On today’s show: Brant Rosen and Jennifer Bing made what could be the last trip to Israel and Palestine last fall after Israel amended a law to allow banning activists who promote the boycott of Israel and its settlements last year. While climate change’s acute effects like rising sea levels aren’t as immediately threatening to Chicago as New York, we’re going to see what the city can do to fight climate change with Howard Learner, executive director of the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Historian John Schmidt shares how the idea of the world's first subway came to fruition. CAUSEGEAR founder Brad Jeffrey explains how its line of accessories and clothing is changing the lives of former slaves and people vulnerable to exploitation in India.

On today's show: The Atlantic writer Uri Freidman discusses national security adviser H.R. McMaster's ideology around a possible nuclear confrontation.Jacqueline Litzgus, a professor of biology at Laurentian University, talks about freshwater turtles. Close Guantanamo co-founder Andy Worthington discusses the protest of Guantanamo's continued operation, a day before the detention facility's 16th anniversary.

On today's show: The Atlantic writer Uri Freidman discusses national security adviser H.R. McMaster's ideology around a possible nuclear confrontation.Jacqueline Litzgus, a professor of biology at Laurentian University, talks about freshwater turtles. Close Guantanamo co-founder Andy Worthington discusses the protest of Guantanamo's continued operation, a day before the detention facility's 16th anniversary.

On today's show:Jesuit scholastic Matt Ippel discusses threats in Honduras after an anonymous flyer accused religious activists of having ties to criminal organizations. Kambale Musavuli, the national spokesperson of Friends of the Congo, joins us to discuss the recent protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo against President Joseph Kabila. 

On today's show:Jesuit scholastic Matt Ippel discusses threats in Honduras after an anonymous flyer accused religious activists of having ties to criminal organizations. Kambale Musavuli, the national spokesperson of Friends of the Congo, joins us to discuss the recent protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo against President Joseph Kabila. 

On today’s show: Diplomat Karen AbuZayd discusses the situation in Syria and the fate of refugees from the Middle East after the U.S. government recently froze a $125 million transfer that was supposed to keep a U.N. agency afloat at the beginning of the year. Minister Amanda Weatherspoon and researcher Nadya Tannous share the similarities they’ve found between mass incarceration of black American and Palestinian youth.

On today’s show: Diplomat Karen AbuZayd discusses the situation in Syria and the fate of refugees from the Middle East after the U.S. government recently froze a $125 million transfer that was supposed to keep a U.N. agency afloat at the beginning of the year. Minister Amanda Weatherspoon and researcher Nadya Tannous share the similarities they’ve found between mass incarceration of black American and Palestinian youth.

On today's show:When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said he’d be releasing political prisoners on Wednesday, many western allies were satisfied. Critics say there's been a whitewashing of the murder of at least 1,000 ethnic Oromo. WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik looks back to some of his favorite films of 2017. And for Weekend Passport: Indigenous Alaskans try to save their language.

On today's show:When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said he’d be releasing political prisoners on Wednesday, many western allies were satisfied. Critics say there's been a whitewashing of the murder of at least 1,000 ethnic Oromo. WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik looks back to some of his favorite films of 2017. And for Weekend Passport: Indigenous Alaskans try to save their language.

On today's show: University of Chicago history professor Bruce Cumings discusses the prospects for thawing tensions between North and South Korea. Chicagoan Sonia Negrón Bell updates us on Puerto Rico's post-hurricane recovery. For our Global Activism segment, Susu Accessories founders Zulima Anaya, Laura McMahon, and Nadia Roberts discuss how their company directly pays women in the indigenous Wayúu tribe in Colombia’s Guajira desert.