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"That devil has to follow you everywhere"—activism in Singapore
A conversation with Singaporean editor, writer, and activist Kirsten Han.
Jan 19
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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China's disastrous first president
What can we learn from democratically elected Yuan Shikai, who appointed himself emperor?
Jan 7
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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The end of a Mongolian-language newspaper
From wolf hearts to Xi Jinping thought: Journalist Soyonbo Borjgin talks about growing up in Hohhot and his “re-education” after protests against the…
Dec 3, 2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
As the U.S. continues blowing up boats in the Caribbean, author Stuart Reid tells the history of an earlier low point of careless American meddling.
Nov 18, 2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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52:18
Trump is the symptom, not the disease
Unremembered resistance, and what we can actually learn from history to make sense of the world and its leaders in 2025, with historian and author…
Nov 15, 2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Maria Repnikova
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How does a city feel when it's invaded by an occupying army?
Clarissa Ward has reported for CNN on many of the major wars of the last decade. She talks about entering Kabul as it fell to the Taliban, Syria…
Nov 7, 2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Protest and repression in Belarus
COVID taught Belarusians to self-organize. Then they started demonstrating. Author Natalya Chernyshova discusses the protests, crackdown, and dodgy…
Oct 28, 2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Maria Repnikova
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When will people rise up and overthrow the dictator? Not now.
Shades of authoritarianism in Central Asia, with scholar Edward Schatz.
Oct 23, 2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Rhyming Chaos
We interview people who've lived through or studied periods of upheaval or tyranny, or thrived under authoritarian rule, with our eyes on Trump's America. By Jeremy Goldkorn and Maria Repnikova.
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