Trump's Anti-DEI Crusade Comes to the UN | To Save Us From Hell
The Trump administration's fight against DEI has come for the United Nations. In this episode of To Save Us From Hell, Anjali Dayal and Mark Leon Goldberg discuss what we are seeing unfold at the UN i...
20 Helmi 202528min
Has Trump Destroyed Our Defense Against Pandemics?
The foreign aid freeze, destruction of USAID, and withdrawal from the World Health Organization have severely undermined America's ability to fight infectious diseases at home and abroad. With outbrea...
17 Helmi 202538min
Is There a Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine? | The Wall Street Journal's Yaroslav Trofimov
On February 12rd, Donald Trump held lengthty calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to advance a vague peace plan for Ukraine. But can a peace deal actually come together in a way that upho...
13 Helmi 202523min
Congo in Crisis: What's Driving the Violence and How Can it End?
On January 26, a Rwanda-backed militia known as M23 captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, massive city of two million people and a major regional trading hub. Whil...
10 Helmi 202530min
Can the UN Survive Trump 2.0?
Today's episode is a crossover with Robert Wright's Nonzero Podcast. I have followed Bob's work for years—he is a thoughtful commentator, author, and podcaster. He asked me to come on his show to disc...
5 Helmi 202543min
Assessing the Impact of Trump's Foreign Aid Freeze | Jeremy Konyndyk
On Day One, Donald Trump froze nearly all U.S. foreign aid. On Day Eight, the State Department issued a stop-work order for USAID. This is causing massive ripple effects around the world. USAID staff ...
29 Tammi 202528min
Sri Lanka Shows How to Oust a Corrupt Authoritarian Regime and Stop Democratic Backsliding
For the past two decades, Sri Lankan politics has been dominated by the Rajapaksa family, with two brothers more or less alternating between serving as president and prime minister from 2005 to 2022. ...
27 Tammi 202530min
What We Learned from Elise Stefanik's Confirmation Hearing for UN Ambassador
In this special live recording of To Save Us From Hell, our sister podcast about the UN, co-host Anjali Dayal and I discuss the highlights (and lowlights) from the confirmation hearing for Donald Trum...
23 Tammi 202547min
