Israel goes to the polls in October with a clear majority of voters opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu — and no obvious way to translate that into a government. On this month's episode of Global Insights on The Lede, pollster Dahlia Scheindlin and political analyst Rida Abu Rass join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei to consider the arithmetic of the election, the taboo agains ... Show More
Jul 13
The Arguments America Has Never Settled
On this week's episode of the podcast, constitutional law scholar Marcus Gadson joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss the Declaration of Independence at 250, why Americans have never agreed on what liberty means, and how the country's oldest arguments — over religion, race and citizen ... Show More
43m 27s
Jul 6
Soccer, Power and the Politics of America’s World Cup
On the podcast this week, Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper, author of “World Cup Fever” and co-author of “Soccernomics,” joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss the politics of the 2026 World Cup, why he says America "isn't just Trump," and how soccer became a vehicl ... Show More
29m 18s
Oct 2024
War in West Asia: When A Dying Settler Colony Lashes Out
Alyson and Breht discuss the unfolding regional war between Israel and literally all of its neighbors, the restrained Iranian response to Israeli aggression, US complicity and contributions to the fascist mass murder campaign, Hezbollah and Lebanon, Russia and Syria, the decrepit ... Show More
1h 33m
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RamiKhouri" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Rami Khouri</a>, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza. <a href="https://populismblog.wordpress.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Evelyn McDonnell</a>, author of ... Show More