Who Controls the Internet?
Over the past decade, the internet’s role in international affairs has expanded, with governments, including India’s, periodically shutting down the internet; great powers, like Russia in the 2016 US ...
3 Maj 202123min
Is the US a Flawed Democracy?
The United States has long considered itself the world's bastion of democracy. However, independent analysis currently doesn't support that belief, and the Economist Intelligence Unit's annual Democra...
1 Apr 202125min
A "New START" for Nuclear Weapons
In the early 1990s, the US and the USSR signed the first of a series of treaties designed to limit the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons. In this episode of Big World, SIS professor Sharon W...
1 Mars 202128min
Black Masculinity & the Wage Earner Ideal
Amidst the long-overdue reckoning with systemic racism in the US and globally, an area of study that focuses on the lives of Black people and seeks to more fully share a totality of Black experience h...
1 Feb 202125min
The Long Shadow of the Long '60s
The 1960s started 60 years ago, but the shadow cast by that decade in the US is long. It was a decade that fundamentally changed how the US treats our citizens and views our role in the world. In this...
4 Jan 202123min
Russia-US Relations After Trump
Russia is defined, at least in part, by its relationship with the United States. In January 2021, US leadership will transition again, and the world's most significant dysfunctional relationship will ...
1 Dec 202023min
The Politics of Food
It is not surprising that food—something so universal yet so individual and culturally specific—would have a place in foreign policy. In this episode, SIS professor Johanna Mendelson Forman joins Big ...
2 Nov 202022min
Can US Policing Be Redeemed?
Breonna Taylor. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. George Floyd. The list of names goes on and on and on. They are US citizens killed by the police. They are all Black. And those two facts are inextricably l...
1 Okt 202027min
