Mar 23, 2023
Argentina, 1970s. The president catches a cold and dies. Who succeeds him? His VP, also his fifth-grade educated wife, selected expressly because she posed no threat to the president’s power. So then what? The word “disappeared” goes from being a verb form to a noun. Thousands of people become the...
Mar 16, 2023
For Women's History Month, Ambassador Pru Bushnell returns with leadership tips for women. A lot of power is theater, and we can use those trappings of power to lead with authority. One, keep the alphas from using all the air time. Two, don't throw a telephone across the room (leave that to Henry Kissinger); instead,...
Mar 9, 2023
Pete and John Feeley follow on last week's interview with Felix Maradiaga, freed Nicaraguan political prisoner. Pete and John learn the diplomatic and human story behind the story with Patrick Ventrell, one of our diplomats overseeing the evacuation of Felix and so many others freed along with him on the same day....
Mar 2, 2023
The greatest threat to the Ortega regime in Nicaragua? Ideas. And that’s how Félix Maradiaga, Nicaraguan political activist, ended up in solitary confinement, in darkness, for months on end, with little food, little water and suffering interrogations without end. And his dearest wish, now, safe in the US? To be...
Feb 24, 2023
Who can become a sex or labor trafficking victim? Anyone. We all need food and shelter; we all need to provide for our children, just to name a few. Traffickers are expert at exploiting our needs. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, Director of the ASU Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research, helps us understand in depth...