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NOV 20, 2019 Podcast

Gene Editing: Overview, Ethics, & the Near Future, with Robert Klitzman

In the first in a series of podcasts on gene editing, Columbia's Dr. Robert Klitzman provides an overview of the technology, ethical and governance issues, ...

NOV 18, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: Dwight Eisenhower & the Road Trip that Changed America, with Brian C. Black

In 1919, a young Army officer named Dwight Eisenhower, along with a "Mad Max"-style military convoy, set out on a cross-country road trip to examine ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1389061">pxhere/Public Domain</a>

NOV 13, 2019 Podcast

AI in the Arctic: Future Opportunities & Ethical Concerns, with Fritz Allhoff

How can artificial intelligence improve food security, medicine, and infrastructure in Arctic communities? What are some logistical, ethical, and governance challenges? Western Michigan's Professor Fritz ...

780th Military Intelligence Brigade (U.S. Army) operations center at Fort Meade, MD. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.army.mil/article/196311/active_army_cyber_teams_fully_operational_a_year_plus_ahead_of_schedule">U.S. Army photo by Steve Stover</a>

NOV 8, 2019 Podcast

Fighting ISIS Online, with Asha Castleberry-Hernandez

National security expert Asha Castleberry-Hernandez discusses what "ISIS 2.0" means and how the terrorist group has used social media to recruit and spread its message. How ...

Launch of Atlas V carrying the Fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 2019. <br>CREDIT: <a href="https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1932132/mobility-airmen-play-key-role-in-successful-satellite-launch/">U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dalton Williams</a>

NOV 6, 2019 Podcast

Carnegie New Leaders Podcast: The Future of Space Acquisition & Threats, with Maj. Gen. Nina M. Armagno

In conversation with intelligence analyst Amelia M. Wolf, Major General Nina M. Armagno of the U.S. Air Force discusses her role as director of ...

NOV 4, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: How General Motors Shaped America, with Anna Clark

From financing mechanisms to labor policy to the rise of the suburbs, General Motors had a huge effect on the development of the United States ...

A Venezuelan family at the Colombia/Ecuador border, August 2018. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_Venezuelan_family_hopes_to_cross_the_border_between_Ecuador_and_Colombia_on_their_return_trip_to_Venezuela.jpg">Voice of America/Public Domain</a>

OCT 29, 2019 Podcast

Migration in the Americas, Empathy, & Politics, with Daniela Segovia

Political scientist Daniela Segovia, currently an Eisenhower Fellow, discusses the importance of empathy when working on and thinking about migration policy in Latin America. She ...

OCT 23, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: The 1919 Elaine Massacre & the Struggle to Remember, with Nan Woodruff

The massacre in rural Elaine, Arkansas was one of the most violent episodes of 1919's Red Summer of racist confrontations, but it also remains one ...

Palais des Nations, United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/unisgeneva/12537210603">UN Geneva/UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

OCT 21, 2019 Podcast

The Individual & the Collective, Politics, & the UN, with Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former head of United Nations peacekeeping operations, discusses the tensions between the individual and the collective in a ...

Michelle Murray & Stephen Pampinella. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanoni.

OCT 17, 2019 Podcast

The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations, with Michelle Murray

How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? Bard's Michelle Murray offers a new answer to this perennial question, arguing that ...