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Big World shines a spotlight on complex ideas and issues that matter. Each episode features an expert from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC, breaking down a big, important topic into small bite sizes.
Farming's Racist Roots
Agriculture in America is older than the United States itself. But agriculture policy and the politics that drive it have always been, like so much of...
Who Controls the Internet?
Over the past decade, the internet’s role in international affairs has expanded, with governments, including India’s, periodically shutting down the i...
Is the US a Flawed Democracy?
The United States has long considered itself the world's bastion of democracy. However, independent analysis currently doesn't support that belief, an...
A "New START" for Nuclear Weapons
In the early 1990s, the US and the USSR signed the first of a series of treaties designed to limit the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons. In...
Black Masculinity & the Wage Earner Ideal
Amidst the long-overdue reckoning with systemic racism in the US and globally, an area of study that focuses on the lives of Black people and seeks to...
The Long Shadow of the Long '60s
The 1960s started 60 years ago, but the shadow cast by that decade in the US is long. It was a decade that fundamentally changed how the US treats our...
Russia-US Relations After Trump
Russia is defined, at least in part, by its relationship with the United States. In January 2021, US leadership will transition again, and the world's...
The Politics of Food
It is not surprising that food—something so universal yet so individual and culturally specific—would have a place in foreign policy. In this episode,...
Can US Policing Be Redeemed?
Breonna Taylor. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. George Floyd. The list of names goes on and on and on. They are US citizens killed by the police. They are...