Episode 188: Bangladeshi Immigrant Rais Bhuiyan Survived a Hate Crime and Fought to Save from Execution the Man Who Shot Him
On September 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan was working behind the counter at a gas station outside Dallas, Texas when a man named Mark Stroman walked in brandishing a sawed-off shotgun. Stroman was a self-pr...
30 Mar 20181h 4min
Palestinian Refugees are about to Face Yet Another Crisis
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, is facing a crisis. This is the humanitarian agency that provides relief for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan an...
29 Mar 201831min
I Started My Career as a Journalist Covering John Bolton. Here is What I have Learned (special episode)
I got my start in journalism covering John Bolton when he was the US Ambassador to the United Nations. At the time, I was a reporter for the political monthly The American Prospect. I sometimes quip ...
27 Mar 201827min
Episode 187: Wanjira Mathai
Wanjira Mathai is a Kenyan environmental and civic leader. She is the chair of the Wangari Mathai Foundation, which is named after her mother who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Much of Wanjira's w...
23 Mar 201845min
A Successful End to the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia
By the end of this month the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia will no longer exist. The mission, known as UNMIL, is closing shop after nearly 15 years in operation, and its closing this ...
20 Mar 201835min
Episode 186: Maggy Barankitse saved thousands of children in the wake of a genocide
Maggy Barankitse is the founder of Maison Shalom, an orphanage and school that was created in Burundi in the wake of the Civil War there in the 1990s. Like in neighboring Rwanda, the conflict in Burun...
18 Mar 201833min
Meet Mike Pompeo
I am still catching my breath over the news that Rex Tillerson was fired and CIA Director Mike Pompeo has been nominated as his replacement as Secretary of State. That happened, of course, just days a...
14 Mar 201830min
Episode 185: Joseph Kaifala
Joseph Kaifala was just a child when civil war broke out in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The war came to his town in 1989 and as a seven-year-old was imprisoned with his father. They were eventually rele...
11 Mar 201851min
