Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University, joins us to talk about how the current breakdown of international trade agreements eerily resembles the run-up to the First World War.
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Are We Safer Since 9/11?
Janet Napolitano joins us to take stock of our post-9/11 efforts to root out terrorism without crippling our free society. Her new book is called “How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11.”
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Millennials Come Of Age In A One-Child China
Karoline Kan joins us to talk about how her experiences growing up in China differed from older family members – including her mother who defied the country’s One-Child Policy when she gave birth to Karoline. Her new memoir is called “Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China.”
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Terrorism Is The Least Of Our Problems
Political scientist Micah Zenko joins us to talk about why – relative to other time periods – we’ve never had less to worry about. His new book, written with Michael A. Cohen, is called “Clear & Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”
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We Can’t Stop Climate Change: Here Is What We Can Do
Roger Sedjo joins us to talk about global warming as two parallel tracks: One focused on slowing global warming and another planning for its inevitability. His new book is called “Surviving Global Warming: Why Eliminating Greenhouse Gases Isn’t Enough.”
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Why We Think We’re Ready for Natural Disasters And Why We’re Wrong
Seismologist Lucy Jones joins us to talk about the long-term psychological toll natural disasters have on the people who experience them. Her book “The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (And What We Can Do About Them)” has just been released in paperback.
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The Crazy Ideas With Potential To Change The World
Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall joins host Krys Boyd to talk about strategies for breaking through the conventional group think to turn bold ideas into reality.
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A Former U.S. Diplomat On Trump’s Foreign Policy
Former diplomat William J Burns joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the continued importance of “soft power” in the wake of President Trump’s call for 23 percent cut in the State Department funding.
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No Refuge: An Asylum Story Gone Wrong
Texas Tribune reporter Jay Root joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the physical and financial risks of asylum seekers putting their family’s life in the hands of smugglers.
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What We Owe the Global Village
Kwame Anthony Appiah joins us to make the case that patriotism and cosmopolitanism are not mutually exclusive ideas. His essay “The Importance of Elsewhere” appears in the current issue of Foreign Affairs.
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Demography Is Destiny
Paul Morland, associate research fellow at the University of London, joins us to discuss how shifting populations have brought on political movements and led to the rise and fall of nations. His new book is called “The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World.”
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Where You Live Determines How You Live
Jan Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project and senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about why some counties are championing income equality – and about what struggling countries can do to catch up.
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