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Power Play episodes

February 16, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner versus dictator dynasty
2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa explains why democracy in the Philippines will face its biggest test yet in 2022, how that is a warning signal for the rest of the world, and why she doesn't trust social media companies to play a constructive role in addressing these challenges.
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19 min
February 09, 2022 Climate fail: citizens globally rate their leaders poorly
A new POLITICO Morning Consult Global Sustainability Poll found that a majority of respondents in 13 countries, regardless of political affiliation or political system, think climate change is getting worse and that government and corporate leaders are not doing enough to deal with climate impacts.
We talk to Jason McMann, head of geopolitical risk analysis for Morning Consult, the specialist behind the poll, for insights into why populations are so frustrated, and what trade-offs they are willing to make in order to achieve better climate outcomes.

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16 min
February 02, 2022 Little Panama’s Big Ambitions
Panama for its canal: a central piece in the global trade puzzle. Now Panama’s government is making a play to boost democracy in its central American neighborhood, via a new Alliance for Development in Democracy. The country’s foreign minister Erika Mouynes also takes us behind the scenes of her effort to solve the problems caused by an explosive rise in people smuggling through her territory, and explains how Panama wants to use its canal leverage to force the shipping industry to go green.
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19 min
January 26, 2022 What is Putin thinking?
Are we facing Europe’s biggest war in 80 years? Are we panicking because we don’t understand Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin well enough? What can we learn from the neighbors of Russia who have fended off Moscow?
This week’s guest, Kadri Liik, is a Russia specialist and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She takes us into the mind of Putin and the Russian policy elite — to help us understand what motivates them, and what threats or sanctions are most likely to change their behavior.

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22 min
January 19, 2022 The age of mass distrust
Richard Edelman, the brains behind the world’s leading survey on trust in institutions, joins this week with a severe warning: trust is becoming heavily local, and democracies are experiencing a collapse of trust in government and media. Not only that — there’s a sharp class divide: members of elite groups trust institutions more than ever, while distrust grows among the masses. CEOs are asked to step into this breach. There are also strategic consequences to these trust divides: we explore what happens when China trusts its domestic institutions, while Americans distrust their own institutions.
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17 min
January 12, 2022 How to get Putin
Corruption: you hate it, right? It’s one of the few political problems that unites people across the political spectrum, and around the globe. But how can we actually fight corruption on a meaningful scale?
Whether it’s in Kazakhstan or the United States, a dictator or a stock trader, there’s a common financial thread: secrecy. This week host Ryan Heath talks to Paul Massaro, who advises Congress on who to sanction and expose if we want to clean up corruption … and how to make Russia’s system of oligarchs implode.

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25 min
January 05, 2022 Democracy's new frontline
Established democracies around the world face deep threats to their authority and reputations. One year on from the U.S. Capitol riot and organized attempts to stop Joe Biden from assuming the presidency, several new opinion polls show that tens of millions of Americans think violence against the government is sometimes necessary.
What can be done? In this episode we road-test a proposal for a new Alliance of Democracies, in a panel discussion with key backers of the alliance and a skeptic.

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22 min
December 15, 2021 Saving Truth
What if you can’t discover truth in the future? It’s a real prospect in many countries where collapsing news media economics and deliberate use of misinformation from governments are creating a truth crunch. Global Insider speaks to Mark Thompson, the former New York Times CEO and BBC Director General, who has teamed up with Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner, to launch an International Fund for Public Interest Media.
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19 min
December 08, 2021 Rebooting Democracy
Wherever you look, democracy appears to be under assault. From attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, to backsliding by European leaders, to coups in Asia and Africa: the pressure is on democratic leaders, and the Biden administration in particular, to show that democracy works. This episode of Global Insider previews President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy, taking place virtually Dec. 9-10.
Ryan Heath is the host of the "Global Insider" podcast and authors the newsletter.
Nahal Toosi is POLITICO's senior global affairs correspondent.

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18 min
December 01, 2021 Marietje Schaake calls bullsh*t on Silicon Valley’s self-regulation mantra
It seems like there’s bipartisan compromise for once in Washington, and it’s over one commitment: it’s time to reel in Big Tech. But Marietje Schaake has been sounding that alarm for years. Once one of the youngest members of the European Parliament, Schaake now helps lead the academic discussion around how to regulate some of the biggest companies in the world, like Facebook and Apple, as a policy fellow at Stanford University. She tells POLITICO’s Ryan Heath how she aims to reform Silicon Valley from within, and what it’s like when some of her students take jobs at tech giants.
Marietje Schaake is the international policy director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center.
Ryan Heath is the host of the "Global Insider" podcast and authors the newsletter.
Olivia Reingold produces “Global Insider.”
Irene Noguchi edits “Global Insider” and is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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26 min

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Power Play is POLITICO's new weekly transatlantic podcast hosted by renowned British journalist Anne McElvoy. It takes listeners inside the minds of those who wield power to better…