How Tunisia Became the Only Real Arab Spring Success Story
Safwan Masri set out with a simple question: of all the countries caught in the turmoil of the Arab Spring, how is it that Tunisia was the only country to successfully replace a long ruling despot wit...
25 Okt 201737min
Episode 168: 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Beatrice Fihn
Exactly two weeks to the day before this interview, Beatrice Fihn received a phone call from Norway. It was the Nobel Committee informing her that the NGO she leads, the International Campaign to Abol...
20 Okt 201748min
This Supreme Court Case Could Have a Big Impact on US Foreign Policy
A case that is pending before the Supreme Court of the United States could have profound implications for human rights and corporate social responsibility around the world. The case is called Jesner v...
18 Okt 201722min
Episode 167: Alexis Okeowo
Alexis Okeowo is a staff writer for the New Yorker whose debut book was published earlier this month. The book, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa has been ...
16 Okt 201749min
Will Trump Destroy the Iran Nuclear Deal?
President Trump is widely expected to decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal. But what decertification actually mean? And will this action destroy the Iran Nuclear Deal? On the line with me to discuss these ...
11 Okt 201724min
Can UN Peacekeepers Prevent the Central African Republic from Descending Deeper into Conflict?
The Central African Republic is facing some serious challenges right now. Four years ago, the country was on the brink of genocide after the longtime strongman Francois Bozize was ousted in an armed r...
6 Okt 201747min
What the Kurdish Independence Referendum Means for the Middle East
People in Kurdish region of Iraq have voted overwhelmingly for independence in a popular referendum that took place in late September. No country in the region wanted this referendum to happen--and ne...
4 Okt 201728min
Episode 166: Ambassador Keith Harper
When Keith Harper was confirmed as President Obama's Ambassador to the Human Rights Council he became the first American-Indian to achieve the rank of Ambassador. The longtime attorney for native Amer...
29 Sep 201756min
