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Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. So, grab a beer and buckle up. It gets bumpy! Hosted by Laicie Heeley.
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Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. So, grab a beer and buckle up. It gets bumpy! Hosted by Laicie Heeley.
© Inkstick Media
Can Feminist Foreign Policy help solve the climate crisis?
Will the US adopt a feminist foreign policy?
Cynthia Enloe was the first to ask "Where are the women?" But states with feminist foreign policies have tried to answer that question and fallen short. What now?
What feminism tells us about how to stop genocide.
... and what it has to do with the Kremlin.
A story about the women who fight.
Why didn’t Sweden’s feminist foreign policy work for defense?
The country that started a foreign policy revolution.
War, and peace, has always been a boys club. Until now.
A special bonus episode from one of our favorite podcasts.
Our mailbag episode is here!
As citizens demand more transparency from their governments, they’re also finding new ways to dig up the information on their own.
We talk to Dr. Joan Donovan about what we can expect from the internet in the lead-up to 2024.
Data centers tend to land in places with abundant water, power, and taxpayer subsidies.
The internet in the age of blackouts.
In the wild west of the Internet, misinformation creeps around every corner.
Turns out Google Translate is worse than we thought.
A few things have changed since Oppenheimer.
And no, sharks are not eating it.
Season 8 of Things That Go Boom is coming July 10.
A special episode from our friends at Project Brazen.
Philly’s southeast Asian community is done hiding.
Chef Pierre Thiam and the ancient grain that could help feed the world.
What Lula’s return could mean for Brazilian bellies.
The long fight to protect people from explosive remnants of war... and what it means for the future.
Turns out, even Corn Country, USA isn’t immune to foreign espionage.
In this episode from 2021, we ask: "Which battles are we willing to fight?"
In this episode from 2021, we ask: "Is defense spending really a good way to create middle-class jobs?"
Food insecurity in the force… and what we can do about it.
A conversation about the food we’re robbed of with the writer, cook, and teacher.
Two stories about the loss of land and the persistence of hope.
Food is one of our biggest threats hiding in plain sight.
Season 7 of Things That Go Boom is coming October 31.
Not everything is as it seems.
What does China want from the North?
The Arctic is heating up.
Rep. Ro Khanna thinks Congress can turn it around.
Now, somebody has to be held accountable.
What’s your budget for space lasers?
The how, why, and everything that can go wrong when we arm the world.
Everybody gets a sanction!
We speak with Terrell Jermaine Starr on the ground in Ukraine.
Who doesn’t make the rules?
Most of us will never meet a president. But your House Rep or Senator? They're supposed to speak for you.
Things That Go Boom is headed to the halls of Congress on Feb. 7.
The Marshall Islands wants nuclear justice. The US wants to keep China in check.
An interview with Matt Duss.
Meet this guy.
Which battles are we willing to fight?
Is defense spending really a good way to create middle-class jobs?
National security comes home to ruck.
The darker side of our domestic priorities.
How China’s middle class is driving Biden’s strategy for America’s middle class.
If this is foreign policy for America’s middle class, who is it not for?
Where, as it turns out, nobody knows your name.
Can Biden really connect to his roots? Back to the middle class and where he came from? Can I?
Just one more 100 day episode, filling up your feed.
Spice up your arsenal with baby nukes!
We all love to laugh at a good conspiracy theory. Maybe that's why this one took the US government by surprise.
Things That Go Boom talks ending endless wars and domestic terrorism with Rep. Barbara Lee.
They only have to be right once.
We could be on the cusp of a great northern migration. One that could make millions more vulnerable.
That time we talked to Biden's new National Security Advisor.
Sen. Chris Murphy thinks we might still have a "Chance for Peace."
It's indestructible! It's indescribable! It's the Blob!
Wherein we try to fix your fear, and fail miserably.
It's almost that time!
The solutions aren’t easy, but they’re simple.
The opening battles of WWIII will probably be silent.
Have we become our own worst enemy?
Is the world falling out of love with democracy?
Maybe duck and cover wasn’t so bad?
What happens when a hot dog salesman goes to war?
Did the US hit ‘snooze’ while China rose?
We were preparing for World War III, when we got hammered by World War C.
Have we been preparing for the wrong apocalypse all along?
Laicie and Ruth gather in a hardened bunker in the mountains of Maryland, full of clothes and dirty laundry, to talk about the latest with Iran.
A special bonus interview with Amb. William Burns.
The first clue something was wrong came in the form of an alert on Yegi Rezaian’s phone. Where I grew up,” she says, “these things don’t happen by accident.”
Will Trump's sanctions lead to new nuclear negotiations, or just reinforce a bitter feud?
Is our foreign policy for sale?
Before they were enemies, the US and Iran used to have a thing. In fact, we started their nuclear program.
Diplomacy isn't glamorous, it’s grueling. But when it works, it can stop a war.
Was Trump right to walk away from the Iran deal? Or was there something else -- something more political -- going on?
Are we headed for nuclear war?
It’s been called President Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement -- so why does the Trump administration think it was the “worst deal ever” made?
We don’t always talk about the things that scare us most. First, Ally Harpootlian's grandmother Betty kept a secret life of poetry locked away. Then, a whole new way to look at Shakespeare - and his relationship to war. Stephan Wolfert...
How Nancy Sinatra’s #1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," became a military anthem. Then, a bunch of students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) try to change the world — and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons — with...
In this episode, Laicie explores white nationalism, the Haitian revolution, and the impacts of nuclear weapons production on the Navajo Nation – and goes all the way back to America’s founding to ask, “What is this thing we call national...
Two true stories about nuclear false alarms.
From PRI and Inkstick Media
The End of the World as We Know It
May 13, 202421min 27sec
When news of a new disaster seems to roll in every day… it can feel like there’s little hope.
But what if we had… another option? Not just to reverse course on climate change, but to set the course for a better future.
Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson think we do.
GUESTS: Carol Cohn, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Claire Duncanson, University of Edinburgh
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, Carol Cohn
Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace and Planet
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy, Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Jennifer Thomson, Toni Haastrup, Karoline Färber, Carol Cohn, Paul Kirby