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What if you were witnessing the most pivotal moment in a generation -- one that would determine the future of technology, trade, the climate of the planet -- and you didn't even realize it, because you were too distracted by partisan fights on social media and shouting matches on cable news? Global Translations unlocks the power of POLITICO's newsrooms across the globe to help you understand the method behind the madness of the most pressing issues in the world today. In season one, we're unpacking how the Trump Administration's fixation on China is foundational and is affecting policy across the board. Episodes begin this Thursday. Global Translations, a POLITICO podcast brought to you by Citi, a leading global bank.

In her last episode as host of the show, Susan joins her "partner in crime" Blake Hounshell, the editor of POLITICO Magazine, to make sense of the ways the Trump Administration has disrupted Washington's relations with the world. Blake turns the tables on Susan, as he asks a few questions of his own. A note for listeners: Watch this space! Stay subscribed to the Global Politico so you don't miss what's coming next from the team at POLITICO.

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, an influential voice among national security conservatives, is struggling over what to think of the GOP’s Trumpian remake. He joins The Global Politico to discuss  Trump’s temperament, his love of Ronald Regan, and the new team of incoming Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton.

John Bolton has advocated for war with Iran and North Korea. He loathes the United Nations, disdains international law, and still thinks the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was the right idea. Hillary Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan joins The Global Politico to discuss the Bolton pick, Rex Tillerson's Twitter firing and where's the U.S. place in foreign policy leadership going forward.

Days ago, Republican abruptly shut down the committee’s yearlong investigation of President Trump and the 2016 Russian election meddling, Congressman Adam Schiff joins The Global Politico to discuss how it all went down, what it’s like when a congressional committee melts down and what he thinks comes next in the investigations of the president that are still ongoing.

Sen. Jim Risch, the conservative Idaho Republican who now stands to take over Foreign Relations next year, joins The Global Politico to discuss his outlook on Trump's foreign policy. Risch shares his views on North Korea, the Russia investigations on Capitol Hill, the Iran Deal and Senator Bob Corker's relationship with the president.

Listen to Susan Glasser, international columnist for Politico and host of the podcast The Global Politico, talk about being a woman editor and journalist.

Senator Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat who is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joins The Global Politico for an exclusive, in-depth briefing on the state of play in its investigation of the 2016 hacking of the American presidential election by Russia and whether President Trump and his campaign knew about it, or collaborated with it in any way.

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and Obama's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes join The Global Politico to discuss their upcoming HBO documentary "The Final Year." They speak frankly about Obama's legacy, how aides misunderstood the rise of Trump, and how they're coping with an "America first" foreign policy.

Leading Iran expert Suzanne Maloney and Iranian-born journalist Maziar Bahari join The Global Politico to discuss the Iran sanction deadline President Trump faces and how a wave of street protests are affecting his decision. Trump has called the agreement the "worst deal ever," yet many Iran experts expect that he'll keep the deal alive by waiving U.S. sanctions.

For a special 50th episode of The Global Politico, Susan Glasser looks back on a year of the Donald Trump presidency and the world's reaction. She offers five key takeaways from Global Politico interviews in 2017; guests ranging from the Iranian foreign minister to Senator Bob Corker to women in national defense that are speaking out about sexism. Subscribe to The Global Politico newsletter here: http://politi.co/2A8iAfg

In part two of this week's Global Politico, Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak talks with Susan Glasser just hours after the New York Times published his scathing op-ed on the current government of Israel.  He elaborates on what he wrote, discussing the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the future of a possible Trump peace plan for the Mideast and Israel's shift of focus from the "moral high ground."

In part one of this week's Global Politico, Israel's ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer sits down with Susan Glasser for a rare on-the-record conversation about the likelihood of Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the effect that would have on potentially restarting Mideast peace talks. Dermer also explains how closely the Israelis are aligned with the White House and outlines a potential timetable for Iran concessions before Trump completely pulls out of the deal.

Ambassador Kurt Volker, the Trump administration’s special envoy charged with ending the war in Ukraine, joins The Global Politico this week. Volker talks at length about just how troubled relations are with Russia these days despite Trump’s hoped-for reconciliation, how the several rounds of talks he’s held with a top Putin adviser have not yet made any progress, what it’s like to be a special envoy for a Secretary of State who’s vowed to get rid of them, and why he supports sending weapons to Ukraine.

This week, a special part two of The Global Politico, our report on the everyday culture of sexual harassment — and sexism — that still plagues women who dare to represent America in the world. This episode features interviews with Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, a key figure in pushing for more women in national security, and Deborah James, the second woman secretary of the Air Force.

