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Understanding News Through History in our weekly podcast conversations with scholars.

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Colonizing Kashmir: 

State-building Under Indian Occupation

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News Highlights

Russia Bolsters Border Bases Near Finland

 Did you know Stalin predicted that Finland would fall in 12 days? But Finland held against the Soviets! This is the story of how Russia wins when no one helps its victims. And this history bears important lessons for Ukraine now.  

History

Moody's Downgraded U.S. Credit

Moody's downgraded U.S. credit below triple-A, which is the highest rating. This happened because of the fear that Pres. Trump's push for a big tax cut package might add trillions of dollars to U.S. national debt. Unfortunately, now all three credit rating agencies (Fitch, S&P & Moody's) have downgraded U.S. credit below triple-A. What does this mean? It could mean that our government's cost of borrowing will increase. 

History

Birthright Citizenship

Supreme Court's heard oral arguments by the Pres. Trump's Administration challenging two interrelated issues: birthright citizenship & also the ability of a single federal judge to issue a national injunction against presidential executive orders. 

History

Crypto In S&P 500

 On May 19, crypto company Coinbase (COIN) will replace Discover (DFS) in the S&P 500 index. 

History

US-China Reach "Temp" Trade Deal

 Reciprocal tariffs were lowered to 10% for only 90 days. The base level of U.S. tariffs on most Chinese goods was reduced to 30%, a big decrease from 145%. And China lowered its recent 125% levies on U.S. products to 10%.  

History

Cracking CA's Homelessness

Gov. Newsome is cracking down on homelessness by calling on CA cities to ban homeless encampments. 

History

History Highlights

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses the history of China's labor costs.

  

Story of How China 

MadeI ts Labor Cheap 

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses U.S. religion & politics with Notre Dame Scholar

 

Political History of Secularism's Rise and Religion's Retreat

Adel Aali, host of Scholars Unravel Middle East, discusses Allah in pre-Islam Arabia

 

Allah Before Muhammad: 

Pre-Islamic Arabia's Real Story

Adel Aali, History Behind New host, discusses America's Arctic security with Dr. Troy Bouffard

 

America's Arctic Security - What Is "Arctic Exceptionalism"? 

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses filibuster history.

Filibuster History

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses U.S. antitrust history with Yale scholar.

 

History of Antitrust - Big Corps Stifling Competition? Amazon, Google, Meta...

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses the history of long wars and attrition warfare.

 

History of Attrition Warfare

 

How Japan Works!

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses history of German AfD,immigratns & elections

 

U.S. Export to Germany: Nazi Propaganda!

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses the history of artificial intelligence.

                  AI: Our Fear and Embrace

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses the history of presidential inaugurations.

President For One Day: Inauguration Stories 

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses the history of presidential power .

 

Power of the Presidency: What Our Founders Envisioned. Prof. Mortenson, University of Michigan Law 

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses the history of U.S.-Canada relations.

How 1903 Changed the America-Canada-British Relations

 

History of Public Debt - Medieval Kingdoms To Modern Countries 

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses immigration & presidential power.

 

Pres. Trump & Immigration Exceptionalism 

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, interviews about California's wildfire management.


How California Ranks In Wildfire Management

 What Happened To Denmark - Once Among Europe's Largest States?

 

Does Trump Help Greenlanders Play World Powers Against Each other?

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses the history of Mexican-American War.

History we forgot, but Mexicans have not. 

Adel Aali, History Behind News Podcast host, interviews guest about history of tax and tariffs.

 

Tariffs and Taxes - 

History of U.S. Revenue

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, peels the history behind urban fires.

 

Fire Fighters Fighting Each Other To Put Out Fires

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses history of Nestorian Christianity in Iranian Empire.

 Christianity in Persian Empire - A History

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, interviews Dr. Douglas Irwin about tariffs in S5E24.

 

Tariffs' History: U.S. Politics & Foreign Policy | S5E24

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses the history of papacy with Dr. Roger Collins.

History of the Papacy

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses history of how nations use cryptocurrency.

 

History of How Nations Have Are Using Cryptocurrency 

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses the history of tariffs.

History of Tariffs

266 popes. 11 born outside Europe. 

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses America's Presidents Who Defied Supreme Court.

 

POTUS v. SCOTUS

Adel Aali's interview, History Behind News, about America's Manifest Destiny and Men of Destiny.

 

America's Manifest Destiny 

 Adel Aali, History Behind News Host, discusses the history of English as America's official languag
Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses history of Jordan.

  

