Fifteen Years Ago this Week, the UN Headquarters in Iraq Was Bombed
On August 19th 2003 the United Nations headquarters in Iraq at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, was hit with a truck bomb. At least 22 people lost their lives in this attack, including the UN's top officia...
13 Elo 201821min
Journalist Robin Wright from 2014
In 2014, I spoke with New Yorker writer Robin Wright about her life and career as a foreign affairs journalist.
9 Elo 201844min
The 1998 US Embassy Bombings, Twenty Years On
On August 7th, 1998 my guest today John Lange was the acting United States Ambassador to Tanzania when a truck bomb exploded outside the embassy in Dar es Salaam. He did not know it at the time, but t...
30 Heinä 201833min
977 Days as the Hostage of Somali Pirates
Michael Scott Moore spent 977 days as a hostage of Somali pirates. He is a journalist and in 2012 he set out for the Somali coast on a reporting trip when he was kidnapped. What followed was a two and...
29 Heinä 201838min
How the World Regulates Twitter
David Kaye, is the author of the UN's first ever report on the regulation of user generated online content. That is, how governments and companies like Facebook and Twitter police their users. David ...
27 Heinä 201832min
Colombia Has a New President Who is Opposed to the Peace Deal
Ivan Duque won a run-off election on June 17th to become the next president of Colombia. Duque is a right of center politician who has been a sharp critic of the peace deal negotiated by president Jua...
25 Heinä 201827min
The Inside Story of How the World Closed the Hole in the Ozone Layer
The year is 1985. Ronald Regan is president. Margaret Thatcher is prime minister of the United Kingdom. Michael Jackson, White Snake and George Michael are dominating the billboard charts. Back to the...
22 Heinä 201827min
How Much Progress Are We Making Towards the Sustainable Development Goals?
At the United Nations in mid-July officials gathered for an annual checkup on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs, as they are known, are a set of 17 anti-poverty, health and ...
18 Heinä 201827min
