The Elucidators: Decoding Global News

Steve and Pete look back at a completely uneventful and frankly kind of boring two weeks in American politics.

A new effort is afoot to ban nuclear weapons once and for all. Will it succeed? Should we want it to?

We've got big trouble in the Land of Smiles, where a growing protest movement is squaring off against the country's retrograde monarch.

Far-Right extremists have infiltrated the German armed forces, plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan, and have been found responsible for politically-motivated murders in Greece. What's coming next?

We're in the final innings of the Brexit game. Is UK PM Boris Johnson going to deliver or get served?

Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and it may put the whole Caucasus region at risk.

China is rattling its saber across the Taiwan Strait by sending warplanes across the median line. Are we heading for another crisis?

Friend of the show Prof. Ryan Weldzius of Villanova University stops by to explain what's going on with the global economy during the COVID Era.

Paul Rusesabagina, the Rwanda hotel manager whose heroism during the 1994 Genocide inspired the Oscar-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda, has been arrested and accused of terrorism.

Shinzo Abe is giving up his post as PM of Japan due to health issues. Did his policies succeed in reforming Japan, or is the island nation fated to decline?