WBEZ's Worldview

On Today's Show: Cruising the aisles of a Filipino grocery store offers a history lesson in the colonizers, traders, and neighbors who passed through different parts of the Philippines over the centuries. 

This week, Worldview is launching a series in collaboration with the Chicago Sun-Times called “Hungry For Home,” where Monica Eng helps us explore Chicago’s ethnic communities through the food they eat and the grocery stores where they shop. Poland and Ukraine share more than a border. Their common history goes back over a thousand years as the borderlands between Europe and the East. Over the last century in Chicago, the communities have teamed up over a shared cuisine, lending to a network of dozens of delis, bakeries, groceries, and restaurants. Today, we talk about what sets the foods apart, where to buy them, and how to eat them. Polish American home cook Anna Zolkowski Sobor and Ukrainian American Worldview producer Julian Hayda give Monica Eng a tour of Rich’s Fresh Market in River Grove. Then Hayda and Eng talk about how to order at a Ukrainian restaurant from Magic Jug in the Dunning neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago. At the top of the show we’ll also be joined by Polish-Nigerian journalist, Remi Adekoya, to discuss last week’s independence day controversy in Poland. Adekoya’s latest article forForeign Policy is called “Extreme Nationalism Is as Polish as Pierogi.”

This week, Worldview is launching a series in collaboration with the Chicago Sun-Times called “Hungry For Home,” where Monica Eng helps us explore Chicago’s ethnic communities through the food they eat and the grocery stores where they shop. Chicago offers a wealth of Korean food culture but some people could use a helping hand when it comes to navigating it. Today we tour one of Chicago’s biggest Korean food stores for a primer on how to shop for the groceries with local foodie Theo Hahn. WBEZ’s Susie An and her friend Sophie Kim offer a primer on how to order and eat some basic Korean dishes in a restaurant. Plus, University of Chicago Professor, Bruce Cumings, joins us to discuss some of the politics behind these foods, and some of the news that’s come out of Korea in recent weeks..

On Today's Show: In the past couple of years, Jordan has been greatly affected by ongoing conflict happening in surrounding areas. Movie Director, Jason Reitman, has carved out a niche in comedy that deals with transitional moments in life.The Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir returns to Chicago this week to perform at the Symphony Center Presents Special Concert

On Today's Show: India is in the midst of its own #MeToo movement, just a year after it shook up major institutions in the U.S Muthaland explores a young Indian-American woman who is forever changed when, on a retreat to her homeland A new photo exhibit, Women of Togo, explores the West African country that UNICEF named the 15th “Most Dangerous Place to be born” in the world. 

On Today's Show:Many critics argue that superhero films are ruining the film industry, prioritizing profit over art form. We’ve become accustomed to bad news regarding climate change, but the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) will join us to give some good news.  A current Bill in Congress could give private companies the responsibility for moving high-level radioactive waste (HLRW)

On Today's Show:Last Tuesday, the Federal Judge tasked with Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy approved a plan to reduce $4 billion owed by the former Government Development Bank. India’s general elections will be held next spring. Worldview’s Viviana Garcia-Blanco talks with Josè Olivarez about issues of anti-blackness and toxic machismo attitudes in the Latinx community.

On Today's Show: Yesterday, a mass grave of 200 people was found in Ethiopia. The legend of Greek-American opera singer and actress, Maria Callas, has only grown since her death, some 40 years agoThe rise of the Black Panther Party was one of the most influential political and social movements of the 20th Century

On Today's Show:After months of President Trump’s threats to fire him, Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Wednesday. Loyalty: Stories is a documentary series that follows the lives of American Muslims in the military. Millions of children around the world are currently abandoned or orphaned and have no family to call their own.

On Today's Show: Analysts predicted a “Blue wave”, led by non-white male candidates and voters.  Catalina Maria Johnson, host of Vocalo’s Beat Latino, just got back from the 2018 World Music Expo (WOMEX) held in Las Palmas on the Canary Islands.

On Today's Show:The Midterm Elections are finally here. A group of local journalists wants to tell real stories of asylum seekers.

Proponents of globalization promised a world of shared prosperity and universal liberal values. But the political upheavals of recent years have been driven by a sense that, for many in the West, globalization failed to deliver. Rising inequality, rapid social change, and the fissiparous effects of technology have created fertile ground for populists with promises to “take back” control of their nations from globalist elites and outside forces. Does today’s political climate of distrust and division spell the end of the age of globalism? And as this world order is dismantled what might take its place? To answer these questions,Worldview will join Ian Bremmer before a live audience at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.  Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of the Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He is the author of the latest New York Times best seller Us Vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism.

On Today's Show:Mexico is the second deadliest country to be a journalist, second only to Syria For today’s “Master Class”, Milos chats with Chicago filmmaker, Gabe Polsky, director of the new documentary, “In Search of Greatness”. Teatro Vista’s new production of “American Jornalero” is about the plight of urban day laborers amidst the simmering America First movement.

On today's show: President Trump is preparing to send as many as 5,200 troops to the US-Mexico border, in response to migrants and asylum-seekers coming from Honduras through Mexico We discuss the recent acts of white supremacist terrorism (the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, the shooting of Black shoppers at a Kentucky Kroger, and the pipe-bombs sent to Democrats and Trump critics) with an Interfaith leader and activist

On today's show: The ongoing conflict in Yemen"Killer robots" and the future of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) For this week's Global Notes: a BBC story about when the Nigerian Military attacked musician Fela Kuti