Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vaunted “stability” has turned into spoliation. The methods he used to fix the corrupt, dysfunctional post-Soviet state have produced yet another corrupt, dysfunctional state—and unfortunately, there is no end to it in sight. Princeton University Professor Stephen Kotkin discusses his recent article, "The Resistible Rise of Vladimir Putin," with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.

Stephen Kotkin on Putin's Rise

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For the most part, when people think of crunching numbers, they imagine charts and graphs. Today on the podcast, we’re exploring unusual ways to look at—or rather, listen to—data. Sound can perhaps present information with more urgency and clarity than a visualization. Since this is Foreign Affairs, and we’re nottracking u-boats underwater, we decided to apply the data sonification technique to some somewhat obscure data sets - including the Cheeseburger Index. Listen in as Matt Kenney describes the creation process and Nick Colas dissects the numbers.

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The Sound of the Economy: Data Sonification and the Cheeseburger Index

With China slumping, energy prices collapsing, and nervous
consumers sitting on their hands, growth has ground to a halt almost
everywhere, and economists, investors, and ordinary citizens are starting to
confront a grim new reality: the world is stuck in the slow lane and nobody
seems to know what to do about it. 
Listen in as Larry Summers, Zachary Karabell, and Anne Kreuger discuss the
dangers, risks, and opportunities of slow growth and what, if anything, there is to do
about it.  



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March/April 2016 issue on ForeignAffairs.com. 



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How to Survive Slow Growth: Part 1 with Larry Summers, Zachary Karabell, and Anne Kreuger

Around the world, incomes and wealth for the majority have stagnated even as they have skyrocketed for those at the top. In part two of Foreign Affairs' coverage on inequality, we explore what works and what doesn’t, from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia, to new kinds of taxes, to Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’ own economic proposals. Hear it from the experts themselves: featuring interviews with Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Jonathan Tepperman, British economist Anthony Atkinson, and political scientist Kimberly Morgan.
This podcast has been edited and condensed. Visit ForeignAffairs.com for a full transcript. 
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Inequality: Part 2 What Brazil Gets Right, A New Kind of Taxes, and What Trump and Sanders Have To Offer

In part one of a two-part series on inequality, we delve
into the rise of economic inequality, when and why it matters, and what to do about it.
Featuring Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, Allison Schrager, New
York–based economist and writer, and Ronald Inglehart, professor at the University
of Michigan.




















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Inequality: Part 1 with Gideon Rose, Allison Schrager, and Ronald Inglehart

Part II of a two-part series highlighting the best Foreign Affairs Unedited podcasts of 2015, we revisit some of our favorite conversations on women and gender from around the world. Featuring interviews with Ira Trivedi on bride trafficking in India, Nadia Hashimi on Afghanistan’s female sons, and Adrienne Mayor on the myth and reality of the Amazons.
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Stephen Kotkin on Putin's Rise

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