Podcast: James Goldgeier on Russia election interference and “bridging the gap” between academics and policy makersJames Goldgeier is the dean of the school for international service at American University. He’s spent a career trying to...
PODCAST: What North Korea WantsSubscribe on iTunes, Stitcher or get the app to listen later. Why does North Korea keep testing its nuclear capabilities,...
Is Torture Making a Comeback?Will Trump bring back torture as US policy? He promised it on the campaign trail. And just days into office,...
PODCAST: The Crisis in Northern Nigeria, Fighting Ebola, and Lessons Learned from a Career in Disaster ReliefMy podcast guest Jeremy Konyndyk recently left his post as the top US global humanitarian relief official and has many...
What We Mean When We Talk About “Foreign Aid” Foreign aid is one of those issues that is pretty widely mis-understood by the general public. Could you guess...
This Syria Expert Thinks the War is Basically OverAs the Syria civil war enters its seventh year, the outcome of the conflict no longer seems in doubt. With...
Famine Strikes South Sudan. UN Warns Three Other Countries Could be Next. One of the Biggest Catastrophes of a GenerationFamine kills children first. Famine does not simply mean “lack of food.” Rather it is a threshold against which indicators...
An Insider Describes How the Trump Administration is Shaking Up the State DepartmentDiplomacy runs in Bathsheba Crocker’s family. Sheba and her father Chester Crocker are the first parent-child combination to have both...
PODCAST: Is “Gross National Happiness” the New GDP?(World Government Summit, Dubai) – One of the key themes running through this conference is that happiness is not simply...