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Need to Know

72 episodes

The Need To Know podcast is a production of the Office of Congressional Relations at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Each episode we will bring our nonpartisan research to life through interviews with experts and practitioners covering the world. Our goal is to bring the best independent research, open dialogue and actionable ideas to congressional staff, policy makers, and anyone else who needs to know.

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Collateral Damage: Can the Abraham Accords Survive the Israel-Hamas War?

Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 8:26 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds

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Battling Malaria: The Global Fight Against a Deadly Foe

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 5:47 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 13 seconds

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Afghanistan After Two Years of Taliban Rule: Its pretty bad!

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 51 seconds

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Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis: The Plight of Afghan Refugees

Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds

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Increasing Competitiveness by Building a Better U.S.-Mexico Border

Published: July 24, 2023, 4:47 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds

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Mixed Signals: Is a US-China Cold War Heating Up or Cooling Down?

Published: June 26, 2023, 11:09 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 29 seconds

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Regulation

Published: May 31, 2023, 5:48 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds

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The Farm Bill: What do Farmers and Ranchers Want From the Legislation?

Published: May 2, 2023, 2:39 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

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Introduction to the Farm Bill

Published: April 4, 2023, 3:20 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds

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The Future of Cryptocurrency: Public Policy and Regulatory Challenges

Published: March 7, 2023, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds

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Border Security

Published: Feb. 15, 2023, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds

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Energy Security

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 8:03 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 15 seconds

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China: Strategic Interests, Protests, and the Future

Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 4:43 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds

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An Inside Look at the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference

Published: Nov. 28, 2022, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 2 seconds

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Examining Protests in Iran and the Arab World

Published: Nov. 2, 2022, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds

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The Arctic is Hot

Published: Sept. 9, 2022, 12:09 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 51 seconds

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What Will Really Happen If Speaker Pelosi Goes to Taiwan?

Published: Aug. 1, 2022, 7:16 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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Analyzing Refugee Challenges Using Lived Experience

Published: July 19, 2022, 6:28 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds

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100th Episode!

Published: July 8, 2022, 12:04 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 29 seconds

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Summit of the Americas Debrief

Published: June 13, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds

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A Cold War with China?

Published: May 31, 2022, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds

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The Great Wall of Steel - China's Global Campaign Against the Uyghurs

Published: May 20, 2022, 8:04 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds

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Latin Americas Leftists Arent Who You Think

Published: March 9, 2022, 9:06 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds

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Ukraine Invaded... Why?

Published: March 1, 2022, 7:58 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds

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A Briefing on Protests in Canada

Published: Feb. 14, 2022, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 43 seconds

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Relationships and Rivalries: Venezuela and Colombia

Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 7:19 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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Event Audio: Setting the Record Straight on NATO Enlargement | Amb. Green Interview with Robert Zoellick

Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 8:51 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds

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Relationships and Rivalries: "China's Tailored Capabilities to Strike Us" over Taiwan

Published: Jan. 26, 2022, 12:21 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 54 seconds

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Unrest in Kazakhstan

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 10 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 18 seconds

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Ukraine and A Sliding Scale of Horrors

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 9:33 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 59 seconds

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Relationships and Rivalries - A Fascinating Triangle in Asia

Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 10:53 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 28 seconds

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Relationships and Rivalries - China vs. India?

Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

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Relationships and Rivalries - Does North Korea Listen to China?

Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 41 seconds

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Relationships and Rivalries - Is the Way To China Through Europe?

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 7:17 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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Relationships and Rivalries - Mexico Leans Left?

Published: Oct. 29, 2021, 6:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Special Episode - A Conversation with Colombian President Ivan Duque

Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 seconds

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Special Event Episode - The Abraham Accords One Year Later

Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 10 seconds

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Techno-Totalitarianism? China's Cultural Crackdown

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 26 seconds

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Turkey Strikes Yazidis in Iraq... Again

Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds

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Special Episode - Implications of the Afghanistan Withdrawal for South Asia

Published: Aug. 27, 2021, 6:53 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 26 seconds

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Top 10 Traits of a Good Congressional Staffer

Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 54 seconds

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Special Episode - Ambassador Mark Green In Conversation with Gen. David Patreus and John Scarlett Hindsight Up Front

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 7:57 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds

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You Really Ought to Know More About Canada

Published: Aug. 9, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 40 seconds

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Nicaragua's Election Quagmire

Published: July 22, 2021, 7:12 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds

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Afghanistan Withdrawal Continues Apace

Published: July 16, 2021, 2:31 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds

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Lumbering Towards Disaster? Lumber Prices, Canada and Supply Chains

Published: June 11, 2021, 6:44 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 2 seconds

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The Time Is Now: John Cena and China Reaction

Published: May 27, 2021, 9:36 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes

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Long Time Gone - Discussing the Afghanistan Withdrawal

Published: May 7, 2021, 4:49 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 46 seconds

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Weaving Noise: Xinjiang, China and the World

Published: April 30, 2021, 5:46 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds

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High Stakes Deepfakes

Published: April 28, 2021, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 19 seconds

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Broken Politics? A Conversation with Former Hill Staffers

Published: April 21, 2021, 4:36 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds

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A New Surge At The Southern Border

Published: March 26, 2021, 2:42 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 11 seconds

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The Tales of a Master Negotiator

Published: March 5, 2021, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 44 seconds

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Military Rule Returns to Myanmar

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 10:14 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 19 seconds

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Tried Plan C - What's Plan D? The Navalny Phenomenon inside and outside Russia

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 9 seconds

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A Russia Roundtable

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 33 seconds

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Who's Impeachin' Who - A Dose of History from Brenda Wineapple

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 9:51 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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The View from History with John Ferling

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Jane Harman on Reconciliation For The Future

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds

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The Free Fire Zone in Cyberspace Part 2

Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 7:12 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 3 seconds

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The Free Fire Zone In Cyberspace

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 4:09 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds

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How to Distribute 7 Billion Vaccines

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 7:53 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 43 seconds

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The RCEP Deal - Is China Writing the Rules Now?

