Why It Matters

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Each episode of Why It Matters breaks down an issue that is shaping our world’s future. Join host Gabrielle Sierra as she speaks with the leaders and thinkers who are facing these questions head on. Fueled by the minds at the Council on Foreign Relations, Why It Matters brings some of the world’s most compelling stories home to you.

Recent Episodes
  • Why It Matters Live!: Food Diplomacy
    May 21, 2025 – 39:24
  • Trade Agreements: Deal or No Deal
    May 21, 2025 – 29:37
  • Tariff Turmoil, Part 2: Steel and Dog Gelato
    Apr 30, 2025 – 32:48
  • Tariff Turmoil, Part 1: How Tariffs Are Affecting Farmers
    Apr 16, 2025 – 29:18
  • The Washington Consensus Could Not Hold
    Apr 2, 2025 – 30:27
  • We’ve Been Looking At Trade All Wrong
    Mar 19, 2025 – 32:52
  • Why Trade Matters
    Mar 19, 2025 – 02:02
  • Why Climate Matters: Nuclear Energy
    Feb 20, 2025 – 37:48
  • New Podcast Spotlight: The Interconnect
    Feb 14, 2025 – 29:39
  • Why Climate Matters: Water Scarcity
    Feb 12, 2025 – 35:47
  • Why Climate Matters: The Arctic
    Feb 5, 2025 – 27:50
  • Why Climate Matters: Pricing Climate
    Jan 29, 2025 – 35:37
  • Why Climate Matters: Home Insurance
    Jan 23, 2025 – 39:21
  • Why Climate Matters
    Jan 23, 2025 – 00:52
  • The Dirty Energy Powering AI
    Dec 3, 2024 – 35:56
  • Why the World Next Week Matters
    Nov 14, 2024 – 37:12
  • The New Tech World Order
    Nov 13, 2024 – 35:49
  • A World Under the Influence
    Oct 21, 2024 – 38:36
  • Who’s Afraid of the National Debt?
    Oct 2, 2024 – 30:11
  • Why Is the World Obsessed With the U.S. Election? Ask Germany
    Sep 18, 2024 – 32:59
  • Can West Africa Curb Its Brain Drain?
    Jun 20, 2024 – 39:19
  • Global Abortion Access After Roe
    Jun 5, 2024 – 24:55
  • India, Modi, and Hindu Nationalism
    May 23, 2024 – 33:44
  • Publishing in a Polarized World
    May 10, 2024 – 29:51
  • Can Israel and Iran Step Back From the Brink? (Podcast Takeover)
    Apr 24, 2024 – 41:59
  • Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
    Apr 10, 2024 – 37:34
  • Local Leaders in the Global Economy
    Apr 2, 2024 – 22:14
  • UFOs: Close Encounters of the National Security Kind
    Mar 27, 2024 – 33:52
  • 2024: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
    Mar 13, 2024 – 32:15
  • The Year of AI and Elections
    Dec 20, 2023 – 35:38
  • Will India Take America’s Side Against China? (Podcast Takeover)
    Dec 6, 2023 – 42:54
  • Understanding the U.S. Role in the Israel-Hamas War
    Nov 22, 2023 – 29:50
  • A Turning Point for Global Trade
    Nov 8, 2023 – 40:12
  • America’s Fentanyl Epidemic: The China Connection
    Oct 25, 2023 – 32:06
  • The Case for Rebuilding Ukraine
    Oct 11, 2023 – 35:55
  • Could Climate Change Break Home Insurance?
    Sep 27, 2023 – 37:44
  • Who Runs the World?... Not Women
    Sep 13, 2023 – 36:10
  • Taiwan, China, and the Threat of War
    Jul 14, 2023 – 36:08
  • AI Meets World, Part Two
    Jun 21, 2023 – 27:56
  • AI Meets World, Part One
    Jun 8, 2023 – 33:43
  • Down and Dirty: The Global Fertilizer Dilemma
    May 25, 2023 – 33:22
  • A New Nuclear Age
    May 11, 2023 – 40:40
  • Army of Some: Recruiting Trouble for the All-Volunteer Force
    Apr 26, 2023 – 26:09
  • Silencing the Messenger: Global Threats to Press Freedom
    Apr 12, 2023 – 30:07
  • What’s Cracking in the Arctic
    Mar 29, 2023 – 26:42
  • 2023: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
    Mar 15, 2023 – 35:11
  • Another Year of Living Dangerously
    Dec 21, 2022 – 37:59
  • The Three Internets
    Dec 7, 2022 – 38:38
  • A Troubled Cup for the Beautiful Game
    Nov 23, 2022 – 37:01
  • Climate Adaptation: Rising Tides in Coastal Cities (Flashback Episode)
    Nov 10, 2022 – 38:09
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