Out To Get Us
Tribalism: Who is "other"? Ambassador Bob Beecroft recalls the atrocities in the Balkans of the late '90s, after which DNA tests revealed that the victims and the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" we...
29 Feb 202451min
Crowing about President Crow
A Million Downloads! Yes, you did it for us. Here to celebrate with us is ASU President Michael Crow. Think vision meets design meets global reach. The goal? Access and energize the full level of hum...
22 Feb 202430min
"You're Calling Us Global Terrorists? Oooh, Scare Me."
The Houthis: Who actually are these people? And Yemen: What is this place? Is it really a country? Yemen is engaged in a two-fronted, 10-year civil war, and this began long before the war in Gaza. Do...
15 Feb 202445min
A Rangel Fellow's Journey to Service - BHM
Young foreign service officer Hermanoschy Bernard joins us in honor of Black History Month to share his story of flight from his native Haiti as a child to life in the US as a political asylee, where ...
8 Feb 202446min
Don't Poke the Panda - Taiwan's Election
Ambassador Richard Boucher joins us to contextualize Taiwan's recent election in its deliberately ambiguous relationship with mainland China. No big news is good news as Taiwan preserves its integrit...
1 Feb 202437min
No More Funny Business in Guatemala (For Now)
Frank Mora, US Ambassador to the Organization of American States, helps us understand a diplomatic win: the (barely) peaceful transfer of power following Guatemala's election of an outsider who is a t...
25 Jan 202435min
The Border, Part 2: This is North America's Moment
Amb. Tony Wayne is back to go into depth on the US-Mexico border's two greatest challenges. How did drug trafficking become even more sinister than it was before? And can we improve the immigration ...
18 Jan 202429min
Zone of Opportunity: Trust at the Border
Did you know that $1.5M dollars in trade cross the US/Mexico border every single minute? Did you know that 5 million US jobs depend on the trade that takes place there? Ambassador Tony Wayne explain...
11 Jan 202431min
