Eagle Pass: What it's like to live in an infamous border town
Eagle Pass has shared a border with Mexico for generations, but recently it's become the center of a heated political debate over illegal immigration. An influx of migrants, and surge of Texas Nationa...
11 Feb 202415min
An internationalist's guide to America’s spectacle: Super Bowl LVIII, Swift and Vegas
Reuters global sports editor Ossian Shine has traveled the earth covering the world’s biggest sporting events: Olympics, World Cups and Grands Prix. Now, he’ll experience America’s biggest spectacle f...
10 Feb 202429min
Biden’s memory, Pakistan’s next government and human ashes on the moon
President Biden has hit back against a special counsel’s report which described him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”. As counting continues after Pakistan’s general election, we loo...
9 Feb 202412min
Ukraine aid, Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview and Congo’s M23 rebels
Democrats have promised a vote on Thursday on a bill to give military aid to Ukraine after Senate Republicans blocked a border security bill that included the funding. Tucker Carlson has said his inte...
8 Feb 202412min
Hamas' counteroffer, GOP border battles, Trump and Prince William's duties
Hamas has proposed a ceasefire plan that would halt fighting in Gaza for four-and-a-half months. Donald Trump has moved closer to an unprecedented criminal trial after a federal appeals court rejected...
7 Feb 202413min
Blinken’s Middle East mission, border deal backlash and Hollywood shrinks
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Middle East as part of the US’s push for peace. A bipartisan Senate bill on border security faces a Republican backlash in the House of Representatives. Hol...
6 Feb 202412min
US strikes Iran-backed groups, Dem kingmaker and China targets Australian writer
The United States intends to launch further strikes at Iran-backed groups in the Middle East after hitting Tehran-aligned factions in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. We sit down with Democrat kingmaker Jim Cly...
5 Feb 202412min
The ‘dirty’ debate over mining for clean energy in America
Ernest Scheyder, Reuters senior correspondent and author of the new book THE WAR BELOW, joins the podcast to examine the many challenges that lie ahead for mining for clean energy in the US. Environm...
4 Feb 202422min
