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Friday, March 30

Top United Nations official 'forced himself on me,' employee says
By Mick Krever, CNN
A United Nations employee who says she was sexually assaulted by a top UN official has spoken publicly for the first time, alleging she was offered a promotion if she accepted an apology from the man and claiming that the organization failed to take her complaint seriously.
Asking more of men in the #MeToo era

Wednesday, March 28

Former Security Adviser sizes up Trump's team
Stephen Hadley was Bush's National Security Adviser. Now his successor, John Bolton, calls a first strike on N. Korea 'perfectly legitimate.'
Corruption in Russia is 'agonizing," says ex-MP

Tuesday, March 27

"Angels in America" soars again on Broadway
Playwright Tony Kushner and star Andrew Garfield on "Angels in America": why the play that defined the Reagan years still resonates in the age of Trump.

Monday, March 26

A hardening of U.S. foreign policy?
Former deputy national security adviser James Jeffrey and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd discuss John Bolton and expelling Russian diplomats.
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower on Bolton super PAC

Friday, March 23

Treating hatred as a public health issue
Christiane Amanpour speaks to Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose daughters were killed in a shelling attack in Gaza, about recognizing hatred as a public health issue.
A dad's mission to save his girls from ISIS

Thursday, March 22

The price of failure in North Korea talks
Former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Christopher Hill explains the dangers and opportunities if President Trump and Kim Jong Un finally meet.

Wednesday, March 21

Cate Blanchett on Rohingya refugees, #TimesUp
In her first interview after visiting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett says she's never witnessed such "level of terror."
New Orleans Mayor on removing Confederate monuments

Tuesday, March 20

Zuckerberg's mentor: Crisis could destroy Facebook
Facebook is confronting a crisis of public trust "that is going to destroy the company," says Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor, the venture capitalist Roger McNamee.
Author: Syrian rebels feel 'abandoned'

Monday, March 19

Understanding Putin's fourth-term victory
Amanpour speaks with Russian analyst Andrey Kortunov speaks and former UK Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rikfind about Putin's presidential victory amid rising tensions with the West.
One man's mission to revive Yemeni coffee

Friday, March 16

Sons of Iranian-Canadian: We want 'the truth'
Ramin and Mehran Seyed-Emami tell Christiane Amanpour that they are fighting to get their mother out and learn what happened to their father in Tehran's Evin prison.
Connecting through music with "The Band's Visit"

Thursday, March 15

The push to turn norms into laws
Preet Bharara and Christine Todd Whitman say Trump's norm-breaking behavior is dangerous, so they created a taskforce to see some if some norms should be laws.

Wednesday, March 14

Hayden defends Trump pick over torture ties
Michael Hayden, former CIA director, says that "we should not in any way blame the people," like Trump pick Gina Haspel, "who did what they were responsible to do" when it comes to so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques.
Sinn Féin leader: Brexit threatens Irish peace

Tuesday, March 13

Former ambassador: Russia must see costs
As the UK says a Russian-linked nerve agent was used to attack a former spy, former UK Ambassador Tony Brenton says the West must show that "there are costs to this sort of behavior."
Priest: The Church must confront homophobia

Monday, March 12

Fmr negotiator: Kim Jong Un is in driver seat
Fmr US nuclear negotiator Wendy Sherman says the greatest risk is Trump walking away from negotiations if he doesn't get every single thing that he wants
London Mayor: 'Reluctant participant' in Trump feuds

Friday, March 9

Hedy Lamarr: 1940s 'bombshell' and inventor
"It didn't seem possible that our whole world was invented by people who look like Thomas Edison," says Alexandra Dean, director of "Bombshell: the Hedy Lamarr Story."
Annie Lennox on her music, advocacy and Oxfam

Thursday, March 8

Women's Day through Afghan and Egyptian eyes
"Look patriarchy in the eye and say, 'We will dismantle you.'" Amanpour speaks with author Mona Eltahawy and Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi on International Women's Day.
Case reveals mistrust of rape victims in U.S.

Wednesday, March 7

Sen.: Babies should be allowed on Senate floor
Tammy Duckworth, soon to be the first sitting senator to give birth, says the Senate should change its rules to allow children under 1 on the Senate floor.

Tuesday, March 6

Fmr CIA analyst: Too soon for Korean champagne
Jung Pak says that while it's too soon to celebrate the outcome of the meeting in Pyonyang, it's "a big change in terms of what Kim Jong-un is willing to offer."
Jorge Ramos on immigrant life under Trump

Monday, March 5

Larry Summers: Trump's tariffs 'crazy, dumb'
Trump's tariff plan is "the most irrational economic policy that any President has ever introduced in the last half century," says the former U.S. Treasury Secretary.
Making sense of Xi's power grab in China

Friday, March 2

'Veep' creator: Truth now too strange for fiction
Armando Iannucci says that no fictional take could be as "absurd," as "terrifying," or as "gobsmackingly entertaining, for want of a better word," as reality.
From Mormon survivalist to Cambridge Ph.D.

Thursday, March 1

Afghan Pres. says 'every war' must end politically
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani tells Christiane Amanpour he is offering a "comprehensive peace deal" to the Taliban, "so that it could not be rejected."
Avraham Burg: Israel is not a full democracy

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