The Spanish Fraud
Javier Cercas’s new book on the man who impersonated a Holocaust survivor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 05, 2018•25 min
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Limit Migration to Save Migration
Reihan Salam takes on the immigration debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 28, 2018•29 min
The Bombings the World Forgot
Ambassador Prudence Bushnell survived the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Now she tells her story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 21, 2018•37 min
Talking to the Taliban
American journalist Ashley Jackson wanted to learn more about Taliban leaders. So she donned a burka and knocked on their doors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 14, 2018•31 min
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
On the podcast: An American who was in Turkey during the coup attempt is accused of being one of the plotters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 07, 2018•33 min
The Ghost of Smoot-Hawley
On the podcast: The United States’ last big trade war was in 1930. It did not end well. [First broadcast Aug 3, 2018] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 31, 2018•28 min
Why Was a Private Israeli Intel Firm Digging Up Dirt on This Former Obama Administration Official?
Colin Kahl was targeted by Black Cube, the same company Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein hired to discredit his accusers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 24, 2018•19 min
He Didn’t Know the Klan Handshake. It Almost Cost Him His Life.
On our podcast: Journalist Vegas Tenold describes the six years he spent with white supremacists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 17, 2018•35 min
Ordinary Iranians Will Suffer but Regime Insiders will Profit
On our podcast: Journalist Jason Rezaian recalls life in Iran under sanctions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 10, 2018•12 min
The Ghost of Smoot-Hawley
On the podcast: The United States’ last big trade war was in 1930. It did not end well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 03, 2018•28 min
‘It Could Have Led to a Nuclear War in the Middle East’
On the podcast: When Israeli extremists plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 27, 2018•10 min
The Woman Who Defied Iran
On the podcast: Masih Alinejad took off her headscarf and started a movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 20, 2018•24 min
When Ronnie Met Mikhail
As Trump sits down with Putin, we look back at a summit in Reykjavik that helped end the Cold War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 13, 2018•31 min
Peru’s National Identity Was Bound Up With Conflict and Corruption for Decades — Then It Qualified for the World Cup.
On our podcast, how a country scores two goals in the soccer tournament and finds redemption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 06, 2018•28 min
They Took the Children for a Bath and Never Brought Them Back
Attorney Anne Chandler has been providing legal aid to asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexican border for years. A few months ago, she noticed things were changing. The refugees were being brought to court in shackles. Children were being separated from their parents. On our podcast this week, Chandler, who runs the Houston office of the Tahirih Justice Center, shares some of the traumatic stories she’s heard from clients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more abou...
Jun 29, 2018•28 min
He Feared the CIA Would Delete a Document Detailing its Torture Program. So He Took It.
A Senate investigator who exposed the agency’s torture secrets tells his story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 22, 2018•26 min
Stalin Falsified the Data, Then Killed the Statisticians
How the Soviet Union facilitated the famine of the 1930s that killed millions of Ukrainians and buried the evidence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 15, 2018•22 min
This American Visited North Korea’s Most Sensitive Nuclear Sites. What He Saw Blew His Mind.
Few Americans have ever been to North Korea. Even fewer have been inside one of the country’s nuclear weapons facilities. Siegfried Hecker, a professor at Stanford University and a former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory made his first private visit in 2004 and went back again and again. In our podcast this week, he says what the North Koreans showed him and his team members “blew our socks off.” He can only speculate why they gave him access to the country’s most sensitive nuclear sit...
Jun 08, 2018•24 min
Rohingyas Were Shot, Hacked With Machetes, and Then They Made for the Border
Nearly 700,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims fled violence in Myanmar for Bangladesh last fall. The influx created the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian disaster. Pavlos Kolovos, the head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in Bangladesh, was on the ground as they arrived. He describes what he saw on our podcast this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 01, 2018•21 min
Why Was a Private Israeli Intel Agency Digging Up Dirt on This Former Obama Administration Official?
It began with an email. Colin Kahl, who served as an adviser to Vice President Biden, had been out of government for a few months when a woman identifying herself as Adriana Gavrilo reached out to inquire about his daughter’s school. What followed was an ordeal that seems to be connected to Kahl’s work on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal – and efforts by certain people to undermine it. Colin, now a professor at Stanford University and a contributor to FP’s Shadow Government channel, tells the story in...
May 25, 2018•27 min
How To Haggle With a Dictator
Bill Richardson has made eight missions to North Korea to negotiate the release of American captives. He sat down with Foreign Policy to explain how it’s done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 18, 2018•32 min
The Untold Story of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995
The weekly podcast: How an American presidential candidate found common cause with Israelis opposed to the peace process to pass a law that could now doom it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 11, 2018•24 min
The Road Ahead with North Korea
The weekly podcast: What a potential summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un could look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 04, 2018•18 min
Reporter’s Notebook: Brazil’s Forgotten Children and Russia’s #MeToo Problem
FP’s April magazine: “The End of Human Rights” tackled issues from the Amazon to Vladivostok. On today’s E.R. episode we talk to two contributors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 27, 2018•27 min
What Comes Next in Syria?
With President Trump’s strikes on Assad’s regime, the Syrian civil war is at the forefront of the global political stage. But what happens when the strikes are over? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 20, 2018•15 min
Reporter’s Notebook: Germany’s Family Reunification Problem
FP contributor Vauhini Vara appears on the E.R. to discuss her story "Germany’s Family Feud." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 13, 2018•18 min
How Far Will China Go?
From buying influence in American universities to forcing ex-pats to return home through threatening methods, China is expanding its power over its citizens in any way possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 06, 2018•16 min
The Double Life of Nikki Haley
Is Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations a dedicated fighter for human rights, or a retail politician looking for any issue that advances her career? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 30, 2018•25 min
Is Democracy Dying?
Is the end of democracy as we know it near? Yascha Mounk sets out to answer in his new book, “The People vs. Democracy.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 22, 2018•38 min
What to Expect From Talks With North Korea
Mickey Bergman has been to the table with North Korea before. On today's episode, he tells us what to expect from the upcoming talks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 15, 2018•25 min
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