Podcast Episodes

Follow the Science

2020 will probably be remembered as the year of COVID. Our guest has long worked at the intersection of science, politics, and policy. Dr. Ali Nouri, a molecular biologist, is the President of the Fe…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Live and Let Live

Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka believes that zoonotic disease is controllable by simultaneously working to improve the health of humans and animals, at the points where they meet.

2020 will be remembered…

Published on 5 years ago

Democracy in America

The U.S. election has come, but not quite gone as President Trump continues to resist the otherwise apparent victory of Joe Biden.

The U.S. election has come, but not quite gone as President Trump c…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

Amazonian Armageddon

Once again, the Amazon is burning—and deforestation may be approaching a tipping point that could turn the world’s largest rain forest into dry savanna or even dessert.  What are the potential conseq…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

Has China won?

The competition between China and the United States is the defining geopolitical reality of the 21st century. The evolution of its new Great Game will determine whether our collective future will be …

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

Happy (?) Birthday

The United Nations turned 75 this year—but the pandemic overwhelmed its birthday party. The UN, built in a different world, has succeeded in its core mission: preventing World War III. But is the UN,…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

Battlegrounds

General H.R. McMaster, a highly decorated U.S. military officer, discusses how he believes the U. S. and like-minded countries can maneuver through today’s complicated global realities to produce pea…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

Migrants (barely) Surviving

Like a great magician, the pandemic has drawn our attention away from things that are hiding in plain sight. One of those has been the plight of millions of refugees and migrants who are in refugee c…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

A World Divided

The world's a mess. The great powers today, the Chinese and the Americans, seem to disagree on most things.

The world's a mess. The great powers today, the Chinese and the Americans, seem to disagre…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

Africa Agonistes

South Sudan celebrated its hard-won independence in 2011, but today is considered one of the most fragile, even failed states in the world.

South Sudan celebrated its hard-won independence in 2011, b…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago