The Elucidators: Decoding Global News
The Elucidators: Decoding Global News
Steve Palley, Pete Newsom
Steve Palley and Pete Newsom dive deep into notable global affairs in this weekly podcast.
What Just Happened In The United States?
Steve and Pete look back at a completely uneventful and frankly kind of boring two weeks in American politics.
Nov 13, 2020
56 min
Will We Ever Get Rid Of Nuclear Weapons?
A new effort is afoot to ban nuclear weapons once and for all. Will it succeed? Should we want it to?
Oct 30, 2020
1 hr 7 min
Thailand's Royal Mess
We've got big trouble in the Land of Smiles, where a growing protest movement is squaring off against the country's retrograde monarch.
Oct 23, 2020
46 min
Warnings from the Far Right
Far-Right extremists have infiltrated the German armed forces, plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan, and have been found responsible for politically-motivated murders in Greece. What's coming next?
Oct 16, 2020
1 hr 19 min
Fishing For A Brexit Deal
We're in the final innings of the Brexit game. Is UK PM Boris Johnson going to deliver or get served?
Oct 8, 2020
43 min
Rumble In The Caucasus
Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and it may put the whole Caucasus region at risk.
Oct 1, 2020
42 min
Taiwan In China's Crosshairs
China is rattling its saber across the Taiwan Strait by sending warplanes across the median line. Are we heading for another crisis?
Sep 24, 2020
1 hr 12 min
Decoding the COVID Economy With Prof. Ryan Weldzius
Friend of the show Prof. Ryan Weldzius of Villanova University stops by to explain what's going on with the global economy during the COVID Era.
Sep 17, 2020
1 hr 7 min
Hero of Hotel Rwanda Arrested
Paul Rusesabagina, the Rwanda hotel manager whose heroism during the 1994 Genocide inspired the Oscar-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda, has been arrested and accused of terrorism.
Sep 10, 2020
1 hr 11 min
Sayonara Shinzo-San: Japan's Longest-Serving PM Steps Down
Shinzo Abe is giving up his post as PM of Japan due to health issues. Did his policies succeed in reforming Japan, or is the island nation fated to decline?
Sep 3, 2020
1 hr 14 min
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