Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters

There is a catastrophe underway in the Syrian city  of  Aleppo. The city has been at the center of fighting since the civil war broke out in 2011, but in recent weeks the battle for Aleppo has become ...

10 Aug 201623min

Derek Chollet is the author of the new book The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World.  Derek served in a number of foreign policy positions in the Obama adm...

29 Jul 201649min

There catastrophe is looming in southern Africa. This year's historically intense El Nino sparked a region-wide drought that has decimated harvests. The area was already prone to food insecurity, but ...

27 Jul 201617min

Arsalan Iftikhar is the author of the new book Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms. Arsalan is a human rights lawyer by training and was one of the original guest...

22 Jul 201628min

Helen Clark is a candidate to become the next UN Secretary General. She's the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving from 1999 to 2008 and is currently the head of the United Nations Developmen...

20 Jul 201630min

Priscilla Clapp had a 30 year career in the state department, which ended in 2002 as the top US official in Burma. She also served in top positions in South Africa in the early 1990s during the transi...

15 Jul 20161h 14min

If you follow US politics even just slightly you will probably be surprised to learn that Congress actually did something last week. And deeper still, the action they took was broadly in the service o...

13 Jul 201616min

Lauren Wolfe is an award winning journalist who covers sexual violence in conflict. She's the director of the Women Under Siege project, which is a journalistic endeavor founded by Gloria Steinem as p...

10 Jul 201645min