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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on international affairs. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of the Cosmopolitan, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)

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00:45:40

The Business of Big Law in the United States

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2025/04/13

Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Business of Big Law in the United StatesPub date: 2025-03-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe legal services industry in the United States is a $300 billion business—bigger than any in the world. In recent weeks, President Trump has targeted parts of the industry to further his own narrow agenda. Adam and Cameron discuss the possible impact. Also on the show: For

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01:33:06

The Situation in Congo - From Mobutu to M23 Rebels...

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2025/04/09

Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Situation in Congo - From Mobutu to M23 Rebels Today w/ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (AR&D Ep. 6)Pub date: 2025-04-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWith this episode of Guerrilla History, were follow up on our last episode of African Revolutions and Decolonization with another discussion with Prof. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, who joined us last time for The Congo - From

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00:58:24

Weaponising Antisemitism

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2025/03/24

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Weaponising AntisemitismPub date: 2025-03-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTwo recent books, by Peter Beinart and Rachel Shabi, discuss the response of Jewish communities in the West to the Hamas attacks of 7 October and Israel’s subsequent destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza, and the shifting politics of antisemitism. In this episode Adam Shatz talks to Peter and

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00:53:14

A Project 2025 Update with Lisa Graves

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2025/03/18

Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: A Project 2025 Update with Lisa GravesPub date: 2025-03-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLast summer Lisa Graves sounded the alarm about Project 2025, the over 900 page plan written by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation that proposed to remake the US government. Now that Donald Trump is in the White House for a second term, he’s using Project 2025 as the

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00:51:01

#274 The Original Green New Deal: The Civilian...

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2025/03/06

Podcast: The Road to Now (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: #274 The Original Green New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps w/ Neil MaherPub date: 2023-05-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the last few years, many on the left have been calling for a “Green New Deal,” but we might have already had that. Between 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps enlisted more than three million young men in a project that planted

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00:54:31

The U.S. Border Patrol

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2025/03/01

Podcast: Lectures in History (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The U.S. Border PatrolPub date: 2025-02-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIndiana University history professor Juan Mora discusses the U.S. Border Patrol and how 20th century immigration laws shaped the creation and development of immigration agencies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from

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00:44:51

A National Heist? Evaluating Elon Musk’s March...

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2025/02/20

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: A National Heist? Evaluating Elon Musk’s March Through WashingtonPub date: 2025-02-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAs Donald Trump’s second presidency enters its third week, Elon Musk is center stage as the Department of Government Efficiency moves to gut federal agencies. In this episode,Justin Hendrixspeaks with two experts who are following these events closely and

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01:10:32

Wolfgang Streeck on Trump, fascism, Europe, the left,...

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2025/02/14

Podcast: Crisis and Critique (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Wolfgang Streeck on Trump, fascism, Europe, the left, the end of capitalism… and a lot more!Pub date: 2025-02-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFrank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the German economic sociologist to discuss the nature and prospects of Trump presidency, fascism, the upcoming German elections and Europe, contemporary capitalism and its crisis, as

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00:41:35

Ep.112: Resisting Nazi-era Narratives at the European...

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2025/02/07

Podcast: EU Scream (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Ep.112: Resisting Nazi-era Narratives at the European ParliamentPub date: 2025-01-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThere are many more politicians and policymakers from the far right on our TVs, in our social media feeds, and in our legislatures. They have a new swagger and an even more conspicuous disdain for their adversaries. "They act like they own the place,"

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01:04:38

Ronald Reagan’s Make-Believe

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2025/01/29

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ronald Reagan’s Make-BelievePub date: 2025-01-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRonald Reagan, as Jackson Lears wrote recently in theLRB, was a ‘telegenic demagogue’ whose ‘emotional appeal was built on white people’s racism’. His presidency left the United States a far more unequal place at home, with a renewed commitment to deadly imperial adventures abroad. Yet he had

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00:52:51

E193 - Israeli Domestic Politics w/ Udi Greenberg

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2025/01/22

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E193 - Israeli Domestic Politics w/ Udi GreenbergPub date: 2025-01-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationUdi Greenberg, associate professor of history at Dartmouth, is back on the podcast to talk about the state of politics within Israel. They discuss the major factors driving domestic politics, the ruling coalition, ultra-Orthodox military exemption, the “centrist”

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00:22:58

Child soldiers and capoeira

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2025/01/15

Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Child soldiers and capoeiraPub date: 2025-01-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the city of Goma, former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Since the start of the conflict in 1996 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, child soldiers have been recruited to fight. After they are demobilised from armed groups, many

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00:22:31

Why is the Democratic Republic of Congo suing Apple?

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2025/01/09

Podcast: The Inside Story Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Why is the Democratic Republic of Congo suing Apple?Pub date: 2024-12-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe world's most valuable company, Apple, is being sued by Democratic Republic of Congo.The tech giant's accused of using illegally-mined minerals in products like iPhones sold worldwide. Apple denies the claim.What's behind this legal action? In this episode:

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00:39:40

Political Economy and Development in Africa with...

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2024/12/18

Podcast: 1050 Bascom (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Political Economy and Development in Africa with Prof. HennPub date: 2024-12-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were excited to talk to Soeren Henn, a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Prof. Henn’s research lies at the intersection of comparative politics, political economy and development economics. He studies

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00:41:57

Lawfare Daily: Deploying the Military at the Southern...

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2024/12/11

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Lawfare Daily: Deploying the Military at the Southern Border, with Chris MirasolaPub date: 2024-11-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Chris Mirasola, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, to discuss the legal and practical considerations surrounding a president’s ability to deploy

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00:59:57

Sovereignty and Extortion in Mexico: A New State

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2024/12/11

Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Sovereignty and Extortion in Mexico: A New StatePub date: 2024-12-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGuest: Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and the author of several books, including The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, Death and the Idea of Mexico, and his latest, Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State

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00:31:44

Anatomy of the Great Replacement Panic feat. Steven...

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2024/11/26

Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Anatomy of the Great Replacement Panic feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael PhillipsPub date: 2024-11-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAround the world, racist influencers have instigated a panic over shadowy global elites who have supposedly conspired to flood white-majority countries with immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia in order to destroy Western

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00:46:01

Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and...

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2024/11/20

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)Pub date: 2024-11-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the structures of governance built upon that foundation

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00:28:30

Germany’s Culture of Remembrance – Is it enough?

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2024/11/14

Podcast: Common Ground Berlin (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Germany’s Culture of Remembrance – Is it enough?Pub date: 2024-11-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSince World War II, Germans have struggled with how best to deal with their history. But even with a formal government policy of “Never Again,” anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany and other atrocities aren’t always acknowledged. Guest host Eden Brockman speaks with

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01:55:29

Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend &...

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2024/11/14

Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge CuéllarPub date: 2024-11-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFeaturing Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligarchies and constant US intervention, the US-backed separation of

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