September 13, 2024
Kholood Khair, a Sudanese journalist, joins the show to shed light on what some call a forgotten crisis in Sudan. Cindy McCain, Director of the World Food Programme, describes the hardship that has spread across Sudan since the outbreak of war. Saad Mohseni on his memoir and the struggle for a free and independent press in Afghanistan. Jerusalem Demsas on the housing crisis in America.
Episodes
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October 29, 2021
S2021 E4087 - 55m 40s
Mo Elleithee and Mark Landler analyze President’s Biden's current domestic agenda and how could it impact American diplomacy. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich weighs in on President Biden's meeting with Pope Francis. Journalist Mohanad Hashim discusses the Sudan coup. Jennifer Moss explains why the U.S. is experiencing a wave of professional resignations and a burnout epidemic.
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October 28, 2021
S2021 E4086 - 55m 57s
Democrats are at a pivotal moment in the passage of their infrastructure bill. Fossil fuel giant CEOs testified about whether they knew their products were fueling climate change. Facebook CEO outlines a new vision for the company, but experts warn it hasn’t done enough. Kim Ghattas focuses on three places that once had real hope for democracy. The supply chain crisis is crippling the U.S.
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October 27, 2021
S2021 E4085 - 55m 55s
Ava DuVernay discusses her new Netflix series "Colin in Black and White." "The Premonition" author Michael Lewis reflects on losing his daughter to a car accident. Journalist Greg Zuckerman discusses his book "A Shot to Save the World" and the decades of research that went into the COVID-19 vaccine.
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October 26, 2021
S2021 E4084 - 55m 57s
Former top Saudi intelligence official, Saad Al-Jabri, fears he or his family may be the Saudi Crown Prince's next victims. Al-Jabri's daughter joins the show. "Passing" by acclaimed actress Rebecca Hall tells the story of mixed-race childhood friends who reunite as adults. Psychologist Doreen Dodgen-Magee has released a new book, "Restart: Designing a Healthy Post-Pandemic Life."
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October 22, 2021
S2021 E4082 - 55m 44s
Senator Joe Manchin continues to block a significant part of Biden’s climate legislation. Martin Indyk's "Master of the Game," looks at Henry Kissinger’s role in the Middle East. Washington Post columnist Max Boot blames Trump for leading the growing extremism within the Republican party. Known for her uncompromising attitudes, Rego fiercely took on fascism and explored women’s rights.
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October 21, 2021
S2021 E4081 - 55m 56s
Carlos Fernando Chamorro; Abuzar Royesh; Simin Royesh; Stephanie Land
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October 20, 2021
S2021 E4080 - 57m 26s
For Tarana Burke, watching #MeToo go viral wasn't necessarily cause for celebration. Her new memoir documents all this and more and she joins the show to discuss. Peter Marki-Zay became the unexpected opposition candidate against Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban this weekend. Rep. Adam Schiff speaks about why he believes the January attack fundamentally weakened the U.S.
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October 19, 2021
S2021 E4079 - 56m 46s
Kaiya McCullough; Yvens Rumbold; Orlando von Einsiedel; Hassan Akkad; McKay Coppins
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October 18, 2021
S2021 E4078 - 55m 45s
Colin Powell has passed away due to complications from COVID-19. Jack Straw and Robert Draper join to discuss. The fall of Enron was a scandal that rocked the business world so hard that its aftershocks are still being felt 20 years later. The inaugural Earthshot Awards were held in London this weekend. Ramsey Green speaks about lessons learned after Hurricane Katrina.
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October 14, 2021
S2021 E4076 - 55m 55s
The global energy crunch is hitting supply chains and consumers hard, interfering with the effort to recover from the pandemic and last year’s harsh winter. Julie Delpy aspires to change our outlook on aging with her new series "On the Verge." In Dave Grohl's memoir "The Storyteller," he charts growing up in Washington, D.C., touring as a teenager, and his friendship with the late Kurt Cobain.
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October 13, 2021
S2021 E4075 - 55m 56s
Fawzia Koofi; Mary-Ellen McGroarty; Kimberle Crenshaw; Gen. Stanley McChrystal
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October 12, 2021
S2021 E4074 - 55m 12s
Doctors Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci changed the course of history when their company BioNTech, alongside Pfizer, developed the first clinically approved Covid-19 vaccine. 'Impeachment: American Crime Story' has the full backing of Monica Lewinsky herself, who is played by actress Beanie Feldstein. In their new joint memoir "The Boys," Ron and Clint Howard celebrate their decades of brotherhood.
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What's Next for the U.S. in Afghanistan?
S2021 E4050 - 2m 50s
With Afghanistan's food supplies, finances, and public services on the point of collapse, the U.S. and its allies now must decide on a course of action. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has just concluded a congressional delegation to the region.
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Nate From "Ted Lasso" Discusses the Show's Success
S2021 E4050 - 2m 56s
During the pandemic, one unlikely TV show has become a tonic for our troubled times. "Ted Lasso" follows the journey of an American college football coach hired by a struggling English Premier League football team. The show has won a truckload of awards and its second season is currently airing on Apple TV+. One of its stars is Nick Mohammed, who holds an Emmy nomination for his role as Nate.
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What's America's Role on the World Stage?
S2021 E4050 - 2m 56s
What is America’s appropriate role on the world stage? Kori Schake has held top jobs in the Defense and State Departments and worked as a foreign policy advisor to Senator McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. She currently is director of foreign and defense policy at the conservative American Institute Policy.
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FBI Special Agent: We Are In More Danger Now Than After 9/11
S2021 E4050 - 17m 59s
Will Afghanistan become a terrorist safe haven? Few people are better placed to answer than Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent who made his name investigating Al-Qaeda plots before 9/11. He speaks with Michel Martin about why the terrorist threat is far from over, and why he believes a more dangerous phase has begun.
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TX Abortion Ruling: “Insulting and Abuse of the Judiciary”
S2021 E4049 - 18m 4s
The Justice Department is vowing to protect Texas clinics from prosecution for providing abortions, upping the ante after the state brought in a new law attempting to gut Roe v. Wade. Slate senior editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick has been following the Texas case closely. She joins Michel Martin to analyze the latest developments.
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Desmond Shum on His Missing Wife's Reappearance
S2021 E4049 - 2m 49s
Whitney Duan and her then-husband Desmond Shum were rising stars in China’s business world, but after Shum left the country, Duan disappeared without a trace. Nobody had heard a word from her for years – until Saturday when she called Shum and pleaded that he not publish his new book, which promises to pull back the curtain on Xi Jinping’s China. Shum joins the program to discuss.
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Fmr. CA Gov. Jerry Brown on the Climate Crisis
S2021 E4049 - 3m
According to the Washington Post, nearly one in three Americans live in a county hit by a weather disaster in the last three months. As Governor of California, Jerry Brown was one of the first national politicians to address the climate crisis and joins the show to discuss what must be done.
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Carol Moseley Braun Reacts to Texas Abortion Law
S2021 E4048 - 2m 59s
A recent decision by the Supreme Court allows a new Texas law to all but ban access to abortion as guaranteed by Roe v. Wade in 1973. With similar cases pending, many are expressing fear that the decision will set a precedent. To reflect on Texas and what comes next, Christiane speaks with the U.S. Senate’s first Black female senator, Carol Moseley Braun.
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Will a Robot Take Your Job? How AI Will Shape Our Future
S2021 E4048 - 17m 13s
Bestselling author Kai-Fu Lee knows the world of tech like no other. Once the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft and Apple, he is now CEO of Sinovation Ventures. His new collection of short stories imagines how artificial intelligence will shape the way we live and work, for better and for worse, as he explains to Hari Sreenivasan.
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What to Expect From American Foreign Policy
S2021 E4048 - 2m 57s
With President Biden’s domestic agenda looking shaky and global allies wondering what to expect from American foreign policy, we turn to a pair of powerhouse journalists, co-authors who also happen to be married. The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser and The New York Times’s Peter Baker join the show to discuss all this as well as their biography of former Secretary of State James Baker – no relation.
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The Harsh Reality Faced by Women in Afghanistan
S2021 E4048 - 2m 7s
To discuss the Taliban's attack on women’s rights, Christiane speaks with a youth activist who has chosen to stay in her country even as the Taliban takes control.
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Life, Death and Football
S2021 E4047 - 16m 45s
Washington Post sports journalist Kent Babb follows a high school football season in his new book, "Across the River." Set in Louisiana--the state that reported the highest homicide rate in the country for 2019--Babb’s book is a stark look at the fight to keep young students out of the line of fire – and George Clooney has snapped up the film rights.
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