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The Ballpark is the LSE US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark looks more ... more
FAQs about The Ballpark:How many episodes does The Ballpark have?The podcast currently has 5,856 episodes available.
November 20, 2025World Children’s Day: digital futures for children – children’s rights under pressure in the digital environmentIn 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child introduced General Comment No. 25 on children’s rights in the digital environment, marking a milestone in aligning child rights with the digital age. But what real impact has it had?...more1h 31minPlay
November 19, 2025Is there a Trump doctrine? Making sense of US foreign and security policy since Trump’s return to the White HouseIn January 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House. The ensuing months have been a dizzying blur for American foreign and security policy....more1h 31minPlay
November 18, 2025Britain in a changing worldDiscussing the topic, Britain in a changing world, former British Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, Sir John Major, delivers this year’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture....more49minPlay
November 17, 2025LSE: The Ballpark | Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny with Dr Jennifer LindThe last three decades have seen China’s economic rise. Alongside this, China has become much more influential on the global stage, emerging as a competitor to the United States in many arenas, including as a technology and innovation leader....more38minPlay
November 14, 2025Greece’s economic and digital transformation: in conversation with Kyriakos PierrakakisJoin us for a discussion with Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Greece's Minister of the Economy and Finance, on the key challenges shaping the country’s future....more1h 6minPlay
November 13, 2025Spreading it around: a new look at redistribution and taxIn this panel discussion, anthropologists working on redistribution and tax will present the findings of—and interrogate each other on—two recent books....more1h 27minPlay
November 12, 2025America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy eliteAmerica is undergoing rapid demographic change. By the mid-21st century, European Americans, long the country’s largest demographic group, will be roughly equal in numbers to Hispanic, African, and Asian Americans....more1h 30minPlay
November 11, 2025Saving Britain's wildlifeBritain's wildlife has been under pressure for centuries. Many of the large mammals that once inhabited these islands were driven to extinction long ago. In the twenty-first century, insect populations have collapsed by around three quarters....more1h 27minPlay
November 11, 2025Why refugee return is not the solution to displacement crisesThe number of refugees worldwide has nearly doubled in the past decade. Amid this rise in forced migration, the humanitarian community touts voluntary repatriation as the preferred solution to displacement crises....more16minPlay
November 10, 2025Fault lines: the new political economy of a warming worldIn this lecture, Helen Milner addresses why vulnerability, lived experience, and material self-interest will drive the next phase of climate politics, and what that means for diplomacy, democracy and development....more1h 29minPlay
FAQs about The Ballpark:How many episodes does The Ballpark have?The podcast currently has 5,856 episodes available.