Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Sarah Manavis in London are joined by New Yorker columnist and author Evan Osnos to discuss his new book, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury and how America has changed since the attacks on New York and Washington.

Then in You Ask Us, they answer a listener’s question on whether there could be another Trump or Trump-like president in 2024.

Further reading

Sarah Manavis on how 9/11 internet culture created a blueprint for modern conspiracy theories.

Emily Tamkin on how the 9/11 attacks changed America.

Adam Tooze on the future of US power.

Jonathan Powell on how the war on terror led to the forever wars.

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Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by political analyst and New Statesman contributing writer Bruno Maçães to discuss the political fallout from the withdrawal from Afghanistan

Then in You Ask Us, they answer a listener’s question on what the US handling of Afghanistan will mean for the future of the EU.

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Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin presents a special series from World Review focusing on the German federal election – the runners and riders, the issues and what it means for Germany and beyond.

In this episode we look at the surprise front runner to succeed Angela Merkel: Olaf Scholz. Tarik Abou-Chadi, associate professor of European politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University takes us through the latest polling and how the different candidates fared in the debate.

Plus Philippa Sigl-Glöckner, director of the economics think-tank Dezernat Zukunft and Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform talk us through the economic challenges facing any new government.

You can follow the New Statesman’s German coverage at www.newstatesman.com/germany

Produced by Adrian Bradley

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Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin talk to Ted Johnson, senior fellow at the Brennan Centre for Justice on the fight to protect voting rights in the US.

They discuss the attempts to pass new voting rights legislation and whether this is the right time for the Democrats to end the filibuster and allow the senate to pass bills with a simple majority.

Plus Emily and Ido discuss the latest from Afghanistan after a terrorist attack killed dozens and injured many more outside the airport in Kabul.

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Our latest coverage on Afghanistan

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Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson to discuss the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

They talk about the country’s history of rapid takeovers, the failings of the US and allies and what life is like in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

Then in You Ask Us, they answer a listener’s question on whether President Obama’s surge could have made a difference to the future of Afghanistan.

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Further reading:

John Simpson’s New Statesman essay on the Afghan tragedy.

Emily Tamkin on how the decision to withdraw will haunt Joe Biden's presidency.

Rory Simpson's interview on the end of liberal Interventionism

The New Statesman coverage on the of Afghanistan

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Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin presents a special series from World Review focusing on the German federal election – the runners and riders, the issues and what it means for Germany and beyond.

In this episode we look at Germany’s place in the world and the role foreign policy will play in the election. We speak to polling experts Dr Liana Fix and Julia Ganter from the Körber Foundation about how German voters view foreign policy, and to Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations, on Germany’s foreign policy challenges

You can follow the New Statesman’s German coverage at www.newstatesman.com/germany

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Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in London are joined by New Statesman contributing writer Nick Burns to discuss the political situation in Brazil. They talk about how Lula might be returning to power and what the reaction has been from the Bolsonaro regime.

Then in You Ask Us, they take a listeners question on what a Lula victory might mean for US Brazil relations

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Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by Belarusian journalist Tadeusz Giczan to discuss the situation in Belarus after the athlete Krystina Timanovskaya evaded an apparant kidnap attempt by the regime after criticising her olympic commitee after a muxup during the Tokyo 2020 olympics. As she arrives in Poland on a humanitarian visa, they discuss what western governments could do to put pressure on the regime.

Then they answer a listener's question on what can be done to about Belarus escorting Iraqi migrants into the EU.

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Read more: The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is advancing quickly – but so is the Taliban

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Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin presents a new series from World Review focusing on the German Federal Election 2021 – who will be the next chancellor of Germany?

We speak to the New Statesman’s Ben Walker as we launch our new german polling tracker – and discuss what to expect from the campaign with Constanze Stelzenmüller, the Fritz Stern chair on Germany and trans-atlantic relations at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC and journalist and author Khuê Phạm from Zeit magazine in Berlin.

You can follow all of the New Statesman’s Germany coverage at www.newstatesman.com/germany

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Historian and economist Adam Tooze joins Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington, DC to talk about his New Statesman cover story on the West's relationship with China. They talk about who China's allies are and what impact climate change will have on geopolitics.

Then in You Ask Us, they take a listener's qustion on how green finance is changing neo-liberalism

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