This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates.

This week’s Munk Members podcast analyses two stories in the news. First, something feels different about the latest school shooting incident in America. The scale of horror and the event following so closely on the racially motivated killings in a Buffalo supermarket suggest a bigger set of problems are besetting the U.S. beyond the urgent need for gun control. What are these issues? How could they be addressed? Janice and Rudyard discuss. The show wraps up with a recap of week of events in the Russia-Ukraine War and the fierce debates at Davos over the morality of a negotiated settlement that could leave Putin in control of large swaths of Ukraine’s East and South.

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