Live From Kabul — The World's First Capital Facing Total Water Collapse
Kabul is running out of water. If present trends continue, the capital of Afghanistan could run completely dry by 2030. There are several reasons for this. The first is climate change: there is less s...
20 Nov 202524min
A Brilliant New Biography Tells the Story of the Cold War Era UN Secretary General U-Thant
U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations. He assumed the role following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash in the Congo in 1961, and soon became...
17 Nov 202534min
How the UN General Assembly Can Get Its Peace and Security Groove Back
My interview guest today, Axel Marschik, is a veteran Austrian diplomat who has thought extensively about how the General Assembly can play a more robust role in peace and security when the Security C...
13 Nov 202525min
How Tanzania's Fraudulent Elections Sparked an Unusual Protest Movement
On October 29, Tanzania held national presidential elections — and lo and behold, incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan "won" with a staggering 98% of the vote. Everyone knew what was going on. The ...
10 Nov 202535min
When Treaties Work: The Biological Weapons Convention
2025 marks 50 years of the Biological Weapons Convention. Back in 1975, the treaty entered into force, and by banning biological weapons worldwide, it became the first global treaty to prohibit a part...
6 Nov 202529min
A Genocidal Massacre is Underway in Sudan
About a year and a half ago, I published an episode of Global Dispatches titled "A Genocidal Massacre Is Looming in Darfur." At the time, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces had conquered nearly all...
2 Nov 202524min
Live From Cameroon: What's Driving The Political Unrest
Cameroonians went to the polls earlier this month in national elections, and on October 27th, a constitutional commission packed with loyalists confirmed that 92-year-old incumbent Paul Biya had won a...
30 Okt 202525min
North Korea is Getting Even More Repressive
North Korea has been extremely repressive for a very long time. But over the last several years, the crackdowns have gotten worse. New reporting from The Economist shows how the regime is clamping dow...
27 Okt 202526min
