In February, a colleague at the Watson Institute forwarded the team at Trending Globally an email from a former student. The subject line read: “I wri...

This is the fourth and final part in a special series from Trending Globally exploring the housing crisis in the United States, and in Rhode Island in...

2020 was a year defined by loss. Loss of life, of jobs, of opportunities. On this episode Sarah talks with Juliet Hooker, a political theorist and pro...

So many people have suffered as a result of the pandemic. But there’s one group who may pay the price for an especially long time: America’s children....

Scientists have developed vaccines for Covid-19 in record time. Now how do we convince enough people to take them? To get a better understanding of th...

On this episode Watson’s Director Ed Steinfeld talks with Deborah Seligsohn as part of Trending Globally’s ongoing series on contemporary China. Debor...

India and the US have both struggled with anti-democratic forces the last few years. What lessons do these countries' struggles have for each other --...

What can one of America’s smallest states teach us about US politics? A lot, it turns out. On this episode Sarah talks with the Boston Globe’s Dan McG...

On this episode Sarah talks with Watson Senior Fellow and member of Watson’s Climate Solutions Lab Deborah Gordon. Deborah is an expert on one of the ...

On this episode, the shocking history of one of history’s most toxic relationships. Sarah talks with Peter Andreas about his book ‘Killer High: A Hist...