21st Century Power
Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor and former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the author of The Future of Power, explains why he believes that technology and...
View Article'Aerotropolis': The City of the Future?
In the 2009 movie "Up in the Air" Ryan Bingham, played by George Clooney, tells viewers that "all the things you probably hate about traveling are warm reminders that I am home." Bingham and his...
View ArticleThe Medium is the Massage: Celebrating Marshall McLuhan's Legacy
Long before Facebook friends, RSS feeds and online shopping became part of everyday lingo, the Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan studied the development of mass communication and the effects it...
View Article'That Used to Be Us': Staging America's Comeback
Tonight, President Obama will unveil his plan for creating more jobs in America. Obama returned from summer vacation to the dismal news that the country gained no new jobs in August. Unemployment...
View ArticleThe New India
Ever wonder what it's like to work at a call center in Delhi? Hear Siddhartha Deb, creative writing teacher at the New School and journalist, who went undercover at just such a place, discuss his study...
View ArticleGlobalization's Effect on NY and NYC
President of the SUNY Levin Institute Garrick Utley examines the impact of globalization on New York and New York City.
View ArticleControversy Over Northwest Coal
The Northwest has long been a major source of exports. Timber and paper once dominated the Northwest market; these days, it's all about coal. Demand for coal has dropped in the United States, but the...
View Article“Bitter Seeds”
Director Micha X. Peled, discusses his documentary “Bitter Seeds,” about an epidemic of farmer suicides in India. In 2004 an American company introduced its genetically modified seeds to the Indian...
View ArticleAl Gore Looks Toward the Future
Former vice president Al Gore discusses what will drive global change in the decades to come and looks at how globalization is transforming economies, politics, agriculture, technology, and the...
View ArticleThe World's a Stage
Benjamin Walker and Ciaran Hinds talk about the new Broadway revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Music executive Tommy Mottola tells how he became the hitmaking producer of Gloria Estephan, Mariah...
View ArticlePower: Not What It Used to Be
Moisés Naím, senior associate in the International Economics program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, El Pais columnists and author of The End of Power: From Boardrooms to...
View ArticleNew York Will Be Top Competitive City in the World in 2025, Report Says
New York will be the most competitive city in the world in 2025 according to a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit that was sponsored by Citigroup.The report found that New York's...
View ArticleNew York Is World's Most Competitive City: Report
New York is the most competitive city in the world, according to a new index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit.The EIU, a business within The Economist Group, defined "competitiveness"...
View ArticlePlease Explain: Shipping Containers and How Cargo Moves around the World
Container shipping began 50 years ago and developed into a huge industry that has made the boom in global trade possible. Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World...
View ArticleWhat Will The World Look Like In 2030?
Mathew Burrows, director of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, was the principal author of the last three National Intelligence Council Global Trends reports. In his new book, The...
View ArticleBooks That Changed My Mind: Globalism
As patrons nominate their libraries for the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards, The Brian Lehrer Show talks to writers about "Books That Changed My Mind." Today, Thomas Friedman, columnist for The New...
View ArticleAt New Year’s Tables Across China, An Unlikely Slice of Americana Joins the...
Dumplings, red packets of money, long noodles symbolizing long life, fireworks at midnight—all of these are traditional Chinese trappings of Asian Lunar New Year celebrations happening around the...
View ArticleFashion, Fast and Slow
Whether or not you're a person who cares about fashion, how and where our clothes are made has environment, social, and economic consequences. The global garment industry is a trillion dollar business,...
View ArticleTemporary And Part-Time: The Rise Of A New Precarious Workforce
According to one estimate, roughly a third of America's workers are employed by the on-demand economy. While that figure does include Uber drivers, i's certainly not limited to participants of the...
View ArticleCan We Predict the Next Pandemic?
How have climate change and globalization affected the spread of disease? Columbia University virologist and professor of epidemiology Dr. Stephen Morse joins us to discuss the Zika virus and global...
View ArticleIranian Identity Post-Revolution, Inside the Hidden Network of Immigrant-Only...
Laura Secor reveals how artists, writer, activists and scholars have worked to preserve Persian culture and identity following the 1979 Revolution. Director Greg MacGillivray and mountain climber...
View ArticleLives Collide During the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
Sunil Yapa discusses his debut novel Your Heart is the Muscle the Size of a Fist, which is set in Seattle during the 1999 WTO anti-globalization protests and follows a young man who becomes entangled...
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Why trade and globalization concerns are resonating with voters at home
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: As the candidates campaign in Pennsylvania, Indiana and elsewhere, one of the issues resonating strongly this year is trade, and whether it’s helping...
View ArticleChef Tom Colicchio's Crusade to End Food Waste, the Hidden Financial...
Steve Hilton, former advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, talks about his book More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First. The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit production of...
View ArticleHave Our Lives Become Too Industrialized?
