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Nearly five years ago, Hoda Muthana and Shamima Begum left their respective homes in Alabama and London and traveled to Syria, where they swore loyalty to ISIS. Now they want to return home. But can they? A new UN report examines the question.

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After US President Donald Trump said that the Sino-American trade truce could be extended beyond March 1, Chinese and American delegations rushing to negotiate a deal breathed a sigh of relief. But the dispute between the US and China is about much more than trade, says New York University professor Ann Lee.

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When it comes to tackling the challenges of inequality, are we asking the right questions? Or, for that matter, measuring the right indicators? Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2015, says no, and it's masking a public health crisis. **Also featuring Princeton University professor and economist Anne Case

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For the past several decades, world leaders, CEOs, tech titans, billionaires, philanthropists, and celebrities have descended upon Davos, Switzerland with the goal of “improving the state of the world.” Anand Giridharadas, author of "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", says they are part of the problem.This episode was recorded on Wednesday, January 23, 2019.

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The Chinese authorities' control of citizens' online activity is intensifying under President Xi Jinping. But for Xiao Qiang, an expert on Chinese censorship at the University of California, Berkeley, the more worrying trend is a shift toward dystopian forms of digital domination that could affect people worldwide.

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The US-led international order is fraying under the leadership of Donald Trump. But as Mira Rapp-Hooper and Rebecca Friedman Lissner explain, rather than assigning blame, policymakers should focus on what the American role in the world will be the day after Trump leaves office.

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Growing inequality, accelerating globalization, and new technologies are contributing to a populist backlash that is upending the economic, political, and diplomatic norms of the last seven decades. In our special live event podcast, four leading economists offer their views on the year ahead.**This episode discusses themes featured in our annual magazine, The Great Disruption. Order your copy at www.project-syndicate.org/order/magazine/magazine2019.**

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For global-health professionals, the successful war on HIV/AIDS is a model to emulate when targeting other hard-to-contain pandemics. But as Columbia University’s Elizabeth Radin notes, the biggest obstacles to overcoming public-health crises are usually political, not scientific.

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For more than two generations, economic orthodoxy has held that governments that invest and regulate the least govern best. But Diane Coyle, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, discusses how state-led investment and regulation can boost economic growth and human welfare.

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In China’s far West, Muslim Uighurs are under attack in a wave of official repression occurring on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution. For James Leibold, an expert in China’s ethnic policies, the question is not what China is doing, but how to stop it.* This podcast was recorded on September 26, 2018. Follow James Leibold, Associate Professor, La Trobe University, at https://twitter.com/jleibold. *

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