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Brief: Israel kills family in Gaza, why did Houthis launch offensive?

This week: 347 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,369 Palestinians in Gaza. Yemen's Houthi movement gained significant ground. Israel continued to viol

Sep 13
5 min

Brief: Iran retaliates after US sinks ships, Israeli minister wants ethnic cleansing in Gaza

This week: 340 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,344 Palestinians in Gaza. Iran and the US continued strikes around the Strait of Hormuz. An Israeli mi

Sep 6
6 min

Brief: Israeli pogroms continue in West Bank, more children killed in Gaza

This week: 333 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,313 Palestinians in Gaza. The UN discussed the plan for Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. Israeli pogrom

Aug 30
6 min

Brief: No change in Gaza after Kushner meeting, will Israel escalate in Lebanon?

This week: 326 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,285 Palestinians in Gaza. A US envoy met with Hamas' leadership. Israeli settlers continue to terroriz

Aug 23
5 min

Brief: Settler siege of Palestinian home continues, Israel kills 11 in Lebanon

This week: 319 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,260 Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli settlers continued their siege of a Palestinian home in the occupied

Aug 16
6 min

Brief: Israel escalates in Lebanon after soldiers killed, mass funeral in Gaza

This week: 312 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,254 Palestinians in Gaza. A mass funeral was held in Gaza. Israel raided Qalandiya refugee camp in the

Aug 9
5 min

Brief: As Israel continues striking Gaza, will Hamas disarm?

This week: 305 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,222 Palestinians in Gaza. The US announced a deal for Hamas to disarm in Gaza as Israel continued its

Aug 2
4 min

Brief: US pauses Iran strikes, Israel continues attacking Gaza

This week: 298 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,191 Palestinians in Gaza. The US announced a deal for Hamas to disarm in Gaza as Israel continued its

Jul 26
5 min

Brief: US strikes Iran for 8th straight night, Iran kills US soldiers in Jordan

This week: 291 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,100 Palestinians in Gaza. The US continued to strike Iran, killing at least 50 Iranians in the past tw

Jul 19
6 min

Brief: US attacks Iran again, Hamas dissolves government in Gaza

This week: 284 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,093 Palestinians in Gaza. The US attacked Iran multiple times. Israel continued killing Palestinians i

Jul 12
5 min

Brief: Iran holds funeral processions for late Ayatollah. Israel-Lebanon ceasefire tested in the south

This week: 277 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,066 Palestinians in Gaza. Iranians gather for funeral processions of the late Ayatollah killed in the I

Jul 5
6 min

The path from Gaza to Trump's return

What happened inside the White House after October 7, 2023 changed the course of Israel’s war on Gaza and reshaped the Democratic Party. After three primary elections tha

Jun 30
27 min

Mehdi Hasan: Disrupting democracy’s decline

Mehdi Hasan has had a front seat to US and UK politics for decades. With the UK facing yet another change in prime minister a decade after Brexit, and the US looking ahea

Jun 29
20 min

Brief: Iran launches retaliatory strikes on US targets. Israel and Lebanon agree on new framework

This week: 270 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1038 Palestinians in Gaza. Iran launches retaliatory strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait. Israel and Lebanon ag

Jun 28
7 min

Another Take: Qatar’s World Cup, from the inside out

Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on October 24, 2022. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been c

Jun 27
23 min

How did Colombia's election split a nation in two?

Colombia just had the closest vote in its history. A right-wing political outsider with a Trump endorsement beat a left-wing veteran by less than a point. What does this

Jun 26
19 min

The children Gaza lost

A UN inquiry has documented the scale of child deaths in Gaza since October 2023. It lays out mass killings, destroyed hospitals, and blocked aid, even accusing Israel of

Jun 24
27 min

Who’s being left out of the World Cup?

The excitement of the World Cup has arrived in North America. But behind it have been stories of fans being denied visas, players being searched by sniffer dogs, and Iran

Jun 23
23 min

What the World Cup looks like from Gaza

Gaza’s footballers have lost teammates, stadiums and entire seasons. Some have lost limbs. Yet they continue to play. As the World Cup unfolds across North America, Maram

Jun 22
22 min

Brief: Iran closes Strait of Hormuz. Israel wants to continue its military occupation

This week: 263 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 983 Palestinians in Gaza. Iran closes Strait of Hormuz after Israel continues to attack Lebanon. More tha

Jun 21
6 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

I adore Malika. The compassion and interest she brings to her interviews are so important. There is a complexity that she brings out of the stories she’s telling that I don’t get elsewhere.

Ronnie3224 · Dec 2024

Distills without oversimplifying, excellent choice of diverse interviewees who provide key facts/context (often missing from western media coverage), while also giving the listener a sense of what the overall situation feels like for the human beings in the middle of it. Most international affairs podcasts draw on a small stable of pedigreed think-tank or academic “experts” from US or U.K. who have little experiential knowledge or stake in what they’re talking about. The Take does something much more difficult and valuable, by finding people to interview who have both expertise and on the ground knowledge and an actual humans perspective on the situation. The understanding this gives the listener is qualitatively richer than what one can get from listening to people whose expertise is only academic or business/political-elite oriented.

dan4940 · Nov 2024

Superlative and often wrenching coverage of global issues. Their reports on the war in Gaza offer intimate and often heartbreaking accounts of the increasingly desperate lives of Palestinians. Absolutely first-rate.

MGKL96 · Oct 2024

The 20 minute format is accessible but still included important context. I especially appreciate interviews with journalists on the ground and the up to date reports on Palestine.

AnW857 · Apr 2024

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