the UN General Assembly

Ethnic Cleansing is Ongoing Against the Rohingya of Myanmar. Here is how to stop it

Episode 164: John Shattuck

Can the International Community Do Hurricane Response Better?

Episode 163: Helene Cooper

New Research Finds a Link Between the Cost of Getting Married and the Outbreak Violent Conflict

Former Senator Sam Nunn Explains How a New "Fuel Bank" Can Curb Nuclear Proliferation

Poland is in the Midst of a Democratic Backslide

Can North Korea Be Deterred?

There is a deadly Climate-Conflict Nexus in Somalia

Episode 162: Mark Kennedy Shriver

Everything You Know About Sweatshops is Wrong

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Episode 161: Graham Allison

How Peace Broke Out in Colombia

Episode 160: Wendy Pearlman is an academic who studies the Middle East in an unusual way

Episode 159: Eric Schwartz, former top State Department official who ran US refugee programs

This Could Be Africa's Next Big Conflict

How the Supreme Court's Ruling on Trump's Travel Ban Will Impact Refugees Around the World

Episode 158: Jeffrey Smith is a thorn in the side of Africa's dinosaur presidents

The Latest World Population Facts and Figures Were Just Released

Episode 156: Greg Stone -- Ocean Scientist, Explorer, Advocate

Episode 155: Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament

Episode 154: Hans Binnendijk

Saudi Arabia moves against Qatar and we now have yet another crisis in the Middle East

What You Need to Know About the Paris Agreement Pullout

What You Need to Know about the World's "Internally Displaced People"

Episode 153: Sharon Weinberger

What Political Science Can Teach Us About the Killing of Journalists

Episode 152: Jill Filipovic

What You Need to Know about Trump's First Foreign Trip

Episode 151: James Walsh

Meet Emmanuel Macron, the Surprising New President of France

Episode 150: Lisa Palmer

Yemen is Already in a Civil War. Now it Faces a Famine

Episode 149: Marcus Bleasdale

What's Next for Afghanistan?

Episode 148: Laurie Adams

The Venezuela Crisis, Explained

Episode 147: Linda Thomas-Greenfield

What Political Science Can Teach Us About The US Airstrikes on Syria

Episode 146: Vali Nasr

What's Next for US-China Relationship?

Episode 145: Richard Haass

Meet the Smugglers Who Make Mass Migration Possible

Episode 144: James Goldgeier

What North Korea Wants

Is Torture Making a Comeback?

Episode 143: Julie Smith

Episode 142: Jeremy Konyndyk

What We Mean When We Talk About Foreign Aid

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Episode 141: Joshua Landis

For the first time in six years, a famine has been declared

Episode 140: Molly Crabapple

Episode 139: Bathsheba Crocker

Is Gross National Happiness the New GDP?

In Myanmar, Crimes Against Humanity Committed Against the Rohingya Community are Ongoing and Unrelenting

Episode 138: Dr. Larry Brilliant

How the Middle East is Reacting to Trump's Travel Ban

Episode 137: Princeton Lyman

Trump Just Re-Instated the "Global Gag Rule." Here's what that means.

Live from Chicago! Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad

What's Next for Israel and Palestine?

Episode 136: Karen Greenberg

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Turkey in Crisis

Episode 135: Maria J Stephan

The stories, crises and provocations that will drive the global agenda in 2017