Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

The US has been hit by a blue wave, maybe even a tsunami. But what can the Democrats achieve with their control of the congress? Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue speak with Dane Waters, a Republican political strategist who crossed the aisle to lead a SuperPAC campaign in support of the Democratic senate candidate for Texas, James Talarico.  They discuss whether this resu...

In February this year, the New START treaty governing nuclear weapon stockpiles in USA and Russia expired. Is there anything to replace it? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez, host of the podcast Face Off: Nuclear Anarchy, joins Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly to explain why experts are increasingly worried about a new era of nuclear competition. They also discuss C...

South Africa's politics are changing fast, and it may signal something much bigger. The African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela and President Cyril Ramaphosa, is losing its grip on the country's biggest cities.  In Johannesburg, years of failing services, power outages and frustration with government competence are reshaping how South Africans vote. For the firs...

Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, a Senate race turns ugly, and a midterm election that could reshape his presidency. On the eve of the US midterm elections, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are joined by Jeremy Shapiro from the European Council on Foreign Relations to unpack a frantic fortnight in US politics.  Trump’s diesel deal with Putin has drawn accusations that Was...

Populists are rising. Traditional parties are struggling. Trust in institutions is falling. So what if these aren't separate crises at all? In this special live edition of Global Roaming, taken from Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly's conversation for Roaring Stories at Balmain's Red Mill Distillery, the two sit down to discuss Waleed's Quarterly Essay entitled Time of Monsters:...