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Climate Change: A Growth Industry? with David Wallace-Wells
Episode 37
Bike to work. Go vegan. Stop washing your hair. It’s not going to move the needle on climate change. There is, however, some reason for hope. Ian get…
7 years, 3 months ago
The World's Largest Democracy Scans Voters' Eyes with Raghuram Rajan
Episode 36
The world's biggest democracy heads to the polls. It's also expanding the world's largest biometric ID system to track 1.3 billion people. A man who …
7 years, 3 months ago
Life After the Mueller Report with Preet Bharara
Episode 35
By now you know what's in the Mueller report and the spin-masters have told you what to think. But the most important takeaway isn't only about Trump…
7 years, 3 months ago
Iraq After ISIS with Ben Taub
Episode 34
After the ISIS caliphate fell in Iraq, a question hung over much of the country. What comes next? On today's show Ian talks to Ben Taub, a New Yorker…
7 years, 3 months ago
Greece's Dark Decade with Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Episode 33
In bailing out Greece did the European Union destroy the village in order to save it? Today on the show, Ian dives deep into the Greek debt crisis to…
7 years, 3 months ago
10% Less Crazy w/ U.S. Ambassador Tom Pickering.
Episode 31
By the end of this episode, you're going to feel 10% less crazy about the world. Ian makes his case and then sits down with a man who's worked everyw…
7 years, 4 months ago
Mexico Rising (For Now) / with Mexico's former Foreign Minister, Jorge Castañeda
Episode 31
Mexico's new president is having a moment. Since his election last year, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO for short, has enjoyed sky-high approva…
7 years, 4 months ago
Leaving Afghanistan w/ General Stanley McChrystal
Episode 30
The war in Afghanistan has gone on so long that people born after 9/11 can now enlist. So how do we get out? Ian digs into it and then talks to someo…
7 years, 4 months ago
Ain't Nuthin but a 5G Thang w/ Keyu Jin
Episode 29
The development of 5G, or 5th generation mobile networks, is such a big deal that it's been compared to the invention of electricity. There's only on…
7 years, 4 months ago
It's The End of The World as We Know It with Richard Haass
Episode 28
The global order is fraying...and it's not entirely Trump's doing. In this week's episode Ian charts the unraveling of key global alliances and sits …
7 years, 4 months ago