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Military Industrial Excess: The Problem with Defense

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The Problem with Jon Stewart
Elizabeth Shackelford

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford discusses the disparity between diplomatic and military spending on the Problem with Jon Stewart.

Lizzy Shackelford speaks at a table with Jon Stewart and other panelists.
The Problem with Jon Stewart
Defense and Security

Xi's Third Term, Russia Stumbles, and India’s G-20 Fallout

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Ravi Agrawal, Steven Erlanger and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

National People's Congress opening session in Beijing
Reuters
Global Politics

The US-Israel Relationship Is Special, but Not Indestructible

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

Ongoing protests to safeguard democracy and a potential war with Iran could call into question US unconditional support for Israel, Paul Poast writes.

Demonstrators call on the US to intervene to stop Benjamin Netanyahu's government to press on with its judicial overhaul
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

With Russian Support, Nicaragua Smothers Dissent

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

The crackdown and assault on civil society includes the key tool of the 21st century autocrat: restrictions and surveillance of digital communications.

Nicaragua Protests
Alisdare Hickson
Global Politics

The Impact of Women and Gen Z on Iranian Protests

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

We explore how protests for #MahsaAmini have helped fuel a global movement for women.

Mahsa Amini protest photo
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Women and Girls

Beating the Odds: The Mothers and Children of the 1,000 Days Movement

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Global Food for Thought by Roger Thurow

Ten years after The First 1,000 Days book began, Roger Thurow revisits the featured mothers and children to see how they are faring.

Shyamkali sits cross legged and holds her young daughter.
Anne Thurow
Food and Agriculture

Yoon Suk-Yeol's Rising Approval Rates May Not Be What They Seem

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NK News
Karl Friedhoff

A gap between polling results could lead the administration to draw dramatically different conclusions about which policies to pursue going forward, Karl Friedhoff writes.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a ceremony
Reuters
Public Opinion

Jimmy Carter Was Right about Human Rights

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Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

"Carter sought to institutionalize human rights within our foreign policy decision-making structures, so that it would not only inform our foreign activities but constrain them as well," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

Jimmy Carter speaks at a lectern
SIPA USA
US Foreign Policy

1,000 Days: Revisiting the Mothers and Children of India

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Featured Video

Ten years after The First 1,000 Days book began, we revisit Shyamkali and her six daughters to see how they are faring.

Shyamkali sits with four of her daughters.
Anne Thurow
Food and Agriculture

The Battle for Bakhmut

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Sirius XM The Briefing
Paul Poast

Paul Poast joins host Steve Scully to unpack the latest from Ukraine.

Ukrainian service members ride a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle near the frontline town of Bakhmut
Reuters
Defense and Security