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On the Big Picture podcast, Belabbes Benkredda explores the world’s most consequential questions – with some of the smartest people trying to answer them.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
The Big Picture uses patient interviews to connect global political arguments with institutions, technology, public health, and democratic practice.
The Big Picture is a News & Politics interview show about power, institutions, and global risk. In the sampled episodes, it moves from public disputes such as Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter into grand strategy, artificial intelligence policy, global health, and democratic…
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A careful look at Twitter's turmoil and the strain it puts on public trust.
This episode treats Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter as a stress test for the platform's claim to be a public square. The hosts move through the early turmoil and stay focused on the harder questions around verification, trust, publisher relationships, and what happens when the…
A practical conversation about democracy, participation, and the institutions citizens can still shape.
Alonso's conversation on The Big Picture treats democracy as a matter of institutions and participation, not abstraction. It follows her path from civil society activism into elected office, then back to anti-corruption work and the rule of law as everyday concerns.
A sober foreign-policy conversation that turns hindsight into a case for agency.
This conversation treats foreign policy as a lived argument, beginning with the World Fellows reunion and then following Emma Sky through the 1990s and the post-9/11 years, when Western confidence hardened into intervention, overreach, and moral strain.
A sober, grounded look at why AI governance lags the technology and the private sector driving it.
Kirsten Rulf brings direct experience from the German Chancellery and earlier work on autonomous driving, which gives the episode unusual institutional credibility when it turns to AI regulation, public power, and the distance between fast-moving technology and slower lawmaking.
A sober case for why Somalia's health capacity is a global issue.
The Big Picture uses Somalia to frame a wider point about how COVID-19 exposes shared vulnerability. Belabes Benkreda and global health policy expert Benjamin Mason Meyer move from strained health systems to the case for international cooperation, bringing in the World Health…
Willa Paskin traces one cultural mystery per episode, from web soap operas to prune marketing.
A Radiotopia feed built around the scripted drama Red for Revolution plus curated NPR crossover episodes.
San Quentin's incarcerated and formerly incarcerated producers tell first-person stories from inside prison.
Spanish-language narrative journalism from across Latin America and Latino life.
PJ Vogt investigates one question a week, from GLP-1 drugs to driverless-car policy.
Recorded at Yale's first Public Sphere Salon, this conversation between Belabes Benkreder and Raheel Khurshid — a former Twitter employee of nearly five years — dissects the first two weeks of Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter.
Laura Alonso, former head of Argentina's anti-corruption office and a 2021 Yale World Fellow, joins host Belabes Benkreder to examine why democracy is in global decline and what can be done about it.
Emma Sky, director of Yale's World Fellows Program, joins host Belabes Benkreder to trace how the post-Cold War liberal order unraveled from the 1990s through today.
Kirsten Rulf, former digital policy lead at Angela Merkel's Federal Chancellery, joins host Bela Bez-Benkreder at Yale to discuss AI's geopolitical stakes.
Somalia has 19 ICU beds for 15 million people — and COVID-19 has arrived.