Obaidullah Baheer has built his career promoting progress in Afghanistan: He’s a university lecturer on intractable conflicts and who advocates for women’s and minority rights online. But his life could have wound up very different. As the grandson of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar — the leader of Islamist rebel group Hezb-i-Islami — he was once…
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Disinformation and misinformation have been blurring the line between fantasy and reality since the start of communication itself. But over the last decade, they’ve posed an increasing threat to democracy in the United States, with the 2016 presidential election becoming a major flashpoint in Americans’ understanding of the consequences of…
One morning in the 2010s, a rural midwestern farmer called the cops. There was a guy in a suit sniffing…
We turn our attention to the narrow strait that divides China and Taiwan, which some analysts believe is…
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Many Americans once viewed the US military as a reliable road to a middle-class life. But, despite…
Samin Nosrat joins us to talk about cooking, conflict, and the global forces shaping the food on our…
On the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, endangered plants bloom on the shrubsteppe. The Yakama Nation signed…
When we’re not in a crisis, food doesn’t tend to make it into stump speeches or budget pressers.…