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.

The Rocky Path Toward Kurdish Independence

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 Tell a Story of Kidnapping and Climate Change in Somalia

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

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

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.

Why Do Internationally Backed Peace Processes Fail?

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.

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

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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.

The Final Front in the Afghan War

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.

An Abandoned Daughter Returns to China

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.

The Power of Narrative Comics

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.

Covering Burma’s Historic Election

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.

Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz

BLUF: NOT worth the time to listen to these, journalists talking about the writing of some of their stories with jumbled timelines and jumping around and not sticking to what is written in the podcast details.
I enjoy a story well told with lots of background and extra info. But these podcasts are lots of rambling and storytellers patting themselves on the back for a job well done. What that job is and its overall purpose, you decipher for yourself and the storyteller will tell you they were right and did great. 
The titles and summary consist of very little of the actual time of the podcast. The kidnapping one has almost no details of the event and with no one that has any first hand knowledge of the event and its post-kidnap events. 
Journalists patting themselves on the back for “impactful” stories does not make for a good story because the reason for doing so and the exaggerated impact is not told from those actually impacted from the work.

Lots of Rambling

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