June 3, 2021

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are Nobel Prize-winning economists and warn that India’s COVID problem is now the world’s problem.

Matt Hancock is the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and joins the show to discuss COVID-19 and a more equitable vaccine rollout.

In a troubling new report the United Nations warns an emboldened Taliban poses a severe and expanding threat to the Afghan government. It adds the Taliban believes it can return to power by force if necessary and that it still remains close to Al Qaeda--something the Taliban denies.

We sometimes hear of artists selling the rights to their work – but we rarely hear of them buying those rights back. But that is what award-winning author and professor Kiese Laymon has done.