Vox's Worldly

By Vox

SHOW DESCRIPTION

We live in a confusing time, bombarded every day with news from around the world that can be hard to follow, or fully understand. Let Worldly be your guide. Every Thursday, senior writer Zack Beauchamp, senior foreign editor Jennifer Williams, and staff defense writer Alex Ward give you the history and context you need to make sense of the moment and navigate the world around you. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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	EPISODES LIST
		The art of trade war	05.16.2019
		Slouching towards an Iran war	05.09.2019
		Venezuela’s phantom coup	05.02.2019
		Trump is stoking a civil war in Libya	04.25.2019
		Maybe collusion, probably obstruction [Special Crossover Edition]	04.18.2019
		The end of the two-state solution?	04.11.2019
		Brunei just made gay sex punishable by death	04.04.2019
		The latest Israel Gaza flare-up	03.28.2019
		Understanding the New Zealand attack	03.21.2019
		Introducing Switched on Pop	03.15.2019
		Algeria’s election, UK’s rejection	03.14.2019
		D'oh Canada	03.07.2019
		Four countries, two nuclear crises	02.28.2019
		Four songs that help explain the world	02.21.2019
		Brexit’s biggest hurdle: Ireland	02.14.2019
		How America’s longest war might finally end	02.07.2019
		Trump’s intelligence failure	01.31.2019
		Venezuela has two presidents	01.24.2019
		Bollocks to Brexit	01.17.2019
		One of the world’s worst dictators is facing an uprising	01.10.2019
		Trump's surprise troop withdrawal	01.03.2019
		One refugee’s story in Hungary	12.27.2018
		Hindsight is 2018	12.20.2018
		It was China, in the Marriott database, with the hack	12.13.2018
		2 French 2 Furious	12.06.2018
		A trio of unlikely senators work to stop the Yemen war	11.29.2018
		The case for (and against) open borders	11.22.2018
		China’s “concentration camps” for Muslims	11.15.2018
		Jeff Sessions is out. Is Robert Mueller next?	11.08.2018
		Why fringe groups are winning around the world	11.01.2018
		Duck and cover	10.25.2018
		A murder and an outbreak	10.18.2018
		Where is Jamal Khashoggi?	10.11.2018
		The looming Brexit catastrophe	09.27.2018
		Trump’s plan to tank the Chinese economy	09.20.2018
		Did al-Qaeda win?	09.13.2018
		A looming disaster in Syria	09.06.2018
		Deal or no deal	08.30.2018
		The Trump-Fox News-white nationalist feedback loop	08.23.2018
		Talking Turkey (and its economic crisis)	08.16.2018
		Saudi Arabia picked a fight with...Canada?	08.09.2018
		A man, a plan, Iran	08.02.2018
		It’s gettin hot in here, so get really concerned about global stability	07.26.2018
		From Russia, with love (and hacking)	07.19.2018
		Has Trump actually been good for NATO?	07.12.2018
		Why Europe turned its back on migrants	07.05.2018
		The military’s biggest challenge? Trump.	06.28.2018
		Blame China?	06.21.2018
		The Art of the Deal, by Kim Jong Un	06.14.2018
		Trump and Kim, sitting in a hotel, T-A-L-K-I-N-G	06.07.2018

LAST EPISODE

The art of trade war

05.16.2019

Zack, Jenn, and Alex examine Trump’s trade war with China, which appears to be back on after negotiations failed to produce a deal. They run through how we got here, what’s happened so far in terms of escalating tit-for-tat tariffs, ...