How Democracies Can Defend Themselves from Disinformation Campaigns
As the United States enters its next election cycle, our democracy is still extremely vulnerable to disinformation campaigns from Russia. Other democracies, particularly in Europe, are also vulnerable...
7 Mar 201828min
Episode 184: Noubar Afeyan
Noubar Afeyan is a business leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2015, along with other decedents of survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide, he co-founded the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. ...
2 Mar 201846min
Why We Lie About Aid
My podcast guest today Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. He is the author of the new book "Why We Lie About Aid: Development and t...
28 Feb 201828min
Episode 182: Sulome Anderson
Sulome Anderson was in utero when her father, the journalist Terry Anderson, was kidnapped in Beirut. She met him for the first time as a six year old, when he was finally released by his Hezbollah li...
23 Feb 201855min
The Conflict in Syria Enters a New Phase
The conflict in Syria has entered a new phase. ISIS has been defeated, yet in many ways the war is metastasizing. In places like Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, the war is as brutal as e...
21 Feb 201825min
Episode 181: Djibouti Democracy Activist Daher Ahmed Farah
Djibouti is the only country in the world that hosts military bases for both the United States and China. The US base, Camp Lemmonier, hosts US special forces and its only a few kilometers from China'...
16 Feb 201842min
Why American Funding for the United Nations is a Bargain
It's budget season in Washington, DC. And this year (like last year) the White House has requested massive cuts to foreign affairs spending in general, and to the United Nations in particular. The Fis...
15 Feb 201829min
Episode 180: Anote Tong, Former President of Kirabati
To the people of Kiribati, climate change is an existential threat. This is an Island nation in the pacific -- it is a string of atolls about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It has a populatio...
12 Feb 201851min
