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Trending Globally: Politics and Policy

by The Watson School

An award-winning show exploring today's biggest global challenges with the world's leading experts, from the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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1
A brief history of US interventionism in Iran and beyond
38:52 Mar 19, 2026
2
How US economic policy is interacting with the global economy today
42:03 Mar 5, 2026
3
How federal courts shape US public policy — and how that’s changed under President Trump
43:33 Feb 12, 2026
4
Are human brains wired for war?
38:48 Jan 29, 2026
5
Shutdown politics, gerrymandering, and the role of Congress as Trump enters his lame-duck phase
50:26 Dec 11, 2025
6
Challenging the U.S. foreign policy consensus on Taiwan
42:45 Nov 20, 2025
7
The future of the green transition and the climate movement
47:51 Nov 6, 2025
8
Inequality and democracy in India, the US, and beyond
47:42 Oct 22, 2025
9
Small Barriers, Big Impact: Rethinking International Development
39:15 Oct 1, 2025
10
‘Illicit global economics 101’ with Peter Andreas
39:20 Sep 17, 2025
11
Diplomacy, security, and the “Art of Coercion”
47:48 Aug 27, 2025
12
The role of universities in a democratic society (originally broadcast on the Rhodes Center Podcast, in collaboration with “Brown 2026”)
35:47 Aug 6, 2025
13
What does the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ mean for America?
38:30 Jul 23, 2025
14
USAID is gone. What's the future of international aid?
33:24 Jul 9, 2025
15
Inflation’s winners and losers, with Mark Blyth
26:14 Jun 25, 2025
16
How American firearms fuel violence in Mexico (rebroadcast)
35:09 Jun 11, 2025
17
Press freedom and democracy in Africa and around the world
38:12 May 21, 2025
18
Trump’s (second) “first 100 days”
34:50 Apr 30, 2025
19
Why America can’t build things like it used to
32:05 Apr 16, 2025
20
AI and the future of human rights
27:33 Apr 2, 2025
21
Is America’s “housing crisis” really a “mobility crisis”?
36:54 Mar 19, 2025
22
What Germany’s election means for Germany, the US, and the world
32:14 Mar 5, 2025
23
The future of US-China relations under a new Trump administration
32:00 Feb 19, 2025
24
Education, democracy and the remarkable life and work of Mary McCleod Bethune
33:26 Feb 5, 2025
25
President Trump is back in office. What have we learned so far?
29:40 Jan 22, 2025
26
Can the “free market” solve the climate crisis?
28:09 Jan 8, 2025
27
The surprising causes and effects of democratic erosion
35:44 Dec 11, 2024
28
Amidst melting glaciers and rising seas, finding hope for the future on an Antarctic voyage
31:12 Nov 27, 2024
29
To understand Trump’s victory, look around the world
34:39 Nov 13, 2024
30
How control of Congress will shape US politics, no matter who’s elected president
25:56 Oct 30, 2024
31
“Inside the global supply chain”, with New York Times’ Peter Goodman
35:03 Oct 16, 2024
32
Why is this election so close? The issues and voters driving 2024
34:38 Oct 9, 2024
33
The state of political journalism in an election year unlike any other
31:53 Sep 25, 2024
34
A history of presidents who threatened American democracy (and the citizens who saved it)
37:38 Sep 11, 2024
35
The Secret History of the Pope and World War II (originally broadcast 2022)
27:20 Aug 28, 2024
36
South Africa’s elections, 30 years after apartheid: part 2
42:31 Aug 14, 2024
37
This summer’s UK and French elections explained, with Mark Blyth
32:56 Jul 31, 2024
38
South Africa, 30 years after apartheid: part 1
32:28 Jul 17, 2024
39
The surprising results of India’s election
28:49 Jun 12, 2024
40
A former police officer (and public health expert) on the opioid crisis and public safety
17:57 May 29, 2024
41
What should the Supreme Court’s role in our politics be?
35:57 May 24, 2024
42
How American firearms fuel violence in Mexico
34:03 May 15, 2024
43
Harm reduction, overdose prevention, and the future of treating America’s overdose epidemic
35:05 May 1, 2024
44
A new history of the Sandinista Revolution
42:47 Apr 17, 2024
45
What happened to the ‘American dream’?
32:24 Apr 3, 2024
46
From Black Lives Matter to January 6, how ‘Black grief’ and ‘white grievance’ shape our politics
33:28 Mar 20, 2024
47
Mark and Carrie Special: 2024 Primaries, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, what’s next for the UK’s Labour Party
29:14 Mar 5, 2024
48
Ukraine is ‘on the ropes’ two years after Russia’s invasion. What’s next for the Russia-Ukraine War?
29:32 Feb 21, 2024
49
The origins of America's separate and unequal schools
27:43 Feb 7, 2024
50
How backlash came to define American politics, and what it means for the future of public policy
35:49 Jan 24, 2024
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