Ambassador Christopher Hill on Syria's Stalemate and Trump's Middle East
Syria's bloody stalemate enters its eighth year on March 15. Hundreds of thousands have died, and millions have been displaced. Solutions have evaded the international community, and as Syria descends...
13 Mar 201827min
Princeton's Harold James Asks: Will AI Make Us Stupid?
While smart people disagree on what artificial intelligence will mean for humanity, there is little question that AI will change how people work, relax, and relate to one another. Harold James thinks ...
27 Feb 201821min
Atul Gawande Asks Katherine Semrau How We Can Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande interviews Katherine Semrau, an epidemiologist who leads the Better Birth program at Ariadne Labs, about how to improve maternal and newborn health worldwide in a speci...
13 Feb 201829min
Nina Khrushcheva on Russia in 2018 and Beyond
With President Vladimir Putin the only viable candidate in the presidential election in March, a fourth term is all but guaranteed. Yet, as The New School’s Nina Khrushcheva explains, what isn’t certa...
30 Jan 201825min
CFR's Rachel Vogelstein on the Economic Case for Gender Equality
The intersection of gender and power is among the most important social and political issues of our time. But as the Council on Foreign Relations’ Rachel Vogelstein argues, gender equality is an econo...
16 Jan 201822min
Andrew Sheng on China’s Corruption Conundrum
Vows to target corruption are as old as the modern Chinese state itself, but President Xi Jinping has made rooting it out a signature piece of his governing strategy. As PS contributor Andrew Sheng no...
27 Des 201723min
Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel Measures the GOP’s Tax Plan
Jeffrey Frankel, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a former member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, outlines the five criteria he uses to ju...
12 Des 201723min
Keetie Roelen on the Psychosocial Side of Poverty
Solutions to poverty are varied, and include improvements to education, agriculture, health care, and even transportation. But as Keetie Roelen, co-director of the Center for Social Protection at the ...
5 Des 201722min
