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In this episode, we hear from US Congressman Andy Kim about how the power competition between China and the US creates fear and anxiety on the home...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In this episode, we’re partnering with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University to talk about the state of dem...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week, we talk with Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole and two political activists on opposite sides of the Brexit debate.

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, former FBI special agent Michael German explains why the bureau deprioritized the threat posed by white supremacists. Then, historian Ne...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat has spent her career warning about the stealth strategies authoritarian leaders use to gain power. In her new book, Strong...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week’s episode, we revisit a conversation about the future of the global economy with James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey ...

Bought by Classic107.3, WHRV, WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, compels us to take a deeper look at elite leaders, their i...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week we’re looking at how to solve food insecurity around the world. We’ll hear from nonprofit leaders working on the frontlines and a doctor ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel joins co-host Ray Suarez to compare different healthcare systems around the world. Then, producer Teresa Cotsirilos ...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. The latest: "It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We look at the question of whether addicts have free will, as it played out in a case in the Supreme Court in 1987, and the Massachusetts Supreme C...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 47:10
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Only days after announcing that the one China policy was no-good under a Trump Administration, U.S. President Donald Trump changed tack, stiffed Ta...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
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If the Constitution is an “invitation to struggle” between the President and Congress over the making of foreign policy, today it could be describe...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
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Finally, after years of gestation and convoluted, secretive negotiations under President Obama, the Trans Pacific Partnership passed away in its sl...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
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As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:50
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Mongolia's religious preferences center around the Dalia Lama. China's don't. Mongolia invited the Dalia Lama to pay homage to his lineage, China s...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:49
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The Dalai Lama will not be invited to Mongolia again after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's recent trip there angered China, which considers h...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
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An underwater research drone was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
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President-elect Donald Trump's telephone conversation with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-Wen, broke 4 decades of U.S./Taiwan diplomatic protocol, enr...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 04:48
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Conventional Wisdom says the Industrial Revolution passed China by. But is this a true interpretation of history?

  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
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What a popular new hand gesture in France can tell us about the line between offensive and racist.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
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What recently discovered personal letters from a senior Nazi can tell us about the uncomfortably familiar face of evil.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
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What the growing gender gap in China can tell us about future threats to an increasingly worried Communist Party leadership in Beijing.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:56
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What delays in completing preparation in Brazil for the World Cup can tell us about the pros and cons of hosting global sporting events.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 01:58
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What the execution of the North Korean supreme leader’s uncle can tell us about the future stability of this isolated, and impoverished, country.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:12