Susan Glasser, host of the Global POLITICO podcast, takes over the Women Rule feed for this important episode. Six women with careers in national security sit down with Glasser to explore the specific challenges faced by women who step up to participate in the policy debates about America’s place in the world. Frequently, they find themselves so outnumbered that even offenses which would stir outrage in many other workplaces are still so commonplace they are hardly remarked on. Laura Rosenberger, Evelyn Farkas, Mieke Eoyang, Loren Schulman, Kathleen Hicks and Julianne Smith explore how they've handled uncomfortable situations, confronted sexism and succeeded in this male-dominated field.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man until he was jailed for a decade by Vladimir Putin, joins The Global Politico to discuss opposing Putin, the price he paid, and the current status of the liberal resistance. Plus, author and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum joins the show to discuss similarities between Stalin and Putin, dissidence in Russia and the extent of Putin's power.

The Global Politico dives into North Korea this week with Admiral Dennis Blair, the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, and Ambassador Chris Hill, the last senior American to negotiate with the North Koreans. With fire, fury and war panic reverberating across the country, Susan Glasser examines how worried Americans should be, the nuances of negotiating, and options for America's path forward.

On this week's episode of The Global Politico, a group of leading Democrat leaders and strategists reconvene a year later to debate their election losses, the diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016, and how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it – yet they are just as consequential.

This week The Global Politico examines whether America and Russia are really doomed to clash on the world stage, how we got Vladimir Putin so wrong — and what’s next for the Kremlin leader. Is it a new Cold War? Are we Russian hands too obsessed with making Putin and his country a boogie man in American politics today?

Hannah Dreier joins The Global Politico this week to recount her experience covering the Venezuela crisis, as an AP correspondent. She takes listeners inside what it is like to live through complete upheaval and the crazy things you get used to when your home is falling apart. Hannah was robbed, snatched by the secret police and bought Cheerios on the black market. This is a story about an oil rich country that has lines for bread and milk and toilet paper, the world’s highest crime rate, the world’s highest inflation rate.

The Global Politico hits the road again, to the scene of last week’s terrorist attack in Manchester — as it caused an unprecedented halt to political campaigning just two weeks before the general election. And we’ll explore the backstory of Brexit, how it does and doesn’t compare with the populist wave that’s brought us Donald Trump in the United States and a host of political upheavals in other countries. Our guest for most the podcast is Steve Hilton, who was long a British political guru of the first ranks, once so close to former British Prime Minister David Cameron he was known as “David’s brain.”

In an exclusive for The Global POLITICO, Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the Iraq war, talks Trump, Iraq and his fears the country could descend into “chaotic violence” all over again, and the need for America to step back up in the melting down Middle East. An original #nevertrumper, hehe says he’s now seeing “fantastic opportunity” in Trump’s newly assertive foreign policy.

Michael Anton wrote inflammatory essays backing Trump during last year’s campaign. Now he’s in charge of explaining Trump’s keep-em-guessing foreign policy at Trump’s NSC. In an exclusive interview with Susan Glasser’s Global POLITICO podcast, Anton talks Syria, North Korea, Steve Bannon — and the virtues of Trump’s unpredictability. Not to mention who’s best dressed in the White House, and why his intellectual hero Machiavelli would approve of the president.

After President Trump called her “Hillary Clinton’s P.R. Person,” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell has some choice words for him too. In an exclusive interview for The Global Politico, Mitchell says “I’ve never seen anything like” the flat-out lies of the Trump White House, with the briefing room being used to “mislead or misdirect or obfuscate.”

Are the spiraling investigations around Trump and Russia “a conspiracy trap”? How much is Trump like President Putin after all? Russia-born author and journalist Masha Gessen joins The Global POLITICO this week to talk about the strange confluence of these two leaders — and what we should really be afraid of when it comes to these two nuclear-armed tough guys.

The Global POLITICO hits the road this week, traveling to Kurdistan to talk to Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani about the the raging battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, the “failure of Iraqi politics” — and what America First means to the Middle East. “We are fighting a war of survival,” he says, and the outcome isn’t at all clear.

Each week, POLITICO’s Susan Glasser will go backstage in a world disrupted, interviewing leaders in Washington — and around the globe — who can help us understand an international scene that can seem like it’s spinning out of control. The podcast will skip the punditry to feature candid, revealing, news-making conversations about global politics with those who are helping shape it; you can subscribe to it on iTunes or find it on www.politico.com.