Ma Jun is China's leading environmental activist. In this week's Deep Dish, he joins host Brian Hanson during a rare visit to the United States to talk about how he's using big data to hold corporations in China accountable to the environmental damage they're causing in his country.
Deep Dish: Sparking Environmental Reform in China
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Deep Dish: Myanmar Accused of Genocide against Rohingya at UN Court
Since 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, attempting to escape what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign involving mass rapes and killings.
Deep Dish: Hard Truths about Big Tech and the US Economy
Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple are massive companies, commanding so much of the market that they are now being called monopolies. Rana Foroohar explains how these data-fueled tech behemoths are disrupting the US economy and American politics.
Chicago’s Ambitious Transformation Is Possible. The SDGs Can Help.
Cities around the world have begun to map their own strategies onto the SDGs to accelerate progress on their own local goals, and Chicago should too.
Deep Dish: The Case for America to Promote Democracy Abroad
Democratic breakdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the resurgence of authoritarian leaders around the world, suggest that democracy promotion is a failed project. But the United States still has an essential role to play in promoting democratic institutions abroad, argue Ambassador Derek Mitchell and Daniel Twining.
Deep Dish: Congress Has Abandoned Its War Powers. Here's What to Do About It.
The US Congress has not approved a use of force since 2002. Oona A. Hathaway of Yale Law School joins Deep Dish to lay out a step-by-step plan for Congress to revive its war powers.
Deep Dish: A Prize-Winning Peace in the Horn of Africa
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his role in ending a 20-year military stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Wait Just a Minute: Graeme Woods
Journalist Graeme Wood, author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State, takes a minute to discuss the difference between ISIS and Al Qaeda, and if ISIS has truly been defeated.
Deep Dish: Has Brexit Finally Arrived? The Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes Explains.
More than 1,200 days have passed since Britain's referendum to leave the European Union, but little has been decided in that time about how Brexit will actually take place.
Deep Dish: How to End the 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
October 7 marks 18 years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Yet the Taliban and other insurgents continue to launch attacks, hold terrain, and decimate the US-backed Afghan security forces.
Wait Just a Minute: Dr. Alaa Murabit
Dr. Alaa Murabit, a UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth, takes a minute to answer questions on gender equality, its role in global security, what part education plays in promoting gender equality, and what individuals can do to promote gender equality as well.
Deep Dish: From Mao to Now—70 Years of the People's Republic of China
On October 1, the Chinese Communist Party marks seven decades in power, and yet the troubled legacy of revolutionary founder Mao Zedong looms over the People's Republic of China still today.
Deep Dish: American Foreign Policy in the 2020 Election
National security, alliances, immigration, and trade wars have already surfaced in debates and speeches by 2020 US presidential candidates. But how do the candidates’ ideas match those of Americans overall?
Deep Dish: The Australia-US Alliance in a Pacific Century
Australia has long been a strong ally of the United States, but new challenges and opportunities, including the rise of China, confront the alliance in the twenty-first century.
Wait Just a Minute: Katelyn Jones
Council Women, Peace, and Security Fellow Katelyn Jones takes a minute to answer questions on equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion.