The misguided project of nation-building explains the United States’ failure after twenty years in Afghanistan, as well as why it would be a catastrophic mistake to go back.

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The latest IPCC report demonstrates the scope of the climate crisis, but it’s not clear that politicians know how to get citizens to care.

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Today Insight provides an update on the situation in South Africa, which we last discussed weeks ago. The damage caused by widespread unrest in South Africa highlights the failure of the country’s current leadership to reverse abysmal material conditions.

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Today, Spectacles uncovers the nasty truth behind the Hungarian Prime Minister Tucker Carlson has lately been promoting as a paragon of freedom and explains why this is so important to be aware of for the sake of our democracy.

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On this episode, Harry dives into the popular narrative circulating today, that America's foreign policy ought to be framed as an ideological battle and explores how this is misleading at best and downright dangerous at worst.

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Further reading:

Tomorrow, the World, by Stephen Wertheim.

"A Foreign Policy for the American People," speech by United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken.