Getting Schooled by Poland and Russia

Amanda Ripley, Joshua Tucker, and Steve LeVine on Global Education and U.S.-Russia Relations

Host Anne-Marie Slaughter is joined by Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, to talk about why American students would choose to study in Poland, Finland, and South Korea—and why those countries’ education systems top ours. Slaughter also chats with New York University political scientist Joshua Tucker and journalist Steve LeVine about how Russia’s new proposal to put Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile under international control could impact U.S.-Russia relations and the global energy market.

A New America Should Not Just Be About Winning

Competition Has Its Place. But There’s Also Room For Caring.

When I left the State Department almost three years ago, I was deeply grateful to be able to return to a tenured position at an idyllic university. I imagined possibly …

America’s Knottiest Quests

Talking Syria and a Political Center With General Wesley Clark, Public Intellectual Michael Lind, and Journalist Peter Beinart

Host Anne-Marie Slaughter is joined by General Wesley Clark, who oversaw the Kosovo campaign in the late ’90s, and shares his thoughts on what the Balkans can teach us about …