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July 2, 2020

United States
Turbulent U.S. Independence Day, Dramatic Arctic Heatwave, and More

Americans celebrate Independence Day amid a worrisome surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, a dramatic heatwave continues in the Arctic, and Hong Kong reacts to China’s sweeping national securi…

Podcast People wearing masks walk past an American flag painted on a building during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ocean Beach, California, U.S.
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Alice C. Hill The World Next Week

March 25, 2021

Climate Change
Extreme Weather Worsens, Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day, and More

Extreme weather events ramp up in Australia and the United States; Myanmar’s military junta marks Armed Forces Day; and leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay convene for a virtual tra…

Podcast A partially submerged car is seen abandoned in floodwaters in the suburb of Windsor as the state of New South Wales experiences widespread flooding and severe weather, in Sydney, Australia, March 22, 2021.
Podcast by James M. Lindsay The World Next Week

May 30, 2019

France
The Anniversaries of D-Day and the Tiananmen Square Protests, and More

President Donald J. Trump commemorates D-Day with a trip to Normandy, and the world remembers the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

Podcast A Beijing man stands in front of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace.
Podcast by Robert McMahon and Stewart M. Patrick The World Next Week

April 15, 2021

Afghanistan War
U.S. Drawdown in Afghanistan, Biden’s Earth Day Summit, and More

The United States sets in motion a complete military withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of world leaders are invited to a U.S.-led climate summit, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets wi…

Podcast U.S. soldiers from D Troop of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment walk on a hill after finishing with a training exercise near forward operating base Gamberi in the Laghman province of Afghanistan December 30, 2014.
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon The World Next Week

October 8, 2020

Taiwan
Taiwan’s National Day, Seventy-Five Years of North Korea’s Workers’ Party, and More

Taiwan celebrates National Day, North Korea marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party with a military parade, and the United Kingdom and European Union face another cr…

Podcast North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to people attending a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, A
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon The World Next Week