A Woman in the White House? Yes, She Can | Anne-Marie Slaughter
A record number of women have thrown their hats into the ring to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 US presidential election. But with the party still reeling from Hillary Clinton’s devastating los...
16 Heinä 201928min
The G20 On Shaky Ground | Lawrence Summers
Although fair and free trade is one of the G20’s guiding principles, protectionism has re-emerged in many member states in recent years. Lawrence Summers, one of the G20’s architects, discusses the gr...
2 Heinä 201932min
Outtakes: Leta Hong Fincher on China's One Child Policy
Last week, we spoke to Leta Hong Fincher about the evolving feminist movement in China, and how women could be the greatest threat to continued rule by the Chinese Communist Party. For our outtake thi...
25 Kesä 20199min
The War on Women: The View from China | Leta Hong Fincher
When Mao Zedong declared in 1968 that “women hold up half the sky,” many were taken aback. No one expected such a progressive stance from the Communist founder of the People's Republic. Today, however...
18 Kesä 201924min
The Legacy of Tiananmen Square, 30 Years Later
Type the words “Tiananmen” or “June 4” in a search browser in China, and little, if anything, identifies Beijing’s central square as the site where thousands of people, mostly students, were killed wh...
4 Kesä 201942min
Outtakes: Yascha Mounk on Democracy and Social Media
Last week, we spoke with Yascha Mounk, a professor on liberal democracy and populism at Johns Hopkins University in Washington. We discussed the state of the EU in the run up to last week's European P...
28 Touko 20193min
A Referendum on the EU Experiment? | Yascha Mounk
European Parliament elections have traditionally been tedious, low-turnout affairs. But five years of financial and migrant crises, terrorist attacks, and growing nationalism have put the European Uni...
21 Touko 201928min
Outtakes: William Burns on Russia
Often when we're recording, we end up asking questions that are very interesting, but don't make it into our final episode. Rather than letting this just sit as extra tape our hard drive, we want to t...
14 Touko 20197min
