On November 2, 2022, the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Tigray Region, who have been fighting for two years, signed a ceasefire agreement brokered by the African Union. Ambassador Tibor Nagy, former assistant secretary of state for African Affairs and Donald Booth, former Ambassador to Ethiopia and special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, discuss the significance of this critical step toward enduring peace and the promises and perils ahead in its implementation with host Carol Castiel.

In a stunning reversal of expectations, many Republican candidates underperformed their Democratic opponents in several key congressional and statewide races in the November 8 midterm elections. Jim Kessler, vice president for policy at Third Way, and John Fortier, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, discuss with host Carol Castiel the primary factors which minimized losses for the Democrats, from former President Trump’s role in endorsing flawed candidates to the overturning of abortions rights by the US Supreme Court.

In one of the most anticipated and hotly contested elections in Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeats sitting President Jair Bolsonaro by a slim margin. Eric Farnsworth, Vice President of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas, and Bruna Santos, senior advisor at the Brazil Institute of the Wilson Center, discuss with host Carol Castiel the domestic and international challenges and opportunities facing President-elect “Lula.”

China experts David Shullman at the Atlantic Council, and Carla Freeman at the US Institute of Peace, talk with host Carol Castiel about the implications of the recently concluded 20th Communist Party Congress, which awarded Xi Jinping an unprecedented third term as Party head.

Host Carol Castiel speaks with former British diplomat Nicholas Westcott, now director of the Royal African Society, and American international affairs analyst, Calvin Dark, co-founder of RC Communications, about the future of the British monarchy overseas.

Veteran foreign policy journalist, Laura Rozen, and director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute, Alex Vatanka, join host Carol Castiel to discuss what triggered the recent women-led anti-regime protests in Iran and brutal crackdown by Tehran.

On the 30th anniversary of the Rome General Peace Accords, which ended the Mozambican civil war, experts Alex Vines of the London-based Chatham House, and Anne Pitcher,of the University of Michigan join Carol Castiel to reflect on progress and setbacks in this strategic southern Africa country.

The US Supreme Court begins a new term on October 3rd. Carol Castiel talks with Carrie Severino, president of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network and Elliot Mincberg, senior counsel at the liberal People for the American Way, about the makeup and direction of the high court.

Andrea Kendall-Taylor of the Center for a New American Security, & Will Pomeranz of the Wilson Center, discuss with Carol Castiel the significance of Ukraine’s successful counteroffensives against Russia & Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intention to call up reservists & annex parts of Ukraine.

Carol Castiel talks with Jim Kessler of Third Way, and John Fortier of the American Enterprise Institute about the unusual political landscape in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. They spar over the issues driving the electorate to the polls and prospects for both Republican and Democrats.