Foreign Policy Playlist
Each week, Foreign Policy’s Amy Mackinnon, will recommend one podcast from around the world, interview the host, and play an excerpt. This curated show is designed to help listeners interested in the things we are—great stories, compelling interviews, and cogent analysis on international affairs—sort through the overwhelming variety of podcasts out there and find the best ones. And occasionally you’ll hear audio from our own newsroom. FP Playlist replaces our flagship podcast First Person.
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Costa Rica’s War on Climate Change
On the podcast: How a tiny Central American country became a leader in reducing carbon emissions.
28 min
152
Inside China’s Reeducation Camps
On the podcast: A Uighur journalist describes the ordeal of her own relatives interned in Xinjiang.
27 min
153
‘To Be a Journalist in Turkey Means You’re Read...
On the podcast: The price one Turkish newspaper editor is paying for angering Erdogan.
29 min
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‘How Do You Balance a Million People Murdered A...
On the podcast: The last living Nuremberg prosecutor describes the Allied trials against Nazi leaders.
28 min
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Not Just Bombs but Economic Warfare
On the podcast: How a Saudi-led campaign has starved Yemen’s children
29 min
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Flirting with Fascism
On the podcast: How Brazilians grew tired of democracy and rallied around a strongman.
29 min
157
‘They Took Them Quietly. All of Them Are in Jai...
On the podcast: A woman who challenged the Saudi regime by getting behind the wheel of a car speaks out.
30 min
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In Negotiations with Iran, ‘There’s Always One ...
On the podcast: Wendy Sherman recounts the grueling path to the Iran nuclear deal.
27 min
160
The Spanish Fraud
Javier Cercas’s new book on the man who impersonated a Holocaust survivor.
23 min
161
Limit Migration to Save Migration
Reihan Salam takes on the immigration debate.
28 min
162
The Bombings the World Forgot
Ambassador Prudence Bushnell survived the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Now she tells her story.
36 min
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Talking to the Taliban
American journalist Ashley Jackson wanted to learn more about Taliban leaders. So she donned a burka and knocked on their doors.
30 min
164
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
On the podcast: An American who was in Turkey during the coup attempt is accused of being one of the plotters.
32 min
165
The Ghost of Smoot-Hawley
On the podcast: The United States’ last big trade war was in 1930. It did not end well. [First broadcast Aug 3, 2018]
27 min
166
Why Was a Private Israeli Intel Firm Digging Up...
Colin Kahl was targeted by Black Cube, the same company Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein hired to discredit his accusers.
18 min
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He Didn’t Know the Klan Handshake. It Almost Co...
On our podcast: Journalist Vegas Tenold describes the six years he spent with white supremacists.
34 min
168
Ordinary Iranians Will Suffer but Regime Inside...
On our podcast: Journalist Jason Rezaian recalls life in Iran under sanctions.
29 min
169
The Ghost of Smoot-Hawley
On the podcast: The United States’ last big trade war was in 1930. It did not end well.
27 min
170
‘It Could Have Led to a Nuclear War in the Midd...
On the podcast: When Israeli extremists plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock.
30 min
171
The Woman Who Defied Iran
On the podcast: Masih Alinejad took off her headscarf and started a movement.
22 min
172
When Ronnie Met Mikhail
As Trump sits down with Putin, we look back at a summit in Reykjavik that helped end the Cold War.
29 min
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Peru’s National Identity Was Bound Up With Conf...
On our podcast, how a country scores two goals in the soccer tournament and finds redemption.
25 min
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They Took the Children for a Bath and Never Bro...
26 min
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He Feared the CIA Would Delete a Document Detai...
A Senate investigator who exposed the agency’s torture secrets tells his story
24 min