Podcast: Meet Jeffrey Smith. Meet Jeffrey Smith: A thorn in the side of Africa’s dinosaur presidents Mark Leon Goldberg June 26, 2017 My guest today Jeffrey Smith helps bring down Africa's "presidents for life." His organization, Vanguard Africa, is very new but they already have one success under their belt-- assisting the peaceful tran...
The latest World Population Facts and Figures Were Just Released By the UN Mark Leon Goldberg June 22, 2017 Pop Quiz: how many people are in the world right now? The answer is 7.6 billion. That data point and much more are contained in a just-released report called "World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revisi...
PODCAST: The UN just wrapped up Its first-ever oceans conference. Here’s What happened. Mark Leon Goldberg June 19, 2017 Gregory Stone once lived underwater for 30 days. He is an ocean scientist and author who has spent a career studying and advocating on behalf of our oceans. He's now with an executive vice president with C...
Is Right Wing Populism on the Decline in Europe? Because of Trump? A Member of the European Parliament Explains. Mark Leon Goldberg June 15, 2017 Marietje Schaake is a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. We caught up shortly after a series of consequential elections in Europe, including the victory of Emmanuel Macron in France an...
Saudi Arabia moves against Qatar. The Newest Crisis in the Middle East, Explained Mark Leon Goldberg June 8, 2017 Saudi Arabia and its close allies in the region moved against Qatar, cutting off sea and air travel and moving to isolate their fellow sunni Gulf country. Enter: the next big crisis in the Middle East. ...
PODCAST: The Fallout Begins from Trump’s Decision to Leave the Paris Agreement Mark Leon Goldberg June 5, 2017 Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement In the wake of this decision, I wanted to get a sense of the consequences to both the climate change goals embedded in the Par...
This is What Political Science Teaches Us About the Killing of Journalists Mark Leon Goldberg May 25, 2017 We are nearly six months into the year and already nice journalists have been killed in 2017, including four in Mexico alone. That figure comes from Reporters Without Borders and is part of a larger data se...
PODCAST: Journalist Jill Filipovic Chats Reproductive Health Care, the Global Gag Rule, and the Feminist Pursuit of Happiness Mark Leon Goldberg May 21, 2017 Jill Filipovic is a Nairobi-based journalist and author of the new book The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness. Jill is someone I've known both online and in real life for many years. She is a con...
Trump’s First Foreign Trip Will Take Him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Europe. Here’s What You Need to Know Mark Leon Goldberg May 18, 2017 As I'm typing, the White House is busy doing damage control over news that Donald Trump revealed sensitive information to the Russians when he met wth the Russian ambassador and foreign minister the day aft...
