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What choices will the next UK Foreign Secretary face?
Independent Thinking - May 17, 2024 09:33 - 37 minutesBronwen Maddox is joined by Shashank Joshi, defence editor of The Economist and historian and commentator Helene von Bismarck to discuss what the next government must prioritize in the UK's foreign policy. With them is Olivia O’Sullivan, Director of our UK in the World programme and co-author of...
FTC Voted to Ban Noncompetes. Will It Actually Happen? w/ Rebecca Pifer
Health Affairs This Week - May 17, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHealth Affairs' Jeff Byers interviews Healthcare Dive's Rebecca Pifer to discuss the FTC's move to ban noncompete agreements. Join Health Affairs Insider. Related Links: FTC votes to ban noncompetes, with far-reaching effects on doctors (Healthcare Dive)
The Laura Bush Book Club with “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” Author Heather Morris
Overheard at the Bush Center - May 16, 2024 17:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsRecently, the Bush Center hosted author Heather Morris for the Laura Bush Book Club as part of Engage at the Bush Center series presented by NexPoint, with support from H-E-B. In her conversation with Bush Institute’s Anne Wicks, Morris discussed her No. 1 international bestselling novel and ne...
Remembrance and Independence Under the Specter of War
Israel Policy Pod - May 16, 2024 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 146 ratingsOn this week’s episode, Israel Policy Forum Policy Advisor and Tel Aviv-based journalist Neri Zilber and IPF Atid Director Shanie Reichman discuss this year's Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut under the pall of October 7, the state of U.S.-Israel relations, the ongoing Rafah operation amid the wid...
Netflix's "Baby Reindeer" SCANDAL!
BASED Politics - May 15, 2024 13:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsIs Netflix going to LOSE the MASSIVE lawsuit it faces over its new "Baby Reindeer" series about an alleged stalker? And are the alleged stalker's interviews helping or hurting her cause? Brad Polumbo and Hannah Cox break it down in this episode of the BASEDPolitics podcast. Then, they debu...
China and Eastern Europe, with Alicja Bachulska
State of Asia - May 14, 2024 16:00 - 38 minutesChina’s leader Xi Jinping raised his country’s relationship with EU and NATO member Hungary to a level that puts Hungary almost as close to Beijing’s chest as Russia and North Korea are. Western Europe long regarded the ’new’ EU member states in the East as Trojan horses. But views on, and rel...
China's Expanding Ties with Latin America and the Caribbean
China Global - May 14, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn the past few weeks, China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean have been making headlines. Newsweek published an exclusive story about plans to create a Chinese-run special economic zone on the island of Antigua that will have a port, a dedicated airline, its own customs and immig...
Will the US continue to support Israel?
Independent Thinking - May 10, 2024 10:14 - 35 minutesIn this special episode, Bronwen Maddox interviews a key figure in US foreign policy to the Middle East for over a decade, Ambassador Dennis Ross. Ambassador Ross engaged directly with both Israeli and Palestinian parties in peace negotiations under multiple US presidents, and was instrumental...
What Walmart Health's Demise Says About Retail Health and Telehealth Markets
Health Affairs This Week - May 10, 2024 05:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHealth Affairs' Jeff Byers and Jessica Bylander go over the demise of Walmart Health and the health of retail clinics and telemedicine. Order the May issue of Health Affairs. Finish the sentence: You're A Health Policy Wonk If... Related Links: Walmart shuttering all 51 health cente...
Anticipating Indonesia's AI Revolution (with Angus Mackintosh)
Reformasi Dispatch - May 10, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsReformasi Dispatch conferred with Angus Mackintosh, an independent research analyst from SmartKarma and CrossAsean, on how innovation is unfolding in Indonesia. Despite low research levels and an uncertain investment climate, artificial intelligence (AI) can close skill gaps and thereby help un...
Reimagining Democracy: Radical Imagination in Practice
Radical Imagination - May 09, 2024 19:08 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsDemocracy isn’t dead, it just needs to be reimagined so that all of us can flourish. And that requires radical imagination! Angela Glover Blackwell, host of the Radical Imagination podcast, has a new podcast: Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life! In this six-part series, Angela, along with an ar...
Ceasefire Reports and Netanyahu's Retorts
Israel Policy Pod - May 08, 2024 18:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 146 ratingsOn this week’s episode, Israel Policy Forum Policy Advisor and Tel Aviv-based journalist Neri Zilber hosts Haaretz Military Correspondent Amos Harel to discuss the overall state of the Israel-Hamas war. They cover the limited Israeli ground incursion into Rafah, Hamas' response to the ceasefire-...
The biggest self-induced implosion in politics
BASED Politics - May 08, 2024 14:58 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsSouth Dakota governor Kristi Noem just self-imploded in the most bizarre way. Her new book brags about murdering puppies and goats (yes, really) and lies about meetings with Kim Jong Un. Watch as Hannah covers the controversy. Then, we discuss a new bill called KOSA that claims to protect kids o...
Benefit(s) of the Doubt(s): Anticipating a New Administration (with Prof Dewi Fortuna Anwar)
Reformasi Dispatch - May 04, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsProspects for foreign policy, domestic politics and democratization feature in our talk with the distinguished analyst and former advisor to President Habibie and Vice President Boediono, Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar of the National Research and Innovation Agency (Brin). She extends the 'benefit...
