What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest of the world? Domination or...
The Chinese Puzzle
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The kids are not alright!
"All children of all ages and in all countries are being effected in particular by the socioeconomic impacts and in some cases, by mitigation...
Leadership Special: Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer
In this special episode, you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners. Listen, as he is...
The best of times, and the worst of times
Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly and unevenly recedes, the world seems frozen in place as it deals with the mess left behind....
If it’s illiberal, is it democracy?
Europe is increasingly divided: between the frugal North and the Club Med South; between the illiberal East and the progressive West. In many ways,...
Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle, world-class oceanographer and educator
In this special episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 prize winners. Listen, as she is interviewed by Ashok Mirpuri,...
Casas Muertas
Venezuela has been in a death spiral for years. The country have been devastated by political repression and economic depression; its people suffer...
When is too much freedom too much?
Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, is widely considered one of America's leading legal scholars on freedom of speech and has...
“Expect to have very violent reactions after the pandemic”
Pierre Lellouche worries that bad is likely to get worse. Listen as he discusses how Europe got stuck between the United States and China, the...