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A Silver Tsunami: Challenges and Opportunities of Global Aging
From: Mateo Schimpf
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As if signing up for Medicare wasn't hard enough

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Click, Rage, Retweet: How American Enragement Drives Politics
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How the digital world tears us apart...and the lives of the people responsible for moderating it.

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
From Bethlehem to Kyiv: A Prayer for Peace at Christmas
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How do celebrations change during war?

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The Covert War on LGBT+ Rights
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From Berkeley to Uganda

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The Ghosts of Nagorno-Karabakh
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In Putin's shadow

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The Global Players Behind Poverty and Peace
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Can a single gathering of world leaders really pull billions of people out of poverty?

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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How Long Can Ukraine Hold On?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we look at the remarkable resilience of Ukraine, and the complex geopolitical stakes for Russia, the US, and China as Putin’s war drags on.

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The New Nuremberg? Cambodia’s Genocide Tribunal
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Why did it take so long to prosecute war crimes in Cambodia?

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
All Eyes on Sudan: Putin, Biden, and the Fight for Democracy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week's episode, we look at where Sudan stands three years after a revolution ousted longtime dictator Omar Al-Bashir.

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Taiwan and the US-China Tug of War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, Ray takes a close look at Taiwan: its colonial past, vibrant democratic tradition, and what recent disputes over independence could mean...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Ambassador Michael McFaul on Putin’s “Failed” War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, to talk about the current state of affairs in Ukraine.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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What is the Future of Abortion in the Americas?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez talks to three women north and south of the U.S. border to understand how overturning Roe v Wade would fit into the region's reproductiv...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The End of Neutrality? Finland’s NATO Bid
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode of WorldAffairs, we tackle the question, how does a country–or an individual–survive the threat of Russian aggression?

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  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Can China Erase History in Hong Kong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week's episode, we hear about the various ways that Beijing is tightening the screws on Hong Kong's freedom of expression, speech, and press.

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Israel and Palestine: Will the Ceasefire Last?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at this seemingly never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Biden and Netanyahu’s approaches to the conflict, and emergin...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Untangling the Yemen Crisis
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
According to the UN, Yemen has become the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. War crimes are rampant. The U.S. is pouring billions of dollars in...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Responding to Rogue States
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
At the United Nations last year, President Trump labelled North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela “rogue States.” Since then, the Trump Administrat...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
"It Had To Be -Un [Kim Jong]" In the Department of Poetic Justice (and the Great American Wrongbook)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Off to the links..., Credit: Susan Cook photo
A musical tribute to the most recent historic meeting of minds between You Know Who. And Who Else, to the tune from the 1924 tune "It Had To Be Yo...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:46
The North Korea Summit
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
The United States and North Korea — two countries that fought a brutal war and never made peace. Last March, the two countries agreed to hold a hi...

  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:24
Jesner v. Arab Bank
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
On Wednesday, October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank, a case that will determine if corporations can be sue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:04
International Law and the Trump Administration
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
Don't miss the latest "Talking Foreign Policy," the radio program hosted by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Michael Scharf on Cl...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Honoring Alan: Why the West Can't Shut Out Refugees
From: Jarrod Sport
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In this audio documentary, Tima Kurdi, the aunt of Alan, shares why the West has a responsibility to support refugees fleeing warfare and destabili...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 1
EP 9 Can You Have 2 Bulls In The China Shop
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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President-elect Donald Trump's telephone conversation with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-Wen, broke 4 decades of U.S./Taiwan diplomatic protocol, enr...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 04:48
Art, Diplomacy, and Accountability
From: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Series: Talking Foreign Policy
Caption: Michael Scharf
A panel of international experts from London, Washington, and Cleveland -- including the Director of the International Bar Association, an Internat...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Unspun More Cynical Than Alex Scrivener of Global Justice Now
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Alex Scrivener
Unspun sits down with Alex Scrivener, Policy Officer at Global Justice Now in London. They recently released a report, Gated Development – is t...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:09
  • Purchases: 1