On today's show: Saudi Arabia and Russia are increasing global anxiety over nuclear proliferation. We talk about the implications of the Russian and Saudi nuclear moves with Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, a non-proliferation NGO. Despite Venezuela being one of the Western hemisphere’s most oil-rich countries, most Venezuelans can’t afford basic commodities like food. We discuss the ongoing crisis with David Smilde, senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, and Verónica Zubillaga, associate professor of Behavioral Sciences and Technologies at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas. For our weekly Global Activism segment, Brett Weiss explains his efforts to establish a scholarship fund to help deserving children in Dago, Kenya get through high school.

On today’s show: As Chinese and African migrants in China intermarry and have biracial children, questions of belonging and assimilation intensify. L.A.-based filmmaker Kathy Huang and University of Oslo sociologist Heidi Østbø Haugen discuss the complicated relationship. For our weekly Global Notes segment, we’ll explore some of the featured performers at the Folk Alliance International Conference, which music journalist Catalina Maria Johnson says supports indigenous and Latinx musicians and acknowledges their integral, but long overlooked, role in North American folk music.

On today’s show: As Chinese and African migrants in China intermarry and have biracial children, questions of belonging and assimilation intensify. L.A.-based filmmaker Kathy Huang and University of Oslo sociologist Heidi Østbø Haugen discuss the complicated relationship. For our weekly Global Notes segment, we’ll explore some of the featured performers at the Folk Alliance International Conference, which music journalist Catalina Maria Johnson says supports indigenous and Latinx musicians and acknowledges their integral, but long overlooked, role in North American folk music.

On today’s show: University of Michigan professor Juan Cole analyzes the United Nations Security Council’s approval of a 30-day ceasefire between Syria's government and guerrillas in Eastern Ghouta. Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, A Rohingya Day of Action organizer, discusses what Chicagoans can do to help the Rohingya. One Earth Film Festival founder Ana Garcia-Doyle previews some of the festival offerings. Director and producer Linda Booker discusses her film Straws, which is a part of the festival and traces the damage done by the some 500 million-plus plastic straws Americans use once, and discard, every day.

On today’s show: University of Michigan professor Juan Cole analyzes the United Nations Security Council’s approval of a 30-day ceasefire between Syria's government and guerrillas in Eastern Ghouta. Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, A Rohingya Day of Action organizer, discusses what Chicagoans can do to help the Rohingya. One Earth Film Festival founder Ana Garcia-Doyle previews some of the festival offerings. Director and producer Linda Booker discusses her film Straws, which is a part of the festival and traces the damage done by the some 500 million-plus plastic straws Americans use once, and discard, every day.

On today’s show: China’s Communist Party announced on Sunday it would do away with term limits for the presidency, and we discuss what the decision could mean for President Xi Jinping with Wen Huang — a Chicago-based writer, journalist, and human rights advocate. We talk about how Olympic athletes were treated to some of the Gangwon province’s unique food and other uniquely Korean hospitality customs in Pyeongchang with Soo Kang, who teaches hospitality management at Colorado State University. Samira Ahmed’s shares how her experiences navigating adolescence as a Muslim immigrant in suburban Batavia after 9/11 inspired her new young adult novel, Love, Hate & Other Filters. Historian John Schmidt shares how the same radio waves we use to listen to WBEZ also helped defeat the Nazis in today’s World History Moment.

On today’s show: China’s Communist Party announced on Sunday it would do away with term limits for the presidency, and we discuss what the decision could mean for President Xi Jinping with Wen Huang — a Chicago-based writer, journalist, and human rights advocate. We talk about how Olympic athletes were treated to some of the Gangwon province’s unique food and other uniquely Korean hospitality customs in Pyeongchang with Soo Kang, who teaches hospitality management at Colorado State University. Samira Ahmed’s shares how her experiences navigating adolescence as a Muslim immigrant in suburban Batavia after 9/11 inspired her new young adult novel, Love, Hate & Other Filters. Historian John Schmidt shares how the same radio waves we use to listen to WBEZ also helped defeat the Nazis in today’s World History Moment.

On today’s show: We discuss Winter Olympics diplomacy with Bruce Cumings, professor of history at the University of Chicago. WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik, director at Facets Chicago, interviews famed cinematographer and director Sally Potter about her latest project, the star-studded British black comedy The Party. For our Weekend Passport segment, internationally renowned flamenco dancer Estrella Morena and singer Amparo “La Repompilla” Heredia give a live performance with performers from the Chicago Flamenco Festival. We also discuss the festival with Antonio Martinez, director of Instituto Cervantes of Chicago. And as always, global citizen Nari Safavi will give us a heads up on other great international experiences in Chicago this weekend.

On today’s show: We discuss Winter Olympics diplomacy with Bruce Cumings, professor of history at the University of Chicago. WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik, director at Facets Chicago, interviews famed cinematographer and director Sally Potter about her latest project, the star-studded British black comedy The Party. For our Weekend Passport segment, internationally renowned flamenco dancer Estrella Morena and singer Amparo “La Repompilla” Heredia give a live performance with performers from the Chicago Flamenco Festival. We also discuss the festival with Antonio Martinez, director of Instituto Cervantes of Chicago. And as always, global citizen Nari Safavi will give us a heads up on other great international experiences in Chicago this weekend.

On today’s show: Worldview talk about the influence of famous evangelical leader Billy Graham with writer and filmmaker Frank Schaeffer, son of another evangelical giant, theologian Francis Schaeffer. Thor Pedersen travels the world on $20 a day to prove that intercultural encounters can happen, even at the simplest levels. He tells us how he does it.