What we get wrong about Taiwan, with Paul Huang
Last week Tsai Ing-wen, president of Taiwan, and Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, met in California. Katie Stallard speaks to Paul Huang, a research fellow at the Taiwanese ...
10 Apr 202320min
The people of the state of New York vs Donald Trump
On Tuesday, the former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, amid allegations that he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 ...
6 Apr 202334min
Why the Russian Orthodox Church supports the war in Ukraine, with Katherine Kelaidis
As the Ukraine war continues, one of the strongest supporters of Vladimir Putin has been Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Katherine Kelaidis, author of a new book on the Church, ...
3 Apr 202322min
Israel chaos: has Benjamin Netanyahu lost control?
On Monday, after protests swept the country and trade unions threatened major strikes, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he was delaying his controversial judicial reforms pa...
30 Mar 202326min
Are the Israeli protests the end of Benjamin Netanyahu?
Protests continue in Israel and many trade unions have called immediate strikes over Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed reforms to the judiciary, which critics say will turn the country into a dictatorship...
27 Mar 202318min
Best friends forever? What we learned from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Moscow
On Wednesday Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement in Moscow promising to deepen their strategic partnership and stressing the importance of “settling the Ukraine crisis through dialo...
23 Mar 202338min
Macron’s pensions gamble, with Georgina Wright
The French president Emmanuel Macron’s government narrowly survived a confidence vote after it invoked a contentious article of the constitution to override parliament and pass an unpopular reform to ...
22 Mar 202321min
Will the Iranian protesters succeed? With Dina Nayeri
As protests against the Iranian regime continue, Megan Gibson speaks to the award-winning writer Dina Nayeri, whose latest book is Who Gets Believed When the Truth Isn’t Enough?They discuss the uprisi...
20 Mar 202334min
