Podcast Episodes

Looking for Justice, One Person at a Time

Sam Muller is building “people-centered justice” that works for everyone.

2023 looks likely to be a year of recession, inflation, social and labor unrest, war, the ravages of climate, food insecurity…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Worth Repeating: From the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner

David Kaplan believes that the food he and other scientists are growing in their labs can eventually feed a hungry world.

At least one in nine of the almost eight billion people who live on earth are…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Worth Repeating: Asia for the Asians—but which Asians?

Listen as C Raja Mohan explains how India can cope with a dangerous world and a dangerous neighbor.

We live in a complicated, conflicted world. Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine. US and European eff…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Worth Repeating: Who is Vladimir Putin?

Listen to Philip Short discuss how Putin looks at the world, what turned him away from a partnership with the West, and the risk that his war could go nuclear.

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine ebbs…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Dialogue of the deaf: Europe and China

Andrew Small explain how and why he thinks that the Chinese challenge is dramatically and dangerously changing.

As recently as September 2021, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel described econo…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Navigating the World, One Charity at a Time

Listen to Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator’s President and CEO, whose purpose is to bring transparency to philanthropy.

For many, the holiday season is a time of giving, when people think a bit mo…

Published on 3 years ago

Worth Repeating: Can Tech Save Us?

Can innovations be transformed into practical realities at the necessary speed and scale, and in ways that allow mankind to flourish?

Our world has become a weird combination of dangerous, existentia…

Published on 3 years ago

America Votes; Democracy Wins (Maybe)

Richard Gephardt and Scott Miller sift through the evidence and speculate on the future of democracy in America.

The US mid-term elections are (almost) over. We know the headlines: Democratic Senate,…

Published on 3 years ago

Worth Repeating: Live and Let Live

Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, a winner of the 2022 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prizes, believes that zoonotic disease is controllable by simultaneously working to improve the health of huma…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

What Does a Franco-German Split Mean for Europe?

Laure Mandeville and Friedbert Pflüger discuss how Europe can recover if the French and Germans can't figure out how to work together?

Europe is in a bad place: the war in Ukraine, energy crisis, inf…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago