Commentary and Analysis

Pavin Chachavalpongpun joins Deep Dish to explain how social media makes Thailand's youth protests different than past movements.

Erin Sweeney provides guest commentary on food, agriculture, and forestry in Southeast Asia.

Historian Thant Myint-U, author of The Hidden History of Burma, joins Deep Dish to discuss Burma’s recent struggles with race, capitalism, and democracy, as well as the consequences for Southeast Asia.

Tom Pepinsky  of Cornell University and the Brookings Institution joins  Deep Dish  to discuss the overcrowded capital city Jakarta’s sinking.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), is to be signed March 8—one year after the US stepped away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Karl Friedhoff discusses North Korea's claims to have successfully detonated its first hydrogen bomb as a "self-defense against the U.S."