On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined, from Erbil, by Lizzie Porter. They discuss the impact of the Beirut blast, a month after the explosion, and answer your questions on the future for a struggling Lebanon.

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On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined, also from Washington, by Sarah Chayes, author of On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake to discuss how modern America fits into a history of corruption and populism. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on Alexei Navalny and how anti-corruption leaders are at risk around the world.

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On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined, from New York, by Adam Tooze, history professor at Columbia University and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. They discuss the role of central banks in the coronavirus crisis (and the climate crises to come), the unhelpful lure of austerity, and, in You Ask Us, take your questions on whether the dollar's days as the world's default reserve currency are numbered.

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On this week's episode of World Review, Emily Tamkin is in Washington DC and Ido Vock is in Tbilisi, and they're joined from London by Professor Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream and a upcoming piece in the New Statesman, titled 'All-American Fascism'. They discuss the ongoing debate about Trump's administration and its historical context, and, in You Ask Us, take your (morbid) questions on the Presidential candidates' line of succession, as well as what the normalised relations between Israel and the UAE mean going forward.

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On this week's episode, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Tbilisi are joined from New York by the New Statesman's Sophie McBain to discuss

what heroism looks like in the age of Covid. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on new forms of nationalism and what a Biden presidency would mean for American troops in the Middle East.

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On this bonus episode of World Review, Jeremy Cliffe speaks to Mark Damazer, former controller of BBC Radio 4, about his personal history with Germany, and the evolution of Anglo-German relations since the Second World War.

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On this week's episode of World Review, Jeremy Cliffe is in London and Emily Tamkin is in Washington D.C. and they're joined by the New Statesman's International Correspondent, Ido Vock, from Tbilisi to discuss Macron's balancing act, Merkel's success, and the future of the Franco-German relationship.

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On this week's episode of World Review, Jeremy Cliffe, in Berlin, and Emily Tamkin, in Washington DC, are joined from London by British-Turkish novelist, journalist and activist Elif Shafak to discuss President Erdogan's controversial changes to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the role of nationalist strongmen across the globe. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your question on what British can do to aid the Uighur and Rohingyas.

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On this week's World Review podcast, Jeremy Cliffe, in Berlin, and Emily Tamkin, in Washington DC, are joined by Nina Jankowicz, author of How To Lose The Information War, to discuss the role of Russia in disinformation. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on what a post-Trump GOP looks like, and whether it might be too late to take a stand against China.

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On this week's episode of World Review, Jeremy Cliffe is in Berlin and Emily Tamkin is in Washington DC, and they dial in with CNN national political writer Brandon Tensley to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement and the extent to which norms are changing in the United States, Germany and around the world. Then, in You Ask Us, the team take your questions on the unconscious bias training and the Polish presidential election.

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