Hate Speech is on the Rise in Poland
Last week, the Polish Senate passed a law that would make it a criminal offense to claim that Poland was complicit in Nazi crimes. The Israeli government strongly opposed this measure, as do most peop...
2 Feb 201831min
Episode 179: Max Boot
Max Boot is a foreign policy commentator and historian. Just this week he was named a contributing writer to the Op-ed page of the Washington Post. He is the author of several books; his most recent ...
31 Jan 201835min
Donald Trump's Nuclear Weapons Policy is Radically Different from His Predecessors
You've may of the Doomsday Clock. This is a rubric created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at the dawn of the nuclear age to demonstrate how close humanity is to nuclear annihilation. Midnight sy...
25 Jan 201830min
A Crisis in Cameroon is Forcing Anglophones to Flee the Country
Over 10,000 people have fled from English speaking regions of Cameroon to neighboring Nigeria in recent weeks. They are escaping an ongoing crackdown by Cameroonian security forces against a movement ...
24 Jan 201833min
Mexican Towns Are Taking Security Into Their Own Hands
Tancintaro, Mexico claims to be the "avocado capital" of the world, selling one million dollars worth of the fruit per day. But what makes Tancitaro truly interesting is that the orchards--and the tow...
21 Jan 201835min
A School in India is Trying to Disrupt the Caste System
Shanti Bhavan is a school in the Tamil Nadu state of southern India that serves children from the Dalit community. These are the some of the poorest children in the country. Systemic inequality has ke...
17 Jan 201832min
Episode 177: Robert Malley is the new head of the International Crisis Group
Robert Malley is the new president and CEO of the International Crisis Group. He took over on January 1st. The International Crisis Group, of course, provides the public and policymakers with analysis...
10 Jan 201853min
What Big Data Can Teach Us About Terrorism
At the very end of last year I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the United States Institute of Peace that served as the launch of a new report called the Global Terrorism Index. This is a o...
5 Jan 201828min
