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Notes from the World — 60 episodes
Lebanon: “Instability Is the Only Constant You Ever Know”
Afghanistan has seen “five years of absolute madness” under Taliban rule
Haiti: "We Have No Idea What’s Coming"
Spain After the World Cup
"The Israeli settlers are becoming more and more dangerous"
"On October 7th, It Felt Like the Testimonies I Had Been Reading Were Coming to Life in the Most Horrific of Ways"
“Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo Will Fall”: A Conversation About Nicaragua
"People are really panicking" : Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Casts a Shadow Across Africa
"Political and economic groups always saw Fernando as an inconvenient figure for their interests": A Conversation with Verónica Sarauz
"What you basically have in Venezuela is the same dictatorship in place"
“Where Is Due Process? Where Is Democracy? Who Is Standing Up?” Immigration Policy In Trump's America
Democratic Republic of Congo: “There Is Definitely a Strong Sense of Fear”
"We keep pushing away the very people who would help us accomplish our foreign policy goals"
Iran: "Life Is Unbearable Under the Islamic Republic"
Mexico's CJNG made violence “into their language”
“It took so much violence to keep slavery in place for 400 years.”
“This is just the latest symbol of a much larger Florida story.”
Rwanda "has been putting in place a proxy state" in eastern DR Congo
“Venezuela is a country that everybody wants to use as a rhetorical tool in the United States but not a country that a lot of people are interested in actually knowing.”
"If You Don’t Tell Your Own Story, Somebody Else Is Going to Tell It for You."
Marseille: "We're all losers, so we're all winners in a way."
Inside the Maelstrom: Jihadists, Juntas & Russian mercenaries in the Sahel
The Fall of El Fasher
"I think H. P. Lovecraft's time in New York shaped him as the writer that he became."
"We have never figured out how to value Africa at its true worth."
"Ukraine is literally defending us"
"Historically, Mexico's government has been complicit in hiding the high levels of violence."
"This is the face of totalitarianism."
"Haiti Must Change."
Syria's government must "be truly inclusive in a serious and significant manner."
Milei's Argentina
"It is a moral responsibility to listen to the women of Afghanistan."
The Essequibo Question
"Dessalines should be remembered as somebody who, above all else, prioritized the abolition of slavery."
"Not Even Game of Thrones Compares to Bolivian Politics."
Run From Rain: A Conversation with Jess DiPierro Obert
"In Peru, having power means having the capacity to kill."
A Conversation with Joe Boyd
A Conversation About Ukraine’s Literature and Nationhood With Oksana Lutsyshyna
"Palestinians are just like any other human beings."
"We want Elon Musk out of the government.": A look behind the Tesla Takedown protests
Honduras Under the Gun: A Conversation with Jared Olson
Guatemala's Struggle Against Impunity
"What we have left is the street and a resistance movement"
"People don’t suffer less because of the identity of the perpetrator. They suffer equally."
Venezuela “is a state that is not just an ally of organized crime but one that has been taken over by organized crime”
Haiti's Earthquake, 15 Years On: A Conversation with Louino Robillard
“The most important thing is not to despair.”
"Hope is reignited and we can go back and rebuild Syria without tyranny."
“The Russians are always the ones in charge. They give the orders.”
A Discussion with Roqia Samim
A Conversation with Michela Wrong
A Conversation with author Sarah Gerard
A Conversation with Michael Pierse
A Conversation with Manisha Sinha
“When we’re talking about Dodik, we’re talking about Vučić”
“Petro is trying to bring us to a point of no return”
Michael Deibert & Juan Martinez d'Aubuisson on El Salvador
Michael Deibert and Gershon Baskin on Israel & Palestine
Michael Deibert and Louis-Henri Mars on the crisis in Haiti