Global Dispatches Podcast

Arif Hussain is the chief economist of the World Food Program. It is his job to track food prices and other variables that contribute to food security. We last spoke on the podcast 15 months ago, just before th...

It was a combination of imperial ambition and white supremacy that inspired the advent of the field of global health in the 19th century -- and that colonialist legacy can still be seen in the practice of globa...

On April 19th, the government of Chad announced that longtime president Idriss Deby had died from wounds sustained while visiting troops at the front-lines. Chadian government forces were battling a rebellion w...

When COVID-19 forced countries to impose widespread lockdowns last year, there was a concurrent surge in gender based violence and domestic abuse. The United Nations has called this a "shadow pandemic" in which...

India is currently in the midst the single worst spike in COVID cases experienced anywhere in the world since the start of the pandemic. At time of recording, India was registering over 350,000 new cases eac...

On April 22 and 23rd, the White House hosted a virtual Climate Leaders Summit which featured more than 40 world leaders. Joe Biden kicked off the summit with a major announcement that the United States has set ...

On April 14th President Joe Biden announced that American troops will be leaving Afghanistan by September 11, 2021--the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that drew the US into Afghanistan in the first p...

The COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest iteration of what Charles Kenny calls "an unending war between humanity and infectious disease." His new book The Plague Cycle documents and describes how the course of ...