The Current

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Episodes

Total: 102

This weekend's fast-moving but short-lived revolt by Wagner Group mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozh

Aaron Klein explains the U.S. SEC's lawsuit against cryptocurrency companies Binance and Coinbase, t

The potential security implications of China's corporate control of TikTok's parent company ByteDanc

With former President Jimmy Carter in hospice care, Bill Galston looks back at Carter's administrati

President Erdoğan "has been one of the symbols of democracy's global decline" and Turkey's upcoming

Former CEO of MasterCard Ajay Banga has been nominated to be the next president of the World Bank fo

In his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issue

After the U.S. reached its debt limit last week, Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the Treasury

On the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Élysée, Constanze Stelzenmüller and Tara Varma examine the

In Moore v. Harper, the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case from North Carolina about whether state

China's 20th Party Congress demonstrated that none of Beijing's recent troubles, from public anger o

Amid a host of challenges, the three major priorities of this year's United Nations General Assembly

One year after the U.S. troop withdrawal, Afghanistan faces a collapsed economy, humanitarian crisis

After President Biden's release of his plan for student debt relief, Andre Perry explains the impact

Sri Lanka's new president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, took office last week as the country faces economic

Following the stunning assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Mireya Solís desc

The Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v. EPA narrowed the breadth of powers the Environmenta

Russia has threatened consequences for Lithuania after the NATO member state blocked transit of EU-s

  As the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its fi

While Emmanuel Macron won re-election as France's president, far-right challenge Marine Le Pen's nat