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Pod Save the World - January 13, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22.1K ratings
Tommy and Ben discuss last week’s violent coup attempt and the call for new domestic terrorism laws, how world leaders are reacting to Trump’s Twitter ban, Netanyahu’s announcement of new Israeli settlements and how Biden should handle it, and all the things Mike Pompeo is trying to screw up for...

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Ambassador Samantha Power: “My main motto is lean on. I leaned on those women. They made me feel seen and cared for in what could be quite a cutthroat White House environment.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm - January 08, 2020 02:00 - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Before serving as US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power was a scholar, activist, and journalist. Tune in to hear how she built her career around her belief system. And how she managed up when those beliefs were challenged.   In this episode, Ambassador Power tells us what she learned from her p...

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Ambassador Samantha Power: “My main motto is lean on."

9 to 5ish with theSkimm - January 08, 2020 02:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Before serving as US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power was a scholar, activist, and journalist. Tune in to hear how she built her career around her belief system. And how she managed up when those beliefs were challenged.   In this episode, Ambassador Power tells us what she learned from her p...

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Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush - December 10, 2019 10:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratings
Samantha Power is a crusader for human rights and international affairs. She served as President Barack Obama’s human rights adviser and then, from 2013 to 2017, served in his Cabinet and as US Ambassador to the United Nations. She joins Sophia on "Work In Progress" to share details about her ear...

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The Idealism Of Samantha Power

KERA's Think - November 18, 2019 20:35 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 799 ratings
Samantha Power began her career as a journalist tracking human rights abuses, which led to a Pulitzer Prize. But transitioning from muckraker to policymaker meant learning new ways of tackling international issues. The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama j...

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Samantha Power

Fully Booked by Kirkus Reviews - November 12, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 80 ratings
Ambassador Samantha Power joins Megan in conversation for this special episode of Fully Booked, recorded live for CSPAN2/BookTV at the Texas Book Festival in October. Power’s phenomenal autobiography, The Education of an Idealist, charts her rise to Washington insider, serving beside President Ba...

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Samantha Power on disagreeing with Barack Obama, Syria and being an idealist

Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy - November 06, 2019 12:58 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
Samantha Power was the former US ambassador to the United Nations under Barack Obama. She was in the job at the height of the Syrian Civil War and was intimately involved in President Obama’s deliberations over whether to bomb the Assad regime in response to chemical attacks. She has also been...

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Samantha Power

Headliners - November 05, 2019 09:47 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 30 ratings
The former US ambassador to the United Nations talks to Nihal Arthanayake about working closely with Barack Obama and her memoir; The Education of an Idealist.

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Gist: Samantha Power’s Atrocity Prevention

Slate Daily Feed - October 30, 2019 01:48 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
On The Gist, Melinda Gates and empowering women. In the final part of Mike’s two-part interview with U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, they talk about the right and wrong ways to handle human rights atrocities across the world and their love of baseball. To learn more, read her new book T...

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Ukraine & Brazen Power (with Samantha Power)

Stay Tuned with Preet - September 26, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30.6K ratings
To listen to Preet and Anne's full conversation for free, head to cafe.com/preet and sign up to receive a link. Members of the CAFE Insider can listen to the full analysis in the podcast player of their choice. On this episode of Stay Tuned, " Ukraine & Brazen Power," host Preet Bharara is join...

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Ep. #508: Samantha Power, Sarah Haider

Real Time with Bill Maher - September 21, 2019 03:25 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 14.5K ratings
Bill’s guests are Samantha Power, Sarah Haider, Heather McGhee, Tim Naftali, and Andrew Sullivan. (Originally aired 9/20/19) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ambassador Samantha Power

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast - September 18, 2019 23:56 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 273 ratings
Samantha Power, former President Barack Obama’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is widely known as a leading moral voice of her generation. Power has been described by President Obama as one of America’s “foremost thinkers on foreign policy” and is revered as a Pulitzer Prize winner and a ...

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Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power and ‘The Education of an Idealist’

KQED's Forum - September 18, 2019 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions, to be sure," writes former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power in her new memoir, "The Education of an Idealist." "But turning a blind eye to the toughest problems in the world is a guaranteed shortcut to the same destination." Power first r...

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The Education of an Idealist with Samantha Power

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast - September 17, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7.6K ratings
What was it like to be in the room for some of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the Obama administration? Samantha Power started as an outsider, a war correspondent who became a voice of moral witness about the failings of the American government. That voice earned her a job in...

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Samantha Power joins Influencers with Andy Serwer

Influencers with Andy Serwer - September 13, 2019 08:04 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer sits down former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Samantha Power joins Influencers with Andy Serwer

Yahoo Finance Presents - September 13, 2019 08:03 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 51 ratings
Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer sits down former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference

Conversations with Tyler - September 11, 2019 11:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
A former war correspondent and UN ambassador, Samantha Power has had her share of tough assignments. But writing a memoir about it all is also a daunting prospect. The format itself is a challenge: how do you convince the reader you’re worth spending time with? How do you paint a relatable portr...

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Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting; Jonathan Goldblatt, David Frum, Tom Friedman, Samantha Power, Michael Hayden, Stephen Hadley

Fareed Zakaria GPS - October 29, 2018 18:42 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings
Today on GPS, Fareed discusses the tragic massacre in a Pittsburgh Synagogue with Anti-Defamation League President Jonathan Goldblatt and columnists David Frum and Tom Friedman. Airdate is October 28, 2018. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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Fixing American Foreign Policy: A Conversation with Ambassador Samantha Power

On Shifting Ground - November 16, 2017 19:31 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 163 ratings
Less than a year into the new Trump administration, the US appears to be shifting away from key, longstanding foreign policies as well as from established allies. The president’s recent speeches to NATO members and at the G20 signal a departure from previous administrations on myriad issues, inc...