This is the last episode of the dynamic duo of Mac and Ralph. They must leave the pod to finish a rousing year of academia with a bang, or at least a passing grade. To finish their tenure, they discuss how the gangs in Haiti amassed power and imposed themselves into governance. They also talk podcast analytics and tangential anecdotes.

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Mac and Ralph

Mac and Ralph discuss the Myanmar military junta, how people are resisting, and how it all involves a cyber-slavery crypto complex

This week Ethan and Joseph have a look at the last couple weeks in UK Politics. The pod covers the recent and upcoming by-elections, Lindsay Hoyle, Lee Anderson and our political stock picks for the week.

Mac covers three stories about groups of people in Egypt, Mexico, and Thailand who work to help people in need.

To kick off the new semester, Mac and Ralph discuss two topics that cycled through UK news over the winter break: the single-sex space debate and the Houthis in Yemen.

Be advised this episode may include material that listeners find troubling in relation to transphobia.

Image: collection of news headlines that talk about trans people or the Houthis

We answer YOUR questions to celebrate the end of the year! Covering deep topics like capitalist consumerism to mind-blowing revelations about whether twinkified President Snow would have had a podcast. Happy Holidays from the whole Political Duck Team!

This week Ethan and Joe take a look at what's happened recently in British Politics. They take a look at the recent Elgin Marbles debate, Sunak's Conservative Home poll, Boris Johnson's Covid inquiry date, and Starmer's invocation of Margaret Thatcher in The Telegraph

Mac and Ralph go in-depth on several IDP (internally displaced people) conflicts to analyze how refugee crises can form.

picture: "Congolese residential area next to a COMMUS quarry" by Junior Kannah from AFP

This week we, under a new all star cast, take a look at last week in UK Politics and give a more in-depth look at what this may mean in the future for British politics. We talk about David Cameron, the wider reshuffle, Suella Braverman, and Labour's Gaza rebellion.

We take a look at the asylum seeker barges in the UK, make fun of David Cameron, and include some insight on policy in Germany and the US!