Trump's New Travel Ban Has One Historic Precedent: The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Trump administration this week announced sweeping new restrictions on travelers from eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen Days later, the administr...
27 Sep 201725min
Episode 165: Meghan O'Sullivan
My guest today Meghan O'Sullivan is the author of the new book Windfall: How the new energy abundance upends global politics and strengthens American power. And we kick off our conversation with a di...
25 Sep 201746min
The Challenge of Getting Refugee Children in Quality Schools
Amid all the pageantry, hoopla and media circus that is UN week in New York there is always some interesting and substantive work being done on important global issues. Sometimes these issues are not ...
21 Sep 201722min
The United Nations and Donald Trump Get to Know Each Other
World leaders gather at the United Nations this week for the annual summit at the United Nations General Assembly. This is always one of the big highlights of the international diplomatic calendar and...
16 Sep 201739min
Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
Nearly 400,000 ethnic Rohingya have fled Myanmar across the border to Bangladesh. By the time you listen to this, that number will almost surely be much higher. Since late August, security forces fro...
13 Sep 201731min
Episode 164: John Shattuck
John Shattuck is the former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, former President of the Central European University, and served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labo...
8 Sep 201758min
Can the International Community Do Hurricane Response Better?
With Houston still reeling from Hurricane Harvey, Irma causing massive havoc in the Caribbean, and more storms on the way, I thought it would be timely and interesting to speak with my guest today, Ma...
7 Sep 201733min
Episode 163: Helene Cooper is a pulitzer prize winning journalist and refugee from Liberia
Helene Cooper is the Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times. She is also the author of the new book "Madame President: The extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf" which is a biography o...
1 Sep 201735min