Preserving Health and Protecting Humanity in Times of Conflict
On The Issues With Michele Goodwin - May 03, 2024 21:00 - 55 minutesIn this episode, taped in front of a live audience at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C., a panel of health and legal experts unpack what's happening around the world—from Gaza, to Afghanistan and beyond. How can governments and NGOs best act to preserve health, enforce legal norms, and protect ...
Which country is next to go nuclear?
Independent Thinking - May 03, 2024 11:46 - 40 minutesThis week, Bronwen Maddox discusses whether we are seeing a resurgence of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, given recent events in the Middle East and rhetoric from world leaders. She is joined by Robert E Kelly, Professor of Political Science at Pusan National University, Dr Hanna Notte,...
The Rise - and Future - of Medicare Advantage w/ Jack Hoadley
Health Affairs This Week - May 03, 2024 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHealth Affairs' Jeff Byers interviews Jack Hoadley from Georgetown University about the final rule for the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D programs for 2025. Read the new Health Policy Brief on digital inclusion. Join us for our ONC 20th anniversary event on May 9. Finish the ...
Campus Chaos, Ceasefire Considerations, and Rafah Remonstrations
Israel Policy Pod - May 03, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 146 ratingsOn this week’s episode, Tel Aviv-based journalist and Israel Policy Forum Policy Advisor Neri Zilber hosts Israel Policy Forum’s Chief Policy Officer Michael Koplow and Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Senior Director of Policy Research Shira Efron. Together they assess the ongoing turmoil o...
Turkey’s former PM Davutoglu, who met Hamas leaders this week, outlines their demands for peace
On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman - May 02, 2024 18:04 - 41 minutesFormer Turkish Prime Minister and leader of the pro-Islamic Future Party Ahmet Davutoglu met with Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Meshal this week and shared their conditions for peace with Al-Monitor. Davutoglu sharply criticized the governments of Turkey and Arab states, sayin...
Are the anti-Israel campus protests going BEYOND free speech?!
BASED Politics - May 01, 2024 13:26 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsColleges across the country are engulfed in controversy as anti-Israel protests and "encampments" are turning campuses into political war zones. Is this going beyond free speech? And are some Republicans being hypocrites? Brad Polumbo and Hannah Cox break it down in this episode of the BAS...
The Power of Advocacy: Swiss Women's Case for Climate Justice in European Courts
Graduate Institute What Matters Today - April 30, 2024 08:00 - 22 minutesIn this episode, we explore a groundbreaking legal case in Switzerland where the European Court of Human Rights addressed the intersection of climate change and human rights violations. We analyze the arguments presented in the case and the court's evaluation of their claims, highlighting the ...
Illiberal Effects of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment
China Global - April 30, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe Biden administration maintains that China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and the power to do so. One part of China’s economic statecraft toolkit involves state-directed investments through high profile projects in the Belt and Road Initiative whic...
Nepal’s Challenges, with Deputy Speaker Indira Ranamagar
State of Asia - April 29, 2024 16:00 - 30 minutesIndira Ranamagar is Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nepal since January 2023. She started her career as a primary science and maths teacher in village schools in the southeast of Nepal, and became a social worker in prisons in 1990. For well over 30 years now, she has been a pr...
GOP Congressman Tony Gonzales attacks party peers
Party Politics - April 26, 2024 16:52 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFxwX7r4nTY This week, Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina discuss President Biden's remarks on abortion in Florida, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales' attacks on his GOP colleagues, and the upcoming elections in Texas, among other stories. NATIONAL TOPICS ...
How the ACA Market Has Matured w/ Sabrina Corlette and Jason Levitis
Health Affairs This Week - April 26, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis month, HHS released the final "Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters" for 2025. This final notice sets standards and requirements for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and health insurers. Sabrina Corlette and Jason Levitis, who both co-authored a piece about the notice in ...
Sister of Israeli-Russian scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is being held by Iran-backed Shiite militia, calls for US military sanctions on Iraq
On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman - April 25, 2024 21:33 - 20 minutesEmma Tsurkov insists that the best way to get Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to make good on his pledges to secure her sister's freedom is for the United States to wield the threat of military sanctions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...
Democratic Hopes, Institutional Woes - Indonesia's High Stakes Election (with Dr Dan Slater)
Reformasi Dispatch - April 25, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTo assess the post-election process and anticipate what lies ahead, The head of Michigan University's Center for Emerging Democracies joins Reformasi Dispatch to discuss his new article in the Journal of Democracy. Are expectations of "continuity" valid? Is the electorate prepared for how Presi...
Is time running out for Ukraine?
Independent Thinking - April 25, 2024 13:24 - 38 minutesBronwen Maddox is joined this week by journalist Oz Katerji and Phillips P. O’Brien, a Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews. Joining them both in the studio is Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk, the OSUN Academy Fellow in the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. Read our ...
Congress just sold us all out (again!) 😑
BASED Politics - April 25, 2024 12:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsCongress sending more of your money overseas, school choice shenanigans in Tennessee, Biden brings back #MeToo mobs on campus and a viral TikTok sparks debate about… tattoos? Brad Polumbo & Hannah Cox break it all down in this episode of the BASED Politics podcast.
Administrative Capacity and Its Impact on Development in Pakistan — Sameen A. Mohsin Ali
In Pursuit of Development - April 24, 2024 04:19 - 52 minutesEffective bureaucracies are pivotal in mobilizing resources, implementing development projects, and ensuring equitable distribution of growth benefits across all societal segments. Conversely, weak administrative systems often result in inefficiency, corruption, and the derailment of vital devel...
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