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The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz
by Andy Heintz
The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz is a podcast about global politics that features news analysis, opinion and interviews with intellectuals, academics, civil-society leaders and activists in different countries. The Deep Dive seeks to center the lived experiences of people on the ground rather than solely focusing on great power geopolitical intrigue from above. It seeks to promote universalism, democracy, human rights and grassroots democracy from the below. The Deep Dive seeks to plumb the depths rather than skimming the surface of issues. It strives to embrace complexity with humility.
Episodes
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The Heartbreaking and Grotesque Human Consequences of closing U.S.A.I.D.
This podcast episode examines the heartbreaking, horrifying and entirely preventable human consequences caused by the Trump administration's decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development, also known as U.S.A.I.D. Brooke Nichols, Boston University epidemiologist and...
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Why the term Western Civilization needs to be retired
In this podcast episode, I discuss why the term Western Civilization is not only problematic, but also an obstacle to understanding the world and solving the some of the thorniest political issues facing us today. Whether it used as a codeword for white by the Far Right, or pro-science and...
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A Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah
This episode features Part one of an interview I conducted with Kwame Anthony Appiah on March 29, 2025. Anthony is an author, intellectual, philosopher and writer. He writes The Ethicist column for the New York Times and he is a professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Anthony has...
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Solidarity with the Rohingya
This episode is meant to raise awareness and call for more international action to assist and empower the Rohingya, a ethnic Muslim minority whose ancestral home is the Rakhine State, a western state in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Rohingya have faced years of discrimination and…
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Simone Rudolphi discusses Monsoon Revolution in Bangladesh
This episode features an interview I recorded with documentary photographer Simone Rudolphi on August 9, 2024. Simone discussed her time interning for renowned photographer, writer and activist Shahidul Alam in Bangladesh. Simone shared her thoughts on the student-led Monsoon Revolution that…
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Michael Walzer discusses the war in Gaza, Zionism and Israeli Politics
This episode was recorded on May 4, 2025, and it features an interview I conducted with writer, author and intellectual Michael Walzer on September 8, 2024. Michael discusses his views on the war in Gaza, and his critique of human rights organizations and prominent individuals who have accused…
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Veteran Journalist Bill Weinberg discusses Trump, Gaza, and the potential of Protests
This is an interview I conducted with veteran journalist Bill Weinberg on April 23, 2025. Bill is an author, journalist and blogger. He is the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico and War on the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America. His work has been...
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Embracing Heterogeneity and our Common Humanity
This episode features an interview I conducted with Maryam Namazie that was recorded on September 17, 2024. Maryam is an Iranian-born human rights activist, free speech advocate, women's rights activist and blogger. She is the spokesperson of One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims in...
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Small Acts of Empathy and Compassion are part of opposing Trump administration
This podcast includes my thoughts about why small acts of empathy and compassion combined with nonviolent protest are key to pushing back against the cruelty and nihilism of the Trump administration.
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Rwanda should be held accountable for its support of human-rights abusing rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This podcast is about the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23's seizure of Goma -- the largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo -- on January 27, 2025. It discusses the origins of M23 and the humanitarian disaster created by the fighting between the rebel group and the Congolese army…
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Pervez Hoodbhoy identifies and proposes solutions to what ails Pakistan
In Part 2 of my interview Pervez Hoodbhoy, he discusses and proposes solutions to some of Pakistan's biggest problems including settling the Kashmir issue with India, the need for education reform, and creating a more egalitarian environment in the country. Pervez is a media commentator, author,...
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Pervez Hoodbhoy discusses Pakistan's biggest challenges
In this episode, author, media commentator, intellectual and nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy discusses thebiggest problemsfacing Pakistan, and how religious persecution and the exploitation of the general public is built into the country's political system. He also traces the rise of religious...
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Solidarity with Refugees during Trump's Second Term
This episode will feature an interview I conducted with my friend Hayley Rauzi on June 9, 2024. During the interview, Hayley talks about refugee policies in my home state of Iowa and in the United States in general. Hayley has worked for a number of refugee organizations in the state of Iowa...
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Why Fearmongering and the Political Weaponization of Individual Crimes shouldn't be allowed to Frame Immigration Debate
This episode of the Deep Dive features Part 2 of my interview with Maria Gonzalez-Alvarez, which was conducted on July 4, 2024. Maria is a community organizer for the Des Moines-based Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice and the co-founder of Immigrant Allies of Marshalltown, Iowa. Marshalltown is a...
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Immigrant Allies empowers undocumented immigrants and strengthens Local Community in the Iowa Heartland
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out mass deportations when he returns to the White House in January 2025. Trump has already nominated immigration hardliners like Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to be part of his administration. Homan, who will serve…
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Homage to Sudan's Neighborhood Resistance Committees and Accountability for the UAE's despicable role in fueling Sudan's Civil War
This monologue is meant to highlight and support the inspiring social movements that exist in Sudan especially the youth-driven Neighborhood Resistance Committees that helped lead to the ouster of long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, putting an end to his 30-year rule. The Neighborhood...
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Immigrant Allies in Marshalltown, Iowa provides a model of how community organizations in small town America can empower undocumented immigrants while strengthening local communities
In this episode, I talk with Joa LaVille, co-founder of Immigrant Allies in Marshalltown, Iowa. Marshalltown has a population of about 28,000 people including a large Latino population that has enriched the city with restaurants, shops and other important contributions. I had the privilege to…
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Trumpism and the need for Progressive Solidarity with Undocumented Workers
This is a monologue I recorded before Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the U.S. Presidential elections on November 5, 2024. Given the ugly and scandalously dishonest rhetoric deployed by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and other members of the GOP about about undocumented workers, I think...
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Venezuela, International Solidarity and Beyond with Simon Rodriguez
In Part 2 of the interview I conducted with Simon Rodriguez-Porras, we discuss the importance of a consistent and principled international Left that opposes imperialism in all its forms no matter who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. Rodriguez discusses promising examples of principled...
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What the Left and Right get wrong about Venezuela
In this episode of the Deep Divide with Andy Heintz, I talk with Simon Rodriguez-Porras. Simon is the author of "Why Did Chavismo Fail". He also is an editor at Venezuelan voices.org and a writer for the New Arab. In the episode Rodriguez discusses what the Left and Right get wrong when analyzing...
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Part 2: The Dangers of Selective Outrage from Gaza to Ukraine
This is Part 2 of my interview with author and political writer Robin Yassin-Kassab. For those of you who missed the first episode, Robin is the co-author along with Leila al-Shami of of the excellent, important and deeply moving book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. He is also...
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The Dangers of Selective Outrage from Gaza to Syria
Writer and author Robin Yassin-Kassab talks with me about how U.S. support for Israel in Gaza further undermines an international order already struggling under the weight of its own double standards and internal contradictions. Robin and I also discuss the perils of selective outrage and how it...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz is a podcast about global politics that features news analysis, opinion and interviews with intellectuals, academics, civil-society leaders and activists in different countries. The Deep Dive seeks to center the lived experiences of people on the ground rather than solely focusing on great power geopolitical intrigue from above. It seeks to promote universalism, democracy, human rights and grassroots democracy from the below. The Deep Dive seeks to plumb the depths rather than skimming the surface of issues. It strives to embrace complexity with humility.
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