Global Politics
Our stories explore the politics behind the news, with analysis ranging from Washington, DC to Damascas, Syria
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PRI's The World
November 21, 2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday she would seek a fourth term in elections next year to defend democratic principles in the face of looming threats at home and abroad.
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November 21, 2016
The pope's declaration makes permanent a temporary measure put in place for the Vatican's jubilee year.
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PRI's The World
November 21, 2016
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11/21/2016 - 2:45pm
An Argentine journalist caused an uproar alleging that Donald Trump used a congratulations call from President Mauricio Macri to press the Argentine leader to help advance a Buenos Aires building project.
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Agence France-Presse
November 19, 2016
Barack Obama faced tough questions Saturday about Donald Trump's victory on the last foreign visit of his presidency, to a summit of Pacific leaders that has been upended by the US election and concerns about China's rise.
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PRI's The World
November 18, 2016
One of them is Thilmeeza Hussain. She's from the tiny, low-lying island nation of the Maldives, which is slowly being inundated by the rising waters of the Indian Ocean.
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PRI's The World
November 18, 2016
That is how Turkish President Recep Erdogan has described a radical policy to fire or arrest anyone suspected of supporting an attempted coup against his government this summer.
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PRI's The World
November 18, 2016
Mike Pompeo, a Tea Party hawk chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, also opposes the Iran deal and efforts to close Guantanamo.
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Whose Century Is It?
November 18, 2016
One of the taller tasks facing President-elect Donald Trump is to find ways to restore faith in an office, and in a government, that he helped degrade. But he didn't do it alone. American trust in government and other institutions has been sliding for years. Weighing in on why, and how to move forward, is Garry Wills, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, and author of many books and essays on faith, trust and politics.
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The Takeaway
November 17, 2016
Fake news has been the hot topic in the wake of the most recent election. PRI's Todd Zwillich reflects on his own encounter with a consumer of fake news..
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Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence
The Takeaway
July 02, 2015
Updated
Not long after the shooting in Charleston, a US House of Representatives committee rejected a measure that would have allowed the CDC to conduct research into gun violence, leaving intact a ban pushed by the NRA back in the 1990s. That leads to odd gun violence reports that are not about guns.
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Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them.
The Takeaway
April 12, 2015
Research commissioned by the CDC in 1993 showed that gun owners faced higher risks for both homicides and suicides. But the NRA quickly moved to silence the studies — and make sure no other similar studies would get federal funding. They succeeded.
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A California statue stirs passions in South Korea and ire in Japan
PRI's The World
January 29, 2014
The Korean American community is standing by a new statue honoring thousands of "comfort women," or sex slaves, used by Japanese soldiers during World War II. Japanese conservatives say the statue has to go. And both sides are taking the issue to the White House.
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John Hockenberry: Why I'm done with the 9/11 ritual
The Takeaway
September 11, 2015
"I cannot deny people's grief," writes the host of the radio show The Takeaway, who works not that far from Ground Zero. "But I think the 9/11-ization of American life has been a kind of poison for all of us."
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Discussion: Why is citizenship so significant in the debate on immigration reform?
October 14, 2013
What makes the issue of citizenship so divisive? What does the “path to citizenship” look like now and what obstacles already exist for immigrants? What impact might the different plans have on this country? Join an online discussion.
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Historians disagree on whether 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is racist
PRI's The World
August 30, 2016
The decision of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stop standing for the national anthem has provoked a lot of debate, to say the least. One part of the argument is about the anthem's little-known third stanza, and whether it is racist.
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How to help Syrian refugees? These groups you may not know are doing important work
PRI's The World
September 03, 2015
Updated
While governments are grappling with a surge of refugees, these groups are working hard to help the people fleeing war and human rights abuses in Syria.
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Jorge Ramos: Life under President Donald Trump
Univision
August 26, 2015
Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos got kicked out of a Donald Trump press conference in Iowa. This is what he wrote about Trump's proposed immigration plan before that even happened.
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Policing the language of the Holocaust in Poland
PRI's The World
August 18, 2016
This week the right-wing Polish governing party proposed a new law to outlaw the use of phrases like "Polish death camp" or "Polish concentration camp."
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So why aren't young Americans spooked by NSA surveillance?
PRI's The World
February 14, 2014
Around the world, revelations about NSA spying have caused outrage and protests. But not so much in the US. In fact, older Americans seem more worried than digitally plugged-in youth, whose electronic lives are being monitored. One researcher says young people don't seem so worried about the government acting as Big Brother.