Kristine McDivitt Tompkins was one of the largest private landowners in the world before she gave it away
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins made history earlier this year when she completed what is said to be the largest ever transfer of land from a private entity to a government. In a ceremony in Chile with Pre...
30 Touko 201830min
A New Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
The ebola outbreak ongoing the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most severe ebola outbreak since the 2014 calamity in west Africa that killed over 11,000 people. Citing figures about this outbr...
24 Touko 201832min
A Conversation With Michael Møller, Director General of the UN Offices in Geneva
I was a bit skeptical when my guest today told me that every person on the planet, in any 24 hour period, is somehow impacted by the work of the UN and other international entities in Geneva. Still, M...
23 Touko 201831min
How Shipping Containers Explain the Conflict in Yemen
For this episode, I wanted to explore a different way to understand the crisis in Yemen. Yemen has two main ports, Hodeidah to the north, on the Red Sea and Aden to the south, on the Gulf of Aden. O...
18 Touko 201831min
Understanding the Gaza Protests
It's been a tumultuous week in Israel and Palestine. On the same day that the United States formally opened its embassy in Jerusalem, dozens of Palestinians were shot to death by Israeli soldiers alon...
16 Touko 201838min
The Demise of the Iran Nuclear Deal and What Comes Next
No journalist covered the ins and outs of the negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal as closely as Laura Rozen. She is a reporter with the middle east news website Al Monitor and in the negotiations ...
9 Touko 201828min
Can Dr. Tom Frieden Save 100 Million Lives?
Dr. Tom Frieden lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017. He now has a new role: President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies. And in...
4 Touko 201829min
China's Foreign Policy is at a Turning Point
My guest today, Elizabeth Economy, is the author of the new book The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State. The book examines the transformative changes ongoing in China today under t...
2 Touko 201831min
