Can ISIS Be Contained? The White House is Betting On It
It was a year ago this week that the Iraqi city of Mosul--the second largest city in country--fell to ISIS. The loss of Mosul sparked a re-examination of US policy toward Iraq and ISIS. And just this ...
10 Jun 201527min
Episode 68: Olivier Bancoult and Chagossian Exile
The Chagos Archipelago is a group of islands situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean. You may have heard of the largest of these Islands, Diego Garcia, because it is home to a strategically importa...
7 Jun 201541min
What Air Conditioners Can Teach Us About International Development
What's the relationship between air conditioning, air temperature and income levels? In other words, at what income level and in what climate zones do people opt to purchase A/C? The answer to these q...
3 Jun 201517min
Episode 67: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who in April published the book Ashley's War, which tells the story of a group of female soldiers who accompanied sp...
1 Jun 201537min
Why Most Foreign Aid Does Not Go To the Poorest Countries
Here's a statistic that may surprise you: most foreign aid does not go to the poorest countries on earth. In fact, only about 30% of official development assistance from donor governments goes to the ...
27 Mai 201521min
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis
A dangerous game of human pingpong is underway in the Adaman Sea between Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim minority primarily from Myanmar, are adrift at sea. ...
20 Mai 201525min
Episode 65: Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Jean-Marie Guéhenno is the president of the International Crisis Group and long serving head of UN Peacekeeping. He comes from an interesting background--his father was a well known French intellectua...
15 Mai 201537min
Burundi on a Knife's Edge
Burundi is in the midst of a deepening political crisis that has many observers extremely worried about the prospects of mass violence. Dozens of people have been killed and tens of thousands of peopl...
13 Mai 201521min
