Joanna Fensome and Mitch Hulse sit down with Dr David Boyd on his 2015 book The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future, which from his experience as an environmental lawyer discusses why there is optimism in climate change policy.

Mitch Hulse, Raphaël Roman, and Nathan Seef discus the appointment of of Betsy DeVos as US Secretary of Education, the questionable conviction of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and a police strike in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo.

Joanna Fensome, Mitch Hulse, and Raphaël Roman sit down with Chad Rickaby and Zameena Dadani to discuss their Global Policy Project, which is one of the many capstone assignments of the MPPGA program. The two had worked with the Indian firm Sub-K to work on financial inclusion.