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Biden and Xi Walk into a Room… Will They Continue to Play Nice?
During APEC, President Xi Jinping reminded world leaders that China is “open for business.” So what does the next era of US-China relations look like? Ivan Kanapathy, Senior Associ...
The Covert War on LGBT+ Rights
While the past year has seen major gains for LGBT+ rights, politicians around the world are increasingly using the community as scapegoats. Julie Dorf, Co-Chair of the Council for ...
How American Radicalism Inspired the Most Homophobic Law on Earth
This year, Uganda enacted one of the harshest anti-LGBT+ laws in the world, making homosexuality punishable by death. Ugandan Human Rights activist Dr. Frank Mugisha joins Ray Suar...
Beyond Oil and Uncle Sam: MBS's Decade of Bold Reforms
Can economic power-brokering overcome decades of repression and human rights abuses? Karen Elliott House has covered Saudi Arabia for over four decades, and the Pulitzer-Prize repo...
Are Saudi-Israel Talks Dead in the Water?
Saudi Arabia has embarked on a bold vision of innovation, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated aims for a long war on Gaza could interrupt Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salma...
Poverty? Climate Disaster? Are World Bank Bonds the Solution?
By 2030, around 600 million people will be struggling with extreme poverty. And the effects of climate change will only exacerbate the problem. Jorge Familiar joins Ray Suarez to s...
Is US Wealth Inequality Undermining Democracy?
What do you need to know about wealth to understand structural inequality in America? Becoming wealthy is getting harder with each generation, and the biggest predictor of whether ...
Secretary Robert Gates on Israel’s Retaliation, and What Biden Does Next
Thousands have been killed in the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas, and a ground invasion into Gaza appears imminent. Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates predicts ...
How the Palestinian Question Could Unravel Netanyahu’s “New Middle East”
On October 7, Hamas, an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist group, broke through the high-tech security barrier which divides Israel from the Gaza Strip, and launched a coordinated surp...
Bye Bye Boomers, Hello Perennials
While many Baby Boomers have already left the workforce behind, almost half are considering coming out of retirement in search of a new purpose in life. Leading sociologist and bus...
Putin’s Victory in the South Caucasus
How does Russia benefit from conflict in the Caucasus? And what role can the media play in building bridges of understanding? In this episode, we revisit our conversations with Rus...
Whose Sovereignty Is It Anyway? Armenia's ICC Bid For Justice with Sheila Paylan
In late September, Azerbaijan wiped out the self-proclaimed, ethnically Armenian Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. The attacks prompted Armenia to finally join the International Crimin...
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