Boston Calling Podcast
How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.
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The innovation edition
Sat 23 Nov 2019
Saving our planet at an affordable cost with the latest innovations.
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It鈥檚 automatic
Sat 9 Nov 2019
Robots are doing jobs humans used to do. Workers in many sectors are worried.
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Power and diplomacy
Sat 2 Nov 2019
Are students of diplomacy reconsidering their choice and impeachment鈥檚 teachable moment
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Who's to judge?
Sat 26 Oct 2019
The immigration status of thousands of Liberians in the US hangs on a court decision
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Covert affairs
Sat 12 Oct 2019
An FBI informant pressured to spy on New York mosques seeks a way out
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Who's listening?
Sat 5 Oct 2019
鈥業 would like you to do us a favour鈥�: The phone call that ignited a political storm
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The evangelical edition
Sat 28 Sep 2019
Megachurches, hip hop, and podcasts: American evangelical Christians are 鈥榥ot a monolith鈥�
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The Mississippi: Pushed to the brink
Sat 21 Sep 2019
With globalization and climate change, life on the Mississippi river is under threat
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Into the thaw (Part two)
Sat 14 Sep 2019
If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever.
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Into the thaw (Part one)
Sat 7 Sep 2019
Is Thwaites Glacier doomed? Scientists race against time to find out.
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400 years
Sat 31 Aug 2019
A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle鈥檚 history 鈥� and her own
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The long wait
Sat 17 Aug 2019
'Peace is the highest desire鈥� says Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan鈥檚 ambassador to the US
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Scoring points
Sat 10 Aug 2019
The US-China trade dispute may be entering a dangerous new phase: currency warfare
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Means of destruction
Sat 3 Aug 2019
"People have somehow forgotten what happens when a nuclear weapon hits"
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Breaking with tradition
Sat 27 Jul 2019
Saudi Arabia鈥檚 human rights record is causing some Muslims to rethink making the hajj
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Let鈥檚 talk
Sat 20 Jul 2019
For many immigrant students, fear of deportation and family separation is a daily reality
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Agree to Disagree
Sat 13 Jul 2019
Immigrants in the US are very anxious about being asked if they鈥檙e citizens or not.
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State of anxiety
Sat 6 Jul 2019
A post-9/11 law could allow President Trump to bypass Congress to wage war with Iran
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Waste land
Sat 22 Jun 2019
America's 'recycled' plastic is creating illegal wastelands in South East Asia
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Oath of allegiance
Sat 1 Jun 2019
Controversy over US citizenship, privacy, and next year's census. Who will be counted?
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Travel plans
Sat 25 May 2019
Immigrants and refugees make ideal guides for a museum in Philadelphia.
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Be you for you
Sat 11 May 2019
A transgender athlete supports the IAAF鈥檚 controversial definition of women.
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