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Larry Brilliant and Peter Hotez: Vaccinating Our Way Out of the Pandemic
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Dr. Larry Brilliant, best known for eradicating Smallpox, and Dr. Peter Hotez, who is part of a team developing a low-cost COVID vaccine for global...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Redefining Latino Identity
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Join co-host Ray Suarez and VICE's Paola Ramos for a conversation on how communities from New York to Texas and California are defining the controv...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The Lure of Authoritarianism + Biden’s Foreign Policy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this episode, we’re looking at the Biden Administration’s foreign policy challenges and how Trump compares to past authoritarian leaders.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Is Trump Setting Too Many Fires for Biden to Put Out?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, career diplomat Nicholas Burns talks with Ray Suarez about the Trump Administration’s recent maneuvers abroad and how to rebuild U...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Does The Perfect Healthcare System Exist?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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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
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China vs. the US: A Superpower Showdown
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’ll take a look at China’s economic rise to power. Wall Street Journal correspondent Lingling Wei and her editor, Bob Davis, explain h...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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A Big Deal, Not a Peace Deal
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This month, Israel signed deals with two Gulf States on the White House South Lawn. These are the first Arab-Israel agreements in 25 years, known a...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Universal Basic Income: Does it Work?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What if we could lower COVID-19 rates all over the world with one program? It’s not a medical innovation, but an economic one. If all the world’s c...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Coronavirus and Sub-Saharan Africa
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re looking at Uganda and Rwanda, two countries who have fought pandemics before and were ready for this one. Both countries have lost...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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How Developing Nations Are Fighting COVID-19...And Winning
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Even with its close proximity to China, where the pandemic started, parts of Southeast Asia have managed to control the coronavirus far better than...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Russia, Afghanistan and America’s Longest War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we take a closer look at how the war in Afghanistan has served as a proxy conflict between the US and Russia and how it fits into ...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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'Novel Voices' by Carr-Petrova / #50Days4Refugees - Jelling Denmark
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Novel Voices podcast by Carr-Petrova
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The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project, created and directed by the Carr-Petrova Duo, is designed to give voice and visibility, through music and fil...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 18:36
Untangling the Yemen Crisis
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
According to the UN, Yemen has become the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. War crimes are rampant. The U.S. is pouring billions of dollars in...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Responding to Rogue States
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
At the United Nations last year, President Trump labelled North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela “rogue States.” Since then, the Trump Administrat...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
"It Had To Be -Un [Kim Jong]" In the Department of Poetic Justice (and the Great American Wrongbook)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Off to the links..., Credit: Susan Cook photo
A musical tribute to the most recent historic meeting of minds between You Know Who. And Who Else, to the tune from the 1924 tune "It Had To Be Yo...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:46
The North Korea Summit
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
The United States and North Korea — two countries that fought a brutal war and never made peace. Last March, the two countries agreed to hold a hi...

  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:24
Jesner v. Arab Bank
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
On Wednesday, October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank, a case that will determine if corporations can be sue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:04
International Law and the Trump Administration
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
Don't miss the latest "Talking Foreign Policy," the radio program hosted by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Michael Scharf on Cl...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Honoring Alan: Why the West Can't Shut Out Refugees
From: Jarrod Sport
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In this audio documentary, Tima Kurdi, the aunt of Alan, shares why the West has a responsibility to support refugees fleeing warfare and destabili...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 19:18
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EP 9 Can You Have 2 Bulls In The China Shop
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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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
Art, Diplomacy, and Accountability
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
A panel of international experts from London, Washington, and Cleveland -- including the Director of the International Bar Association, an Internat...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Meeting the Immediate and Long-term Needs of the Displaced
From: Mateo Schimpf
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According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in 2014 there were nearly 60 million refugees and IDPs worldwide — the high...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
Unspun More Cynical Than Alex Scrivener of Global Justice Now
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Alex Scrivener
Unspun sits down with Alex Scrivener, Policy Officer at Global Justice Now in London. They recently released a report, Gated Development – is t...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:09
  • Purchases: 1
National Security and the Presidential Primaries
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
Combatting ISIS, relations with China, and immigration policy have emerged as major issues in the 2016 Presidential Primaries. In this broadcast o...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Unspun Discusses the Secret TPP Trade Deal with Kathryn Johnson, Advocate for Fair Trade and Human Rights
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Kathryn Johnson
Kathryn Johnson joins us to discuss the recently divulged Trans Pacific Partnership, TPP. Kathryn is the Policy Impact Coordinator with the Office...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:23
  • Purchases: 1