The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Means Business
The advent of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, sometimes called a Chinese-led rival to the World Bank, is one of the most genuinely interesting developments in global affairs. Thought not yet...
6 Touko 201521min
Episode 63: Albina du Boisrouvray
Albina du Boisrouvray is a French countess who sold her family heirlooms to start an anti poverty NGO. She was born into one of the wealthiest families in the world and was a successful film producer ...
3 Touko 201536min
Nepal Dodges a Bullet
Two years ago, I asked a top UN expert in disaster to describe the one scenario that keeps him up at night. Without hesitation he said that an intense earthquake in Kathamndu would be a monumental cat...
30 Huhti 201517min
Episode 62: Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria shares stories about his upbringing in India and the influence of his die-hard pro-American mother and Indian nationalist father. He discusses his intellectual journey from a middle cla...
27 Huhti 201545min
Earthquake in Nepal: "Our Nightmare Scenario," says UN Official
An earthquake in Katmandu may become one of the terrible natural disasters of our era. In 2013, I spoke with Jo Scheuer of the United Nations Development Program. He is an expert in disaster risk red...
25 Huhti 20154min
Inside the Fight Against Malaria
Humanity is winning the fight against Malaria, but we still have a long way to go. Since the advent of the Global Fund, the Millennium Development Goals and the President's Malaria Initiative, death a...
22 Huhti 201518min
Episode 61: Juliette Kayyem
Juliette Kayyem is a practitioner and scholar of security studies. She's a former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, civil right attorney, Harvard Professor and self described "security mom." S...
20 Huhti 201547min
Palestinians in Syria: Stuck in "The Deepest Circle of Hell"
When the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus was overrun by ISIS, a bad situation got much worse. Ban Ki moon called it "the deepest circle of hell" and UN humanitarian agencies are struggling to he...
15 Huhti 201519min
