When Joe Biden ran for president, he pledged to make climate change a major priority. How will he make good on that promise and what are the consequences if he fails to act? On this week’s episode, we discuss climate policy with former California Governor Jerry Brown, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, 2016 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Then, we visit Paradise, California, the site of the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history.
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The national uprising ignited by the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on the country’s embedded, institutional racism, including the fraught relationship between environmentalism and communities of color. Air pollution, severe weather and the economic upheaval brought on by climate change impacts black and minority communities first and worst, yet their voices are often left out of policy responses and market solutions. -
Black Lives Matter might be the largest social movement in American history. Last month, an estimated 15-25 million people took to the streets to protest police violence, launching a national conversation about the role systemic racism plays in law enforcement. We hear from Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira, an artist whose past experiences with the police drove him to fight the system from the inside. Next, we look at how South Africa has grappled with its own history of police violence.
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The Supreme Court narrowly rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – meaning life for its nearly 700,000 participants remains in limbo. In this collaboration between Think and The Texas Newsroom, host Krys Boyd explores why Congress has been unwilling to create legislation that addresses DACA, shares the stories of DACA recipients as they go about their lives unable to plan for their futures, and talks to Janet Napolitano, who initiated the program as President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary.
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Seventy-five years ago, delegates from 50 countries met in San Francisco to sign the UN Charter. Initially, the purpose of the United Nations was to maintain peace and security through international cooperation and to essentially prevent another world war. Today’s UN has 193 member countries and is facing a time of uncertainty and open disdain from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has cut funding to the world body and declared, “The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots.”
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How might coronavirus reshape geopolitics? For some, the answer is clear: China is on the rise. While Washington embraces “America First” and abdicates its global leadership role, they argue, Beijing is stepping up to fill the void.
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Ideas of the European Enlightenment had a major impact on early American culture and the ways in which Americans pursued happiness in their new nation. On this program, we hear from Caroline Winterer, a professor of history and American studies at Stanford University, where she specializes in the scientific ideas and Enlightenment attitudes that shaped this country.
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This week, we look at leadership during a global crisis. What does it take to avoid the worst of the pandemic and allow a country to return to some sense of normalcy? Producer Teresa Cotsirilos and Radio New Zealand’s Indira Stewart explain how Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern managed to nearly eradicate the virus from New Zealand.
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When the novel coronavirus began to spread beyond China, we were told to stay home and flatten the curve. Many countries have been able to do that, to varying degrees, so what happens next? We look at how governments around the world are struggling to re-open their economies.
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From Intelligence Squared U.S. - As health professionals and leaders around the nation rush to procure the supplies Americans need to combat coronavirus, we ask: Is the Defense Production Act being underutilized?
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As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, the World Health Organization warns about an information epidemic or “infodemic.” Consumers of news are inundated with stats, graphs, press conferences, and think-pieces, as well as dubious data, miscredited quotations, and outright harmful claims.
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American kids today are 55% more likely to die by the age of nineteen than children who grow up in other industrialized countries. Is the American Dream an outdated one? Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore this question in their latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. It chronicles the lives of people Kristof grew up with in rural Oregon, where roughly a quarter of the children who rode the school bus with him, died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide or accidents. -
One question at the heart of the impeachment case against Donald Trump is whether the president threatened to withhold U.S. military assistance from Ukraine. In this episode, we explore why the U.S. has been supporting Ukraine in Europe’s only active war and why Ukraine needs help defending itself against Russian aggression.
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On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, we speak with three people who are engaged in one part of the community organizing efforts going on around the country to secure racial equity.
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European regulators are taking on American technology companies, including Apple, Facebook, and Google, in a big way. Is Brussels waging war against Silicon Valley? Is Europe right to wield a regulatory sword at American tech companies? The debaters are Roslyn Layton, Marietje Schaake, Berin Szóka, and Ramesh Srinivasan.
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Some Americans are starting to consider socialism as a viable economic and political model. Is capitalism here to stay? The debaters are John Mackey, Bhaskar Sunkara, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Richard D. Wolff.
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While globalization has lifted millions out of poverty, the geopolitical forces that drove it have largely left the middle class behind. There is a growing sense that the social contract established after WWII is broken. This is the third episode of our 3-part series on the rebuilding of that social contract from three distinct perspectives: that of the people, that of the corporate sector, and that of government. Governments are accused of letting the social safety net disintegrate for the many while facilitating vast economic gains for the few. An ever-expanding wealth gap has reinforced these views. Jason Furman, economics professor at Harvard, and Gillian Tett, US managing editor for the Financial Times, discuss what role governments can play in forging solutions with WorldAffairs Co-host Ray Suarez.
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While globalization has lifted millions out of poverty, the geopolitical forces that drove it have largely left the middle class behind. There is a growing sense that the social contract established after WWII is broken. This is the second episode of our 3-part series on the rebuilding of that social contract from three distinct perspectives: that of the people, that of the corporate sector, and that of government.
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While globalization has lifted millions out of poverty, the geopolitical forces that drove it have largely left the middle class behind. There is a growing sense that the social contract established after WWII is broken. This week and for the following 2 weeks, we’re featuring a 3-part series on the rebuilding of that social contract from three distinct perspectives: that of the people, that of the corporate sector, and that of government.
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Malcolm Nance is a leading intelligence expert who has 33 years of experience combating radical terrorism. He has become known for championing human rights, ethical responsibility, and cultural awareness in intelligence practices. He is the author of “The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It.” What he is calling an act of treason involves allegations that the president of the United States betrayed his oath of office for personal gain; in conversation with John Boland President Emeritus, KQED; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors.
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Journalist Aarti Shahani had a very different immigrant experience than her father did. He was a shopkeeper who mistakenly sold watches and calculators to Columbia’s notorious Cali drug cartel. But she was a scholarship student at one of Manhattan’s most elite prep schools and later a national correspondent from Silicon Valley, covering the biggest companies on the planet.