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 9:26 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 13 seconds

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50 Ways to Leave Afghanistan

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 9 seconds

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Africa and the COVID-19 Challenge

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 7:37 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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Europe - Why Should We Care?

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 22 seconds

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So What'd I Miss? The Post-Summer Catch Up Show

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 4 seconds

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Book Chat: US Strategy in the Asian Century

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 2 seconds

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An Explosion in Lebanon - The Port and Politics

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 9:57 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds

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The Clock is Ticking for TikTok

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 6:14 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds

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How To Lose the Information War - Book chat with Nina Jankowicz

Published: July 21, 2020, 8:04 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 8 seconds

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AMLO Visits the US, So Mexico Experts Visit Us

Published: July 7, 2020, 10:48 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 17 seconds

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Deadly Companions - Pandemics Changing History

Published: July 2, 2020, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds

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All About the Relationships: The China India Border Dispute

Published: June 19, 2020, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds

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50th Episode!

Published: June 4, 2020, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 47 seconds

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To Reopen or Not to Reopen: That is the Border Question

Published: May 27, 2020, 7:07 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 8 seconds

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Imagine Renegotiating All Your Trade Deals Right Now

Published: May 21, 2020, 5:39 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 39 seconds

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What COVID Responses and Economic Recovery Looks Like in Asia

Published: May 8, 2020, 7:18 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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COVID Economics in Latin America

Published: May 8, 2020, 7:17 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds

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Here's Looking At EU - How Europe Recovers from COVID-19

Published: May 6, 2020, 7:28 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds

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Where in the World Is KJU - Possibilites and Meanings with Abe Denmark

Published: May 1, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds

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They Were Supposed to Party Like It Was 1999... AND 1945

Published: April 28, 2020, 4:50 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds

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Chained to Our Neighbors - How North American Supply Chains are Holding Up

Published: April 23, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 13 seconds

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Watch Out For The Doom Scroll - COVID Disinformation in Europe and Asia

Published: April 17, 2020, 7:09 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 24 seconds

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South Korea from the Other Side of the Curve - With a Very Special Guest

Published: April 14, 2020, 2:44 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 19 seconds

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Where Do You Plan To Be In 15 Years? Putin's Answer: Right Here.

Published: April 6, 2020, 8:52 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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"The Hacker and the State," or "We're Not Talking About Coronavirus"

Published: March 31, 2020, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 6 seconds

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The Viral Episode 2 - Going Beyond the Day To Day

Published: March 26, 2020, 1:58 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 21 seconds

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The Viral Episode - Coronavirus from the public health, regional, and economic levels

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 2:54 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 41 seconds

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Imagine Being Ukraine Right Now

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds

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Juan Guaido in the House!

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 7:22 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds

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Trading Views: Going From NAFTA To USMCA

Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds

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Trading Views: Bonus History Episode

Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 47 seconds

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Trading Views: A Growing Industry

Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 3:28 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds

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Trading Views: Set Phasers to One!

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 7:35 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 19 seconds

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Trading Views: On the Front Lines of a Trade War

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 7:29 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 16 seconds

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Gaming out the UK Election

Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 9:33 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds

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Elections in Hong Kong and What They Mean for Protests

Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds

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Anders Beal on the Real Deal with Latin America's Protests

Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 10 seconds

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The Tapestry of Syria - Part 2

Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds

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The Tapestry of Syria - Part 1

Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds

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South Pacific Breezes Blowing - Why Pacific Island Nations Are Looking to DC

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds

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What President Trump Gets Right About Mexico

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds

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Russia and China, Sitting in a Tree?

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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Halloween is Coming! Is Brexit?

Published: Oct. 11, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds

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Is China Dictating What We See On TV?

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 9:21 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 25 seconds

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Quicktake! The Politics of a Definite Article

Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 8:53 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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It's Meg King... or Maybe It's a Deepfake

Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds

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Black Smoke On The Horizon - Will Attacks on Oil Facilities in Saudi Arabia Spark a Conflagration?

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 8:42 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 55 seconds

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Taliban Talks Collapse... Now What?

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 9:26 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds

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Smoke on the Amazon - The Politics of Wildfires in Brazil

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 7 seconds

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Negotiations and Love Notes - Where Do The North Korea Nuclear Talks Stand?

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds

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Pining for the Fjords of Greenland - Following Up on the Arctic

Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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An Update on the Hong Kong Protests

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds

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What's the environment like on a silk road?

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds

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Argentina... and "Peak Podcast"

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 56 seconds

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Ground Truth on the Iran Nuclear Program

Published: July 23, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds

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Quicktake! What Just Happened in the House?

Published: July 17, 2019, 6:42 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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Remember: It's Colombia, Not Columbia

Published: July 16, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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Foreign Policy On Top Of The World

Published: July 9, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds

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Taking a Look at India

Published: June 24, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 4 seconds

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Understanding the Hong Kong Protests

Published: June 20, 2019, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 27 seconds

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Is China Dictating What We See At The Movies?

Published: May 15, 2019, 6:16 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds

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Understanding the US/Russia Relationship

Published: May 15, 2019, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 4 seconds

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