DEI: Enemy of the People?
Trump has led a relentless attack on Diversity Equity and Inclusion, saying it undermines a meritocracy. Former State DEI chief Ambassador Gina Abercrombie Winstanley asserts that equity and inclusion...
3 Huhti 202540min
South Africans Don't Like to be Bullied
And why does it matter how regular South Africans feel about US behavior toward their country? Ambassador Charlie Ray untangles the powerful dynamics within South Africa domestically and vis-a-vis th...
28 Maalis 202532min
We are Americans and we stand for something.
What happens when the US washes its hands of its international obligations? Ambassador Mike Polt, Co-Founder of ASU's Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab, views our president as our chief...
20 Maalis 202535min
How is Trump 2.0 Like An Onion?
A foreign policy grandmaster strategist? Or is our president guided simply by whim and spite, without a cohesive plan? Pete and Laura break it down. You be the judge.
17 Maalis 202523min
Tariff Wars
Tony Wayne, former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs and US Ambassador to Mexico, pulls apart the strands. First, what is an import? How many times would you guess a raw...
6 Maalis 202537min
When Economists Wage War
Diplomat and Author Edward Fishman reveals how globalization is giving way to zero-sum self-interest. Can we win the emerging economic warfare? Listen, and read his new book Chokepoints: American Po...
28 Helmi 202529min
USAID and the Fate of Gazans
Peace in the Middle East starts in Gaza and the West Bank. But beautiful parks and fountains and casinos…the Riviera of the Middle East, a beautiful vacation spot in what is now rubble? And somehow ...
20 Helmi 202532min
Mar-A-Panama?
How many "Mar-a-" conquests will there be? US Ambassador (ret) to Panama John Feeley breaks it all down, with a quick review of the relevant past, and substantive, yet richly candid view of Trump's f...
13 Helmi 202547min
