Trending Globally: Politics and Policy
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Episodes (217)
The extraction industry powering the green transition (from the Rhodes Center Po...
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From pandemics to misinformation: rethinking security today
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Biden’s industrial policy: what worked, what didn’t, and why it still matters
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A brief history of US interventionism in Iran and beyond
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How US economic policy is interacting with the global economy today
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How federal courts shape US public policy — and how that’s changed under Preside...
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Are human brains wired for war?
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Shutdown politics, gerrymandering, and the role of Congress as Trump enters his...
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Challenging the U.S. foreign policy consensus on Taiwan
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The future of the green transition and the climate movement
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Inequality and democracy in India, the US, and beyond
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Small Barriers, Big Impact: Rethinking International Development
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‘Illicit global economics 101’ with Peter Andreas
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Diplomacy, security, and the “Art of Coercion”
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The role of universities in a democratic society (originally broadcast on the Rh...
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What does the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ mean for America?
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USAID is gone. What's the future of international aid?
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Inflation’s winners and losers, with Mark Blyth
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How American firearms fuel violence in Mexico (rebroadcast)
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Press freedom and democracy in Africa and around the world
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Trump’s (second) “first 100 days”
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Why America can’t build things like it used to
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AI and the future of human rights
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Is America’s “housing crisis” really a “mobility crisis”?
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What Germany’s election means for Germany, the US, and the world
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The future of US-China relations under a new Trump administration
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Education, democracy and the remarkable life and work of Mary McCleod Bethune
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President Trump is back in office. What have we learned so far?
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Can the “free market” solve the climate crisis?
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The surprising causes and effects of democratic erosion
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Amidst melting glaciers and rising seas, finding hope for the future on an Antar...
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To understand Trump’s victory, look around the world
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How control of Congress will shape US politics, no matter who’s elected presiden...
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“Inside the global supply chain”, with New York Times’ Peter Goodman
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Why is this election so close? The issues and voters driving 2024
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The state of political journalism in an election year unlike any other
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A history of presidents who threatened American democracy (and the citizens who...
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The Secret History of the Pope and World War II (originally broadcast 2022)
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South Africa’s elections, 30 years after apartheid: part 2
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This summer’s UK and French elections explained, with Mark Blyth
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South Africa, 30 years after apartheid: part 1
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The surprising results of India’s election
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A former police officer (and public health expert) on the opioid crisis and publ...
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What should the Supreme Court’s role in our politics be?
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How American firearms fuel violence in Mexico
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Harm reduction, overdose prevention, and the future of treating America’s overdo...
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A new history of the Sandinista Revolution
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What happened to the ‘American dream’?
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From Black Lives Matter to January 6, how ‘Black grief’ and ‘white grievance’ sh...
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Mark and Carrie Special: 2024 Primaries, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, what’s ne...
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