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There’s a new focus this election season in India, a new type of influencer, the ‘Netizen.’ But what does this really mean for the democratic process?
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Plus, a surprising story about reality TV in Kenya
Bought by WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Chickens cannot fly. That’s according to Air India, India’s national airline. It has just announced that it’s going to stop serving non-vegetaria...
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
A spate of lynchings in India has Sandip thinking that the U.S. and his home country are not so different.
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Today we welcome to our studio Aurelian Craiutu, author of the recent book The Faces of Moderation. We’ll focus primarily on the art of “trimming” ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 58:07
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
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
Has Beijing decided that Trump represents a great opportunity to win power and influence at America's expense? President Xi Jinping led the charge ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:39
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
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
When you are proud of your country, pride about its national symbols follows naturally. The Indian Court in its wisdom has flipped that equation pr...
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 06:00
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
A joint Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi – a Pakistani and an Indian. Now if that doesn’t embarrass the two belligerent...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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
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
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
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
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
What French intervention in Africa this week can tell us about the importance of avoiding failed states and safe havens.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 02:11
What homemaking tips from a female terrorist can tell us about the risks posed by the process of radicalizing the next generation of militants.
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 02:12
What Indonesia's snub of Australia over a phone hacking scandal can tell us about the importance in diplomacy of just asking nicely.
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 02:16
What the increasingly deperate gestures of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro can tell us about the illusions of oil-financed socialism.
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 01:57
What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 02:23
What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 02:07
