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The World Next Week: Previewing Obama’s State of the Union Address

<p>U.S. president Barack Obama delivers his 2013 State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Courtesy Reuters)</p>
U.S. president Barack Obama delivers his 2013 State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Courtesy Reuters)

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The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/editorial/2014/20140123_T…]

The highlights:

For more on the topics we discussed in the podcast check out:

State of the Union: The White House details ways to interact with the State of the Union online and  provides a transcript of Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address. National Journal writes that Obama’s speech is an opportunity for the White House to unify a divided Democratic Party. The Wall Street Journal writes that the Obama administration hopes the speech will be a fresh start.  The New Yorker profiles Barack Obama. Politico lists ten Republicans who could give the GOP response.  NBC News reports that Senator Mike Lee will give the Tea Party response to Obama’s speech.  Wonkblog writes that Obama wants to make inequality the defining issue of 2014. The Los Angeles Times reports that Obama’s approval ratings remain low despite an improving economy. Politico writes about the Obama administration’s approach to immigration reform. The Fix writes that healthcare will be one of Obama’s main talking points. CFR.org asks what happened to the Asia pivot in 2013 and posts my interview with Bernard Gwertzman on the world outlook in 2014.  BBC News has background on the current Syria negotiations.   In the Boston Globe, Nicholas Burns details Obama’s 2014 foreign policy challenges.