Worldly

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 Jul 9, 2020


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Leally love the long form, deep dive into foreign policy.


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provides interesting and informative analysis of foreign policy events

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We live in a confusing time, bombarded every day with news from around the world that can be hard to follow, or fully understand. Let Worldly be your guide. Every Thursday, senior writer Zack Beauchamp, senior foreign editor Jennifer Williams, and staff defense writer Alex Ward give you the history and context you need to make sense of the moment and navigate the world around you. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episode Date
The end of the World(ly)
Aug 12, 2021
Authoritarians without borders
Aug 05, 2021
Trouble in Tunisia
Jul 29, 2021
iSpy
Jul 22, 2021
Cuba Libre
Jul 15, 2021
Erdoğan’s enemy in the NBA
Jul 09, 2021
Brexit interview
Jul 01, 2021
Hungary's new anti-LGBTQ law gets a red card
Jun 24, 2021
Joe Biden’s Eurotrip
Jun 17, 2021
Introducing: Now & Then
Jun 12, 2021
Canada’s reckoning with residential schools
Jun 10, 2021
The end of the Netanyahu era?
Jun 03, 2021
Why John Cena is apologizing to China
May 27, 2021
The big picture of the Israel-Gaza war
May 20, 2021
The Israel-Gaza doom loop
May 13, 2021
Bonus: Rep. Ro Khanna on what America owes India
May 07, 2021
The politics of India’s Covid crisis
May 06, 2021
The surprising success of Covid-19 travel bans
Apr 29, 2021
Bonus: The Super League
Apr 23, 2021
How Nigeria explains the climate crisis
Apr 22, 2021
America is finally leaving Afghanistan
Apr 15, 2021
Jordan’s royal family feud
Apr 08, 2021
Is Myanmar heading for civil war?
Apr 01, 2021
Your questions about the world, answered
Mar 25, 2021
Europe’s vaccine disaster
Mar 18, 2021
The Trump of the Tropics vs. the Bernie of Brazil
Mar 11, 2021
The future of the US-Saudi relationship (ft. Sen. Chris Murphy)
Mar 04, 2021
Why Biden hasn’t reentered the Iran deal — yet
Feb 25, 2021
The world’s great powers
Feb 18, 2021
Protesting farmers, India's democracy, and Rihanna
Feb 11, 2021
Myanmar’s coup has no heroes
Feb 04, 2021
Why Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead
Jan 28, 2021
Biden’s World
Jan 21, 2021
Was it terrorism?
Jan 14, 2021
America, humiliated
Jan 07, 2021
Hindsight is 2020
Dec 17, 2020
The last Brexit
Dec 10, 2020
Beijing’s bad tweet
Dec 03, 2020
Fewer troops, forever wars
Nov 19, 2020
Lost in Transition
Nov 12, 2020
If Joe wins
Nov 05, 2020
France, Islam, and free speech
Oct 29, 2020
American democracy, hacked
Oct 22, 2020
Nigeria’s bad cop ring, Thailand’s playboy king
Oct 15, 2020
The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Oct 08, 2020
India vs. Amnesty International
Oct 01, 2020
Is Trump bringing peace to the Middle East?
Sep 24, 2020
The new politics of energy (ft. Daniel Yergin)
Sep 17, 2020
Trumped-up intelligence
Sep 10, 2020
Europe’s second coronavirus wave
Sep 03, 2020
How Donald Trump sees the world
Aug 27, 2020
How Joe Biden sees the world
Aug 20, 2020
Vaccine nationalism
Aug 13, 2020
The last safeguard against nuclear war is about to fall
Aug 06, 2020
No troops for you
Jul 30, 2020
The moral urgency of the Uighur crisis
Jul 23, 2020
Israel was going to annex the West Bank. It didn't.
Jul 16, 2020
The end of Hong Kong
Jul 09, 2020
Is Trump letting Putin get away with murder?
Jul 02, 2020
North Korea blows up the peace process — literally
Jun 25, 2020
Don't buy John Bolton's book. Listen to this podcast instead.
Jun 18, 2020
The statues are coming down
Jun 11, 2020
How the world sees the George Floyd protests
Jun 04, 2020
A Very British Scandal
May 28, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine and the dangers of "medical populism"
May 21, 2020
A new “cold war”?
May 14, 2020
Worst. Invasion. Ever.
May 07, 2020
Otherworldly
Apr 30, 2020
Two continents, one coronavirus time bomb
Apr 23, 2020
W.H.O. is to blame?
Apr 16, 2020
No one has the coronavirus answer
Apr 09, 2020
A coronavirus “coup” in Hungary
Apr 02, 2020
The other global coronavirus epidemic: Denial
Mar 26, 2020
The US-China coronavirus blame game
Mar 19, 2020
Every country for itself
Mar 12, 2020
Trump and the Taliban make a deal
Mar 05, 2020
One of the worst crises of Syria’s civil war
Feb 27, 2020
The debate didn’t cover foreign policy. So we did.
