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Why It Matters — 100 episodes

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1

Side Effects May Include Dependency on China

2

How Demand for GLP-1s Overwhelmed the Global Drug System

3

Honey, I Tracked the War

4

One Woman's Path From a U.S. College Campus to the Ukrainian Battlefield

5

Allies, Partners, or Frenemies?

6

We Are in a New Era of Warfare

7

The Risk Report for 2026

8

Where Does U.S. Trade Go From Here?

9

Mind the Trade Gap

10

Why It Matters Live!: Food Diplomacy

11

Trade Agreements: Deal or No Deal

12

Tariff Turmoil, Part 2: Steel and Dog Gelato

13

Tariff Turmoil, Part 1: How Tariffs Are Affecting Farmers

14

The Washington Consensus Could Not Hold

15

We’ve Been Looking At Trade All Wrong

16

Why Trade Matters

17

Why Climate Matters: Nuclear Energy

18

New Podcast Spotlight: The Interconnect

19

Why Climate Matters: Water Scarcity

20

Why Climate Matters: The Arctic

21

Why Climate Matters: Pricing Climate

22

Why Climate Matters: Home Insurance

23

Why Climate Matters

24

The Dirty Energy Powering AI

25

Why the World Next Week Matters

26

The New Tech World Order

27

A World Under the Influence

28

Who’s Afraid of the National Debt?

29

Why Is the World Obsessed With the U.S. Election? Ask Germany

30

Can West Africa Curb Its Brain Drain?

31

Global Abortion Access After Roe

32

India, Modi, and Hindu Nationalism

33

Publishing in a Polarized World

34

Can Israel and Iran Step Back From the Brink? (Podcast Takeover)

35

Remembering the Rwandan Genocide

36

Local Leaders in the Global Economy

37

UFOs: Close Encounters of the National Security Kind

38

2024: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

39

The Year of AI and Elections

40

Will India Take America’s Side Against China? (Podcast Takeover)

41

Understanding the U.S. Role in the Israel-Hamas War

42

A Turning Point for Global Trade

43

America’s Fentanyl Epidemic: The China Connection

44

The Case for Rebuilding Ukraine

45

Could Climate Change Break Home Insurance?

46

Who Runs the World?... Not Women

47

Taiwan, China, and the Threat of War

48

AI Meets World, Part Two

49

AI Meets World, Part One

50

Down and Dirty: The Global Fertilizer Dilemma

51

A New Nuclear Age

52

Army of Some: Recruiting Trouble for the All-Volunteer Force

53

Silencing the Messenger: Global Threats to Press Freedom

54

What’s Cracking in the Arctic

55

2023: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

56

Another Year of Living Dangerously

57

The Three Internets

58

A Troubled Cup for the Beautiful Game

59

Climate Adaptation: Rising Tides in Coastal Cities (Flashback Episode)

60

The Cost of the U.S. Arms Trade

61

Update on Ukraine, With Richard Haass: How Will It End?

62

The Saudi Exception

63

Trouble Brewing for Coffee

64

Hip-Hop Diplomacy

65

The Power of the Pope

66

Update on Ukraine, With Richard Haass

67

What in the World Is a Global Minimum Tax?

68

Quantum Leap

69

Climate Adaptation: Rising Tides in Coastal Cities

70

Perspective on Ukraine, With Richard Haass

71

CFR Resources for the Ukraine Crisis

72

Batteries Not Included

73

Season Five Trailer

74

Teaser: Nine Questions for the World

75

Hyperventilating Over Hypersonics

76

The Climate for Nuclear Energy

77

Mexico

78

Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military

79

Podcast Takeover: Nuclear Security, From The President’s Inbox

80

Spying 101

81

Perspective on Afghanistan, With Richard N. Haass

82

Hey, Remember the Olympics? (Flashback Episode)

83

Japan's Population Problem

84

Water Scarcity

85

When the Microchips Are Down

86

Season Four Trailer

87

Gone Fishing

88

A Global Shot in the Arm With Dr. Fauci

89

The Dollar Privilege

90

"The Most Persistent and Lethal Threat"

91

Russia

92

China's Starring Role in Hollywood

93

The Big Red Button (Flashback Episode)

94

The Future is African

95

A Climate Bomb in the Amazon

96

Let's Talk About Toilets

97

Make America Vote Again

98

Season Three Trailer

99

Dimming the Sky (Flashback Episode)

100

Treasures Looted in War