Exploring the 2024 elections worldwide with a focus on peace as a critical issue and the emergence of feminist foreign policy in Europe and Latin America, challenging the traditional 'boys club' dynamics in war and peace negotiations. The chapter also teases the new season of 'Things that Go Boom' and discusses Naples moving past its mafia image and Australia's culinary contributions.
All over the world, young men are identifying more with the political right, even as women drift more to the left. What is behind the gulf, and how to close it? The seeming drop in crime in Naples is not because the notorious mafia activity has disappeared—it has evolved (10:11). And exploring the history and the present of the flat white (17:08).
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