Feb 20, 2020
Could coronavirus collapse Chinese communism?
Feb 13, 2020
Mini. Nuclear. Weapons.
Feb 06, 2020
The dark logic of Trump’s Israel-Palestine “peace plan”
Jan 30, 2020
Hacking Jeff Bezos
Jan 23, 2020
The entire Russian government just resigned
Jan 16, 2020
Did Trump get Iran right? (ft. Sen. Tom Udall)
Jan 09, 2020
A very Worldly guide to 2019 — and 2020
Dec 19, 2019
India's assault on Muslim rights — and democracy
Dec 12, 2019
That awkward NATO moment
Dec 05, 2019
Today, Explained: Let's talk about that party in Spain
Nov 28, 2019
2020 candidate Michael Bennet explains why Facebook is a national security threat
Nov 21, 2019
Coup in Bolivia?
Nov 14, 2019
Introducing Reset
Nov 12, 2019
Arab Spring 2.0?
Nov 07, 2019
Take the oil
Oct 31, 2019
Brexit, forever?
Oct 24, 2019
The four words that will decide impeachment
Oct 19, 2019
Sen. Chris Murphy on why America's Syria failure goes beyond Trump
Oct 17, 2019
Rep. Ro Khanna’s vision for a new, “progressive” foreign policy
Oct 10, 2019
How Italy, Australia, and Britain got dragged into the Ukraine scandal
Oct 03, 2019
The whistleblower complaint: a close read
Sep 26, 2019
War for Oil
Sep 19, 2019
Why the US can’t win in Afghanistan
Sep 12, 2019
The case for foreign policy restraint
Sep 05, 2019
Boris's Great British Brexit-Off
Aug 29, 2019
The Amazon is on fire
Aug 22, 2019
INF'd
Aug 15, 2019
India’s power grab in Kashmir
Aug 08, 2019
Are the US and Turkey heading for a divorce?
Aug 01, 2019
Boris and Brexit
Jul 25, 2019
Meet the Space Force
Jul 18, 2019
A very special relationship episode
Jul 11, 2019
Under pressure (Live!)
Jul 04, 2019
The Democratic (foreign policy) debate
Jun 27, 2019
How close are we to war with Iran?
Jun 20, 2019
The fight to save Hong Kong
Jun 13, 2019
Jamestown: Utopian for Whom?
Jun 12, 2019
Bloodshed in Sudan
Jun 06, 2019
European Dis-union
May 30, 2019
Collusion in Austria
May 23, 2019
The art of trade war
May 16, 2019
Slouching towards an Iran war
May 09, 2019
Venezuela’s phantom coup
May 02, 2019
Trump is stoking a civil war in Libya
Apr 25, 2019
Maybe collusion, probably obstruction [Special Crossover Edition]
Apr 18, 2019
The end of the two-state solution?
Apr 11, 2019
Brunei just made gay sex punishable by death
Apr 04, 2019
The latest Israel Gaza flare-up
Mar 28, 2019
Understanding the New Zealand attack
Mar 21, 2019
Introducing Switched on Pop
Mar 15, 2019
Algeria’s election, UK’s rejection
Mar 14, 2019
D'oh Canada
Mar 07, 2019
Four countries, two nuclear crises
Feb 28, 2019
Four songs that help explain the world
Feb 21, 2019
Brexit’s biggest hurdle: Ireland
Feb 14, 2019
How America’s longest war might finally end
Feb 07, 2019
Trump’s intelligence failure
Jan 31, 2019
Venezuela has two presidents
Jan 24, 2019
Bollocks to Brexit
Jan 17, 2019
One of the world’s worst dictators is facing an uprising
Jan 10, 2019
Trump's surprise troop withdrawal
Jan 03, 2019
One refugee’s story in Hungary
Dec 27, 2018
Hindsight is 2018
Dec 20, 2018
It was China, in the Marriott database, with the hack
Dec 13, 2018
2 French 2 Furious
Dec 06, 2018
A trio of unlikely senators work to stop the Yemen war
Nov 29, 2018
The case for (and against) open borders
Nov 22, 2018
China’s “concentration camps” for Muslims
Nov 15, 2018
Jeff Sessions is out. Is Robert Mueller next?
Nov 08, 2018
Why fringe groups are winning around the world
Nov 01, 2018
Duck and cover
Oct 25, 2018
A murder and an outbreak
Oct 18, 2018
Where is Jamal Khashoggi?
Oct 11, 2018
The looming Brexit catastrophe
Sep 27, 2018
Trump’s plan to tank the Chinese economy
Sep 20, 2018
Did al-Qaeda win?
