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The Lede

New Lines Magazine

This is The Lede, the New Lines Magazine podcast. Each week, we delve into the biggest ideas, events and personalities from around the world. For more stories from New Lines, visit our website, newlinesmag.com

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284 episodes

  1. Longing and Belonging in the Arab 21st Century 46:18
  2. The AI Accusations Shaking the Literary World 46:33
  3. A Death That Divided America 39:41
  4. How 1980s Lebanon Made Today’s Middle East 45:30
  5. The Forgotten Moment That Decided Palestine’s Fate 55:19
  6. Why Ethiopia Is at War Once Again 30:08
  7. How the Failed Revolutions of the 1970s Remade Our World 50:53
  8. Why Every Conflict Is Also a Love Story 39:47
  9. How 9/11 Remade America 1:02:47
  10. Why We’re in a New Age of Conquest 42:28
  11. Listen Again: How Authoritarianism Came to One Istanbul Street 45:16
  12. Listen Again: How Defiance Began at Home in Assad’s Syria 1:11:29
  13. The Wars We’ve Learned To Live With 46:51
  14. How Crime Built the Modern World 50:30
  15. Why Israel Keeps Voting and Nothing Changes 49:05
  16. How Power Corrupts Those Who Seek It 41:38
  17. The Arguments America Has Never Settled 43:27
  18. Soccer, Power and the Politics of America’s World Cup 29:18
  19. How a New Pandemic Exposes the Geopolitics of Disease 39:00
  20. The Winners and Losers of the Iran Peace Deal 40:44
  21. How Europe’s Hinterlands Became Its Front Line 45:16
  22. How Revolutionary Iran Became a Mafia State 47:03
  23. How Authoritarianism Came to One Istanbul Street 46:03
  24. The War Crime No One Wants To Name 35:34
  25. When Is a Revolution Actually Over? 50:07
  26. How Elon Musk Fuses Rockets and Tech To Shape Modern Society 45:35
  27. How a Life in Exile Reshapes the Generations That Follow 37:17
  28. Is the Special Relationship Really Special Anymore? 24:20
  29. The Ethics of Bearing Witness 1:01:04
  30. Why Every Lebanese Crisis Feels Worse Than the Last 39:07
  31. How the World Order We Know Came Into Being – and Why It’s Breaking 48:02
  32. How the War in Iran Reached South Asia’s Kitchens 35:51
  33. Why Decades of Conflict From Syria to Iran Continue To Be Misunderstood 50:38
  34. What the Epstein Files Reveal About How Elites Operate 54:50
  35. How the Iran War Came to the Gulf 1:03:34
  36. Death of the Ayatollah, and War Comes to Iran 51:34
  37. Trump Comes to Africa 47:09
  38. The Invisible Lines That Divided South Asia 46:27
  39. How Defiance Began at Home in Assad’s Syria 1:11:50
  40. What’s Behind Iran’s Protests 40:31
  41. 1,000 Days of War in Sudan 33:45
  42. Inside the System That Built the Modern World 40:51
  43. Inside the Rise of France’s Far Right 48:44
  44. Queens, Cities and States in the Making of Africa 42:28
  45. Listen Again: How America’s Margins Became the Mainstream 45:18
  46. From Emotional Video Games to Early Music Chanting: The Christmas Episode 53:25
  47. Making the Case for American Power 1:00:38
  48. How Power Hides Itself 53:29
  49. Lifting the Lid on the Criminal Underworld 1:06:41
  50. Why the Internet Got Bad, and How To Fix It 59:38