U.S. Tackles Tensions Between Japan & China
President Barack Obama lands in Tokyo today, the first stop on his week-long trip through Southeast Asia.At the top of his agenda are the rising tensions between Japan and China. The nations are at...
View ArticleObama Walks Tightrope Between Asian Allies
President Barack Obama continues his week-long tour through Asia. Yesterday, the president reaffirmed America's commitment to Japanese security—he explicitly said that the United States was obligated...
View ArticleAre New Russian Sanctions a Lost Cause?
There's another round of confrontation between the West and Russia over territory of Ukraine.After a week-old diplomatic initiative to deescalate the crises between the two nations failed, President...
View ArticleAmid Votes, Violence Marks Iraqi Election
After nearly nine years of war, American troops left Iraq at the end of 2011. Today, Iraqis will vote in the country's first national elections since that withdrawal—the nation's 22 million registered...
View ArticleSchoolgirl Kidnappings Spark Distrust in Nigerian Government
Nigerians are taking a stand against terrorism–hundreds of citizens came together in protest and marched on the capital of Abuja on Wednesday.They took to the streets to demand the safe release of...
View ArticleViolence Grips Ukraine's Third Largest City
Odessa, Ukraine's third-largest city, sits along the southwestern coast of the country abutting the Black Sea. Though previously removed from the chaos in Eastern Ukraine, Odessa was besieged with...
View ArticleThe Booming Business of Helping the Blacklisted
As tensions in Ukraine continue to escalate, the White House says that U.S. sanctions have had a "significant impact" on the Russian economy. But the real effect on President Vladimir Putin's strategy...
View ArticleEastern Ukraine Votes, Pro-Russian Separatists Claim Victory
On Sunday, pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine proceeded with a referendum on the future of the region, as the European Union warned that the vote would have no democratic legitimacy. Even...
View ArticleReport: Nigerian Officials Ignored Warnings of Kidnappings
In Nigeria, more than 200 schoolgirls remain missing, and a new video released by Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims to show about 100 of the girls who were kidnapped. Abubakar Shekau, the...
View ArticleIs Vietnam Becoming the Ukraine of the Pacific?
Last week, a giant Chinese oil rig was moving through the South China Sea and many believed it was on its way to an unknown destination to begin drilling for oil. But suddenly the vessel stopped and...
View ArticlePutin is Mentally Ill: Ukrainian Ambassador on Russia's Sick Leader
Takeaway Host John Hockenberry spoke with Yuriy Sergeyev, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, at the Core Club in New York City yesterday evening. Ambassador Sergeyev was confident in his...
View ArticleWho Are the Taliban Fighters Released from Guantánamo Bay?
President Obama authorized the release of five Guantánamo Bay detainees over the weekend in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier and prisoner of war held in eastern Afghanistan for...
View ArticleChaos, Violence Erupts in Pakistan
Pakistan is on the edge as chronic chaos, violence, and unrest erupts in the nation's largest city: Karachi. The Pakistani version of the Taliban has managed to shut down the international airport...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Offshoot Captures Iraq's Second Largest City
On Tuesday, an Al-Qaeda splinter group in Iraq raised their black flags above buildings across the city of Mosul as forces seized control of the nation's second largest city. The Iraqi military was...
View ArticleShould the U.S. Look to Iran for Help with Iraq?
My enemy's enemy is my friend? It's a line that's pervaded discussions this week about the possibility that the United States and Iran teaming up to address a rapidly destabilizing Iraq.In an interview...
View ArticleKerry, Iraq and The Path to Peace
As Iraq spirals deeper and deeper into chaos, tensions remain high between Ukraine and Russia, and territorial disputes in the South China Sea are mounting.According to the latest New York Times/CBS...
View ArticleU.S. Foreign-Born Population at All-Time High
Every year on the Fourth of July, at some point between the cookouts and the fireworks, thousands of foreign-born residents across the United States become citizens through annual naturalization...
View ArticleKissinger Talks ISIS, Confronts His History in Chile, Cambodia
*Editor’s Note: The text of this story is a condensed version of this interview. Press the play button above to hear the full interview, or click here for a transcript. Over the last century, America's...
View ArticleParis Attacks Create Problems for Hillary Clinton
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.The Paris attacks have brought up many questions for Europe and the international community, and the renewed fight against terrorism has the...
View ArticleCrisis in Syria
Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at NYU and Princeton and contributing editor to the Nation and author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War and...
View ArticleHistory of Intervention
Gary Bass, politics and international affairs professor at Princeton University and author of the new book The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, discusses this history and the...
View ArticleRisks in 2014
Over the weekend business magnate George Soros expressed worries that years of GDP shrinkage in China could lead to a full-fledged economic slowdown in 2014 that could have major effects on global...
View ArticleThe Man Behind Jon Stewart's "Rosewater"
In 2009, Iranian-born Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari did an interview with Jason Jones of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Iranian officials took the satirical piece seriously and arrested Bahari as...
View ArticleThe Shell Companies that Fund The World’s Tax Evaders, Money Launders, and...
Ken Silverstein investigated the law firm Mossack Fonseca, one of the largest creators of shell companies in the world, and the ways nefarious entities use shell companies to fund their enterprises for...
View ArticleTrump on the International Stage
Yesterday on "Fox News Sunday," Reince Priebus, President-elect Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, said that Trump "accepts the fact that this particular case was entities in Russia," regarding...
View ArticleThe smuggler
In 2015, French radio reporter Raphael Krafft was covering the refugee crisis. On the border with Italy, he met desperate families turned away by his country. Then one family asked Krafft for his...
View ArticleA New Strategy in Afghanistan
Paul McLeary, senior reporter for Foreign Policy covering national security, and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, staff writer for The Washington Post and a former Marine infantryman, discuss President Trump’s...
View ArticleThe Latest Push to Repeal Obamacare; Trump's First U.N. Speech; Co-Sleeping...
Coming up on today's show:Republicans need just a few more votes to pass the latest Obamacare repeal bill. Mary Agnes Carey, partnerships editor and senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News, explains...
View ArticleTrump's Speech at the UN was "America First on Steroids"
Robin Wright, foreign affairs analyst and writer for The New Yorker, discusses Trump's first meeting at the U.N. General Assembly and why for a body more accustomed to diplomatic speak, "Trump’s...
View ArticleA Revealing Year
Reveal has had a busy year – our team has chased stories from Oklahoma to Bermuda. We exposed a rehab program that provides labor at a chicken processing plant that’s been called a slave camp and...
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