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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The World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond presents Mr. Edward Joseph, speaking about America’s foreign policy under President Trump. Joseph has 15 years’ experience in major conflict areas, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Balkans. Serving with the U.N., the U.S. Army, NATO, Catholic Relief Services and the International Crisis Group, he was an active participant in the international effort to bring peace during and after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. -
The World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond presents Mr. Edward Joseph, speaking about America’s foreign policy under President Trump. Joseph has 15 years’ experience in major conflict areas, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Balkans. Serving with the U.N., the U.S. Army, NATO, Catholic Relief Services and the International Crisis Group, he was an active participant in the international effort to bring peace during and after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Joseph served as the deputy ambassador of one of the largest democracy and human rights missions in the world — the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe mission in Kosovo.
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In the late 1970s, the newly formed National Institute on Aging redefined senility as a disease – specifically, Alzheimer’s disease. They said that with enough support they could find a cure, but after 40 years and billions of dollars, there is still no treatment.
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This documentary presents the voices of people who survived a devastating plan to solve “the Indian problem.” In the 1950s, the U.S. government launched a campaign to assimilate Native Americans by eliminating reservations, terminating tribal governments, and persuading Native people to move to cities. Hundreds of thousands of Native people relocated to distant cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Oakland, and Los Angeles.
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Soldiers for Peace takes a deep look at why a significant number of Vietnam veterans felt compelled to oppose the war rather than simply try to put it behind them when they returned home. Through first-person storytelling, it explores the way their conceptions of patriotism changed and evolved as their faith in the Vietnam War and the American government dissolved.
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Shell Shock 1919 is a program examining the persistent impact of the losses and shock of the First World War on art, culture and society. Among the stories: the Dada movement, and the unexpected seriousness of its seemingly nonsensical creations; the Cenotaph, and how it grew from temporary cardboard structure to widely celebrated war memorial of London; the artist Anna Coleman Ladd, and the tin masks she created for soldiers defaced in the war; the birth of the Harlem Renaissance; the growth of jazz -and more.
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In the latest Special Report from NPR's Embedded team, we hear a profile of one of the most powerful people in the country: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. How did he get where he is today?
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VPM News presents a legislative candidate forum, sponsored by Chamber RVA, recorded live in our Sesame Street studios in Richmond on October 18th. This program features Virginia’s 12th Senate District, where Republican Senator Siobhan Dunnavant is being challenged by Democratic Del. Debra Rodman. The forum was moderated by VPM News Director, Craig Carper.
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VPM News presents a legislative candidate forum, sponsored by Chamber RVA, recorded live in our Sesame Street studios in Richmond on October 9th. This program features Virginia’s 10th Senate District, where Republican Senator Glen Sturtevant is being challenged by Democrat Ghazala Hashmi. The forum was moderated by VPM News Director, Craig Carper.
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VPM News presents a legislative candidate forum, sponsored by Chamber RVA, recorded live in our Sesame Street studios in Richmond on October 9th. This program features Virginia’s 66th House District, where Republican Speaker of the House Kirk Cox is being challenged by Democrat Sheila Bynum-Coleman. The forum was moderated by VPM News Director, Craig Carper.
