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Why It Matters — 100 episodes

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1

Honey, I Tracked the War

2

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

3

Allies, Partners, or Frenemies?

4

We Are in a New Era of Warfare

5

The Risk Report for 2026

6

Where Does U.S. Trade Go From Here?

7

Mind the Trade Gap

8

Why It Matters Live!: Food Diplomacy

9

Trade Agreements: Deal or No Deal

10

Tariff Turmoil, Part 2: Steel and Dog Gelato

11

Tariff Turmoil, Part 1: How Tariffs Are Affecting Farmers

12

The Washington Consensus Could Not Hold

13

We’ve Been Looking At Trade All Wrong

14

Why Trade Matters

15

Why Climate Matters: Nuclear Energy

16

New Podcast Spotlight: The Interconnect

17

Why Climate Matters: Water Scarcity

18

Why Climate Matters: The Arctic

19

Why Climate Matters: Pricing Climate

20

Why Climate Matters: Home Insurance

21

Why Climate Matters

22

The Dirty Energy Powering AI

23

Why the World Next Week Matters

24

The New Tech World Order

25

A World Under the Influence

26

Who’s Afraid of the National Debt?

27

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

28

Can West Africa Curb Its Brain Drain?

29

Global Abortion Access After Roe

30

India, Modi, and Hindu Nationalism

31

Publishing in a Polarized World

32

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

33

Remembering the Rwandan Genocide

34

Local Leaders in the Global Economy

35

UFOs: Close Encounters of the National Security Kind

36

2024: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

37

The Year of AI and Elections

38

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

39

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

40

A Turning Point for Global Trade

41

America’s Fentanyl Epidemic: The China Connection

42

The Case for Rebuilding Ukraine

43

Could Climate Change Break Home Insurance?

44

Who Runs the World?... Not Women

45

Taiwan, China, and the Threat of War

46

AI Meets World, Part Two

47

AI Meets World, Part One

48

Down and Dirty: The Global Fertilizer Dilemma

49

A New Nuclear Age

50

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

51

Silencing the Messenger: Global Threats to Press Freedom

52

What’s Cracking in the Arctic

53

2023: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

54

Another Year of Living Dangerously

55

The Three Internets

56

A Troubled Cup for the Beautiful Game

57

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

58

The Cost of the U.S. Arms Trade

59

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

60

The Saudi Exception

61

Trouble Brewing for Coffee

62

Hip-Hop Diplomacy

63

The Power of the Pope

64

Update on Ukraine, With Richard Haass

65

What in the World Is a Global Minimum Tax?

66

Quantum Leap

67

Climate Adaptation: Rising Tides in Coastal Cities

68

Perspective on Ukraine, With Richard Haass

69

CFR Resources for the Ukraine Crisis

70

Batteries Not Included

71

Season Five Trailer

72

Teaser: Nine Questions for the World

73

Hyperventilating Over Hypersonics

74

The Climate for Nuclear Energy

75

Mexico

76

Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military

77

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

78

Spying 101

79

Perspective on Afghanistan, With Richard N. Haass

80

Hey, Remember the Olympics? (Flashback Episode)

81

Japan's Population Problem

82

Water Scarcity

83

When the Microchips Are Down

84

Season Four Trailer

85

Gone Fishing

86

A Global Shot in the Arm With Dr. Fauci

87

The Dollar Privilege

88

"The Most Persistent and Lethal Threat"

89

Russia

90

China's Starring Role in Hollywood

91

The Big Red Button (Flashback Episode)

92

The Future is African

93

A Climate Bomb in the Amazon

94

Let's Talk About Toilets

95

Make America Vote Again

96

Season Three Trailer

97

Dimming the Sky (Flashback Episode)

98

Treasures Looted in War

99

Why We Need International Students

100

Pricing Our Climate