Ben and Tommy talk about the fallout after Spain’s head soccer official kissed star player Jennifer Hermoso, BRICS announcing the addition of six countries, Donald Trump’s musings on the Panama Canal, and a report that the US was aware of Saudi Arabia’s torture and killing of African migrants. They also discuss France’s ban on students wearing the Abaya in schools, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s memoir and defense of Russia, Zimbabwe’s disputed election, far right Israeli politician Ben-Gvir’s racist statement, and India’s lunar landing. Then Ben is joined by Joshua Yaffa, contributing writer for The New Yorker, to discuss his profile of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and what his rise and fall tell us about Russia.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken
Putin invades (but not where you thought)
Trump endorses a dictator
China 101
The Trump-Bibi Netanyahu bromance is dead
Biden’s Olympic Boycott
Rihanna replaces the Queen
What happened to Peng Shuai?
The case for invading Australia
Rhodes goes to Glasgow
The world gathers to fight climate change
Cocaine Hippos
We booked a Nobel Prize winner
Ted Lasso with a bone saw
Decoding the Pandora Papers
Jared Kushner is “Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit”
France is not amused
Who hid the nukes from Trump?
20 years after 9/11
What comes next for Afghanistan
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