Sep 13, 2018
A looming disaster in Syria
Sep 06, 2018
Deal or no deal
Aug 30, 2018
The Trump-Fox News-white nationalist feedback loop
Aug 23, 2018
Talking Turkey (and its economic crisis)
Aug 16, 2018
Saudi Arabia picked a fight with...Canada?
Aug 09, 2018
A man, a plan, Iran
Aug 02, 2018
It’s gettin hot in here, so get really concerned about global stability
Jul 26, 2018
From Russia, with love (and hacking)
Jul 19, 2018
Has Trump actually been good for NATO?
Jul 12, 2018
Why Europe turned its back on migrants
Jul 05, 2018
The military’s biggest challenge? Trump.
Jun 28, 2018
Blame China?
Jun 21, 2018
The Art of the Deal, by Kim Jong Un
Jun 14, 2018
Trump and Kim, sitting in a hotel, T-A-L-K-I-N-G
Jun 07, 2018
The nuclear standoff nobody's talking about
May 31, 2018
Trump’s breakup note to Kim Jong-un, explained
May 24, 2018
The Arab world has abandoned Gaza
May 17, 2018
America is out of the Iran deal. Now what?
May 10, 2018
A war between Israel and Iran could really happen
May 03, 2018
The ideology behind the Toronto terror attack, explained
Apr 26, 2018
The promise and peril of Trump’s North Korea meeting
Apr 19, 2018
Trump has no Syria strategy. Obama didn't either.
Apr 12, 2018
A clear guide to the Israel-Gaza crisis
Apr 05, 2018
The rise of Trump's war cabinet (Weeds crossover!)
Mar 29, 2018
Trump’s Russia policy? What Russia policy?
Mar 22, 2018
Putin’s poisonings
Mar 15, 2018
Rexit special!
Mar 13, 2018
Make Italy Great Again
Mar 08, 2018
Why Xi Jinping’s power grab is dangerous for China — and the world
Mar 01, 2018
Russian mercenaries, Israeli airstrikes, and the bloody future of the Syrian civil war
Feb 15, 2018
Polish Holocaust denial and the weaponization of history
Feb 08, 2018
Why America can’t quit Guantanamo Bay
Feb 01, 2018
Why Trump, who promised to keep America out of wars, keeps escalating them
Jan 25, 2018
A Saudi-Iran proxy war has torn Yemen apart — and America is fanning the flames
Jan 18, 2018
Why Mueller’s obstruction of justice investigation should really scare Trump
Jan 11, 2018
How expensive eggs helped kick off the biggest Iranian protests in years
Jan 04, 2018
“Speak loudly and carry a small stick:” Trump’s foreign policy year in review
Dec 21, 2017
The most political Olympics since the Cold War
Dec 14, 2017
Trump said Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. Now what?
Dec 07, 2017
Rex Tillerson's departure looks imminent as the North Korea crisis heats up
Nov 30, 2017
The president of the world's most powerful democracy doesn't seem to actually like democracy
Nov 16, 2017
Saudi Arabia's real-life Game of Thrones
Nov 09, 2017
The New York attack reveals ISIS’s plan for survival
Nov 02, 2017
What were American troops doing in Niger?
Oct 26, 2017
What the fight over Kirkuk means for Iraq's future
Oct 19, 2017
Trump's risky, pointless plan to undermine the Iran deal without tearing it up
Oct 12, 2017
Puerto Rico’s crisis and the curse of American colonialism
Oct 04, 2017
Angela Merkel won Germany’s election. So did the far-right.
Sep 28, 2017
Trump took his America First act to the UN
Sep 20, 2017
Burma was a democratic success story. Now it’s the site of ethnic cleansing.
Sep 14, 2017
Why more sanctions won’t convince North Korea to give up its nukes
Sep 07, 2017
Why a Mideast peace deal seems further away than ever
Aug 31, 2017
Why Trump doubled down on America’s forever war
Aug 24, 2017
The Philippines’s popular president is murdering thousands of his own citizens
Aug 17, 2017
Is Kim Jong Un more rational than Donald Trump?
Aug 10, 2017
How scared should we be of North Korea's nukes?
Aug 03, 2017
We’re finding out what happens when no one runs US foreign policy
Jul 27, 2017
Why Trump has stuck with the Iran deal he hates
Jul 20, 2017
ISIS’s caliphate is falling. Now what?
Jul 13, 2017
What could go wrong when Trump meets Putin? A lot.
Jul 06, 2017
Why North Korea is scary, comical, and horrifying — all at the same time
Jun 29, 2017
The US is getting scarily close to a shooting war with Russia in Syria
Jun 22, 2017
Introducing: Worldly. Foreign policy wonks, unite!
Jun 15, 2017