Steve Hilton, a visiting professor at Stanford University and former advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, argues that our lives, from government and healthcare, to the ways we live and eat,...
View ArticleWhy Borders Are Becoming Irrelevant
What would a world without national borders look like? There's a good chance it'd look very similar to the one we have today. Parag Khanna is a global strategist who believes borders are becoming...
View ArticleArtist Molly Crabapple On Why Borders Are Unnecessary
Artist and activist Molly Crabapple believes borders are soon becoming a thing of the past.
View ArticleThe Case For Open Borders
There's a concept that's gaining ground among some economists and the idea's simple -- let anyone who isn't a criminal live and work in any other country. Economist Bryan Caplan and producer Rehman...
View ArticleA Field Guide to Understanding Global Economic and Social Change
Ruchir Sharma, head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, talks about his “10 rules” that determine a country’s economic stability from his book The...
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Will other countries follow Brexit example and shun globalization?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now a look at the potential economic ramifications of Brexit.Many financial markets took an outright beating during a global sell-off today. The Euro...
View ArticleWhy Some Economies Succeed and Others Fail
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Donald Trump has made anxiety about America's place in the world the center point of his campaign. "America has lost nearly one third of its...
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Column: The bell of globalization cannot be un-rung
A British flag lies on a London street on June 24 after Britain voted to leave the European Union. Photo by Reinhard Krause/ReutersA few weeks ago, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the...
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Column: How to help workers laid low by trade — and why we haven’t
The Bollman Factory in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. Photo by Christopher Booker/PBS NewsHourEditor’s Note: Edward Alden, former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, is a senior fellow at the...
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Column: Why there’s a backlash against globalization and what needs to change
From the Brexit, to the recent U.S. election of Donald Trump, voters across the world are rejecting candidates and policies in support of globalization. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty...
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Tony Blair on why he’s advocating for a global policy ‘center ground’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: This year has marked a rise in partisan political divides the world over. But former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is on a mission to encourage...
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Tony Blair on Trump: ‘Let’s wait and see’ what happens
File photo of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair by Kevin Coombs/ReutersWhen it comes to U.S. foreign policy under President-elect Donald Trump, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is taking...
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Depicting colonialism and globalization through art ‘full of contradiction’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now: a profile of an artist who has lived on three continents and explores history and identity in today’s global culture.Jeffrey Brown has our...
View ArticleWorld Order 2.0
Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, discusses why the world needs to rethink many of...
View ArticleGeneral Michael Hayden on Responding to Terrorism in the Modern Age
Michael Hayden, retired United States Air Force four-star general and former director of the National Security Agency, principal deputy director of National Intelligence and director of the Central...
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Global finance leaders grapple with globalization fears
The International Monetary Fund logo is seen during the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, D.C., on April 21, 2017. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ReutersWASHINGTON — Global finance leaders on...
View ArticleJoseph Conrad As A Prophet Of Globalization
Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. Jasanoff examines the forces that shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the 20th century including...
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Nathalie Joachim — Song of Haiti’s Women
Flutist and vocalist Nathalie Joachim is a magnetic voice of one of the unexpected aspects of our globalized world — new generations reclaiming and falling in love anew with the places their parents...
View ArticleA Reporter's Housing Crisis, Aparna Nancherla on Netflix, Deporting a U.S....
Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember discusses his recent essay, “My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis.” Comedian, actor and Twitter-sensation Aparna Nancherla talks about her new...
View ArticleGlobalizing the Fight for a Living Wage
Annelise Orleck, professor of history at Dartmouth, discusses her new book "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages. She details how low-wage workers are rising up...
View ArticlePlease Explain: Why Pollen Makes Me Sneeze
‘Tis the season for sniffles. Millions of Americans suffer from allergies, seasonal and otherwise. For this week’s "Please Explain," Dr. Clifford Bassett, the founder and medical director of Allergy...
View ArticleIntelligence Squared US- Has Globalization Undermined America's Working Class?
Globalization ushered in an era of free trade, fluid borders, and unparalleled corporate profits. For its proponents, the global integration of states and their economies was a political and economic...
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[Unedited] Nathalie Joachim with Krista Tippett
Flutist and vocalist Nathalie Joachim is a magnetic voice of one of the unexpected aspects of our globalized world — new generations reclaiming and falling in love anew with the places their parents...
View ArticleWhy Globalism Matters
Yesterday, France began to reopen non-essential businesses after 8 weeks of lockdown due to the pandemic. Today, Russia announced residents will head back to work, despite a record high of COVID-19...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria’s Guide to a Post-Pandemic Age
Some scientists and environmentalists believe that the novel coronavirus is nature’s warning to us about the unsustainable ways we have been living. The rate of human development and the encroachment...
View ArticleAnand Giridharadas on India Calling
Anand Giridharadas discusses what it was like to return to the land of his ancestors amid an unlikely economic boom. In India Calling: An intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, Giridharadas profiles...
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