On today's show: The Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly approved Mike Pompeo for Secretary Of State after a last minute vote change from Sen. Rand Paul. We speak with Global affairs staff writer at The Atlantic Uri Freidman about Pompeo and the future of the State Department. French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to uphold 'contemporary multilateralism' with U.S. during his first official state visit. We speak with Maxime Larive, senior research associate at the European Union Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Macron’s relationship with President Trump. Human rights expert Leila Sadat discusses her documentary on the lack of prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

On today's show: An exclusive interview with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz from a April 20 conference titled “Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, and the Crisis of Colonialism” at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A look back at 1998 when Central America was hit by Hurricane Mitch. Over 18,000 people died, hundreds of thousands were left homeless.

On today's show: An exclusive interview with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz from a April 20 conference titled “Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, and the Crisis of Colonialism” at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A look back at 1998 when Central America was hit by Hurricane Mitch. Over 18,000 people died, hundreds of thousands were left homeless.

On today's show: The entire Island of Puerto Rico lost power on Wednesday, seven months after Hurricane Maria. We speak with Yarimar Bonilla, associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, on the “Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, and the Crisis of Colonialism" conference. WBEZ Film Contributor and director at Facets Chicago Milos Stehlik chats with filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki abotu his new avant-garde film, El Mar La Mar. Weekend Passport: artist Otobong Nkanga's work is at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 

On today's show: The entire Island of Puerto Rico lost power on Wednesday, seven months after Hurricane Maria. We speak with Yarimar Bonilla, associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, on the “Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, and the Crisis of Colonialism" conference. WBEZ Film Contributor and director at Facets Chicago Milos Stehlik chats with filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki abotu his new avant-garde film, El Mar La Mar. Weekend Passport: artist Otobong Nkanga's work is at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 

On today's show: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Wednesday that the country will hold snap elections in June, a year and a half before previously planned. We speak with postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University Buffett Institute for Global Studies Sinan Erensu about the implications of the snap elections. The annual "Define American Film Festival" is coming to Chicago this week. We talk with journalist, activist, and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas and documentary filmmaker Robert Greene about the festival.  Global Activism: Selah Freedom president and CEO Elizabeth Fisher returns to update us on her work in the Chicago area with Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, and her new partnership with the government of New Zealand.

On today's show: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Wednesday that the country will hold snap elections in June, a year and a half before previously planned. We speak with postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University Buffett Institute for Global Studies Sinan Erensu about the implications of the snap elections. The annual "Define American Film Festival" is coming to Chicago this week. We talk with journalist, activist, and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas and documentary filmmaker Robert Greene about the festival.  Global Activism: Selah Freedom president and CEO Elizabeth Fisher returns to update us on her work in the Chicago area with Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, and her new partnership with the government of New Zealand.

On today's show:  Earth Day is this Sunday! That means it’s time once again for the annual Worldview Earth Day quiz. We hear from past Worldview interviews with special audio questions. We also look at Illinois’ place in the coal economy and tree planting trends. To help Worldview host Jerome McDonnell administer the quiz, we’re joined by Kim Wasserman, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization executive director, and Howard Learner, president and executive director of the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Wasserman won the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for her role in the 10-year campaign to close the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in Chicago, and Learner served as an adviser to President Obama’s 2008 campaign.

On today's show:  Earth Day is this Sunday! That means it’s time once again for the annual Worldview Earth Day quiz. We hear from past Worldview interviews with special audio questions. We also look at Illinois’ place in the coal economy and tree planting trends. To help Worldview host Jerome McDonnell administer the quiz, we’re joined by Kim Wasserman, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization executive director, and Howard Learner, president and executive director of the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Wasserman won the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for her role in the 10-year campaign to close the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in Chicago, and Learner served as an adviser to President Obama’s 2008 campaign.

On today's show: We discuss the intersection of Trump’s economic policy, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Chicago Council on Global Affairs' Phil Levy.  The 'Fashion Revolution' event remembers the victims Of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster. We speak with Nasreen Sheikh, who was a child laborer in a Nepal sweatshop, Goods of Conscience founder Father Andrew O’Connor, and executive director of Chicago Fair Trade Katherine Bissell Córdova. Evanston-based fair trade shop Ten Thousand Villages works with over 850 artisan families in 100 villages in Pakistan to provide fair and sustainable wages to female rugmakers. We talk with Bunyaad Rugs director Yousaf Chaman.