For the first time in six years, a famine has been declared
The United Nations did some extremely rare in February: agencies declared that a famine was ongoing in parts of South Sudan. More than 100,000 people are affected by this famine and childhood mortalit...
23 Feb 201719min
Episode 139: Bathsheba Crocker
Diplomacy runs in her family. Sheba Crocker and her father Chester Crocker are the first parent-child combination to have both served as assistant secretaries of state. Crocker-the-elder was a noted A...
15 Feb 201752min
Is "Gross National Happiness" the New GDP?
Greetings from the World Government Summit in Dubai! This one of those big international conferences (think: World Economic Forum in Davos) that is hosted by the government of the United Arab Emirates...
12 Feb 201715min
Crimes Against Humanity in Burma are Ongoing (and terribly under-covered)
Crimes against humanity are ongoing in Burma and they are being committed by the state against the Rohingya people. This is a minority community in Burma that has historically faced intense discrimina...
8 Feb 201725min
Episode 138: Dr. Larry Brilliant
Dr. Larry Brilliant starred in a 1960s film that was a total flop. The movie was called Medicine Ball Caravan and it was a sort of documentary that followed Larry and a bunch of other hippies as they ...
3 Feb 201755min
How the Middle East is Reacting to Trump's Travel Ban
By now, you are well aware of President Trump's sweeping ban on migrants from seven Muslim majority countries; the indefinite suspension of refugees from Syria and the suspension of all refugee reset...
1 Feb 201725min
Episode 137: Princeton Lyman
Princeton Lyman was a long serving US Diplomat who has become one of the leading experts on African politics and policy. He most recently served as President Obama's special envoy to Sudan and South S...
27 Jan 201755min
Trump Just Re-Instated the "Global Gag Rule." Here's what that means.
On his third day on office President Trump signed a memorandum re-instating what is known as the "Global Gag Rule" or sometimes alternatively as the "Mexico City Policy." This is a policy that Republi...
25 Jan 201722min
