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
		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
		Introducing Future Perfect	10.20.2018
		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
		The nuclear standoff nobody's talking about	05.31.2018
		Trump’s breakup note to Kim Jong-un, explained	05.24.2018
		The Arab world has abandoned Gaza	05.17.2018
		America is out of the Iran deal. Now what?	05.10.2018
		A war between Israel and Iran could really happen	05.03.2018
		The ideology behind the Toronto terror attack, explained	04.26.2018
		The promise and peril of Trump’s North Korea meeting	04.19.2018

LAST EPISODE

Understanding the New Zeala...

03.21.2019

Zack, Jenn, and Alex delve into the dark far-right echo chamber that seemingly motivated the New Zealand mosque shooter. They talk about the French origins of apocalyptic theories about nonwhites and Muslims overrunning the West, how those ideas went global, ...