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The Rocky Path Toward Kurdish Independence Jul 05, 2017

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David Kenner is joined by Campbell MacDiarmid and Douglas Ollivant to discuss Campbell's recent interview with Kurdistan's President Masoud Barzani about the Sept 25, 2017 referendum on independence.

How to Tell a Story of Kidnapping and Climate Change in Somalia Jun 19, 2017

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Laura Heaton and Nichole Sobecki detail their reporting on Dr. Murray Watson and the impact his once thought-to-be lost work could have on the country decades later.

How to Convince People — and the U.S. President — to Care About Climate Change? Jun 08, 2017

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Set discussions of science aside and talk about how to save the polar bears.

Why Do Internationally Backed Peace Processes Fail? Oct 13, 2016

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FP staffers talk about their reporting on the ground in South Sudan and Colombia and how war crimes, revolution, women, and Washington all played a role in those countries’ faltering peace processes.

300,000 Chinese Students Attend U.S. Colleges. What Will They Learn About American Life? Oct 07, 2016

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Editors David Wertime and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian talk to three young Chinese about how studying stateside changed their views of the United States — and their home.

The Final Front in the Afghan War Sep 22, 2016

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FP’s Dan De Luce talks to Sune Rasmussen and Andrew Quilty about reporting from Helmand Province, where the fighting has worsened and the Taliban is gaining ground.

An Abandoned Daughter Returns to China Apr 28, 2016

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Editors Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and David Wertime talk to Jenna Cook about how the quest to find her birth mother captivated China — and why she finally decided to write her side of the story for FP.

The Power of Narrative Comics Jan 29, 2016

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FP’s Mindy Kay Bricker talks to writer Alia Malek and alternative cartoonist Josh Neufeld about telling the story of the Syrian refugee crisis through a comic.

Covering Burma’s Historic Election Nov 06, 2015

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FP's Rebecca Frankel and Ilya Lozovsky talk to Christian Caryl about campaign rallies, voters who are betting on hope and change, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz Oct 21, 2015

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FP's Rebecca Frankel and Dan De Luce talk to photojournalist Andrew Quilty about what it was like covering the aftermath of the tragic U.S. airstrike on the ground in Afghanistan.

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