May 14, 2024
Georgia's parliament passes a controversial bill which critics say mirrors a law used in Russia to crack down on opposition. Georgia's President Salome Zourabichvili joins the show. Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk joins from Kyiv. The Washington Post's David Herszenhorn on Putin's Russia. Writer and religious scholar Reza Aslan on "A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine."
Episodes
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July 13, 2021
S2021 E4009 - 55m 39s
Narendra Taneja discusses the COVID crisis in India. Sen. Todd Young discusses politics and foreign relations. Kamilah Willingham and Soma Sara discuss the camapaign against sexism, misogyny, and sexual violence. Professor Cornel West explains why classics must remain in university curricula.
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July 12, 2021
S2021 E4008 - 55m 41s
Anthony Costello and David Spiegelhalter discuss European vaccine rollout. Mandu Reid and Jackson Katz explain how men can be allies allies in the campaign against misogyny. Rep. Jahana Hayes reflects on coronavirus’s impact on education.
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July 9, 2021
S2021 E4007 - 56m 4s
Jeremy Farrar discusses the state of the pandemic in the UK. WWII resistance spy Selma van de Perre discusses her new memoir “My Name Is Selma.” Freedom Rider Charles Person reflects on the Civil Rights Movement. Artist Maya Lin explains the inspiration behind her new exhibition in New York’s Madison Square Park.
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July 8, 2021
S2021 E4006 - 55m 44s
Donald De Lucca and Laura Coates discuss the trial of Derek Chauvin. Regina King and Kemp Powers discuss their new movie ““One Night in Miami…” Tax law professor Dorothy A. Brown talks about the racism present in tax policy.
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July 7, 2021
S2021 E4005 - 55m 32s
Sen. Amy Klobuchar discusses her new book “Antitrust." Rana Ayyub and Amanda Bennett discuss press freedom. Malcolm Gladwell discusses his book “The Bomber Mafia.”
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July 2, 2021
S2021 E4002 - 55m 25s
Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi reacts to yesterday’s verdict. Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo offers his opinion. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan talks future of country after Chauvin conviction. Political philosopher Danielle Allen relates ancient Greek ethics to modern day police reform.
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July 1, 2021
S2021 E4001 - 56m 4s
Experts reflect on the life and legacy of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
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June 30, 2021
S2021 E3261 - 55m 43s
Former Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neumann discusses immigration reform. John Hume Jr. and Martin Luther King III reflect on the peace movement and their fathers’ legacies. In a conversation recorded before Tuesday’s events in Atlanta, pro basketball player Jeremy Lin Jeremy Lin explains why he chose to speak out after being called “coronavirus” by a fellow player on the court.
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June 29, 2021
S2021 E3260 - 55m 49s
Former Ambassador Bill Taylor discusses foreign relations. Clinical psychologist Christine Runyon discusses what post-vaccine "normalcy" will look like. Actor and activist George Takei speaks out against the rise in anti-Asian violence and hate crimes.
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June 28, 2021
S2021 E3259 - 55m 55s
Walter Isaacson discusses CRISPR and “The Code Breaker.” Plus, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby explains how the Biden administration will approach tensions with China and Taiwan. And Nse Ufot, CEO of The New Georgia Project, explains how she’s working to make voting easier and more accessible.
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June 25, 2021
S2021 E3258 - 55m 52s
The Biden administration aims to confront homegrown racism and bigotry. Award-winning historian Kathleen Belew speaks with Michel Martin about American violence and how to combat it.
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June 24, 2021
S2021 E3257 - 55m 44s
Susan Lund; Samantha Stark; John Allen; Abigail Disney
Extras + Features
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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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