Episode 155: Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament
Marietje Schaake was under 30 years old when she first joined the European Parliament as a representative from the Netherlands in 2009. She candidly discusses the kinds of challenges she faced as a yo...
14 Jun 201753min
Episode 154: Hans Binnendijk
Hans Binnendijk is a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic relations and a longtime DC foreign policy insider. He served in top posts in the Clinton administration, including in the National S...
9 Jun 201757min
Saudi Arabia moves against Qatar and we now have yet another crisis in the Middle East
There is yet another crisis in the middle east. This week, Saudi Arabia and its close allies in the region moved against Qatar, cutting off sea and air travel and moving to isolate their fellow sunni ...
7 Jun 201725min
What You Need to Know About the Paris Agreement Pullout
Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement In the wake of this decision, I wanted to get a sense of the consequences of this decision to both the climate change goa...
2 Jun 201732min
What you need to know about the world's "Internally Displaced"
One overlooked aspect of the global conversation on conflict, disaster and humanitarian affairs is internal displacement and the plight of internally displaced people, or IDPs. Like refugees, IDPs hav...
31 Mai 201733min
Episode 153: Sharon Weinberger
Sharon Weinberger is the author of the new book The Imagineers of War:The Untold Story of DARPA. DARPA, for the un-initiated, stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and it is the br...
26 Mai 201745min
What Political Science Can Teach Us About the Killing of Journalists
We are nearly six months into the year and already 9 journalists have been killed in 2017, including 4 in Mexico alone. That figure comes from reporters without borders and is part of a larger data se...
24 Mai 201726min
Episode 152: Jill Filipovic
Jill Filipovic is author of the new book The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness. She is a Nairobi based journalist, but we caught up while she was on book tour in her hometown of Seattle. Ji...
19 Mai 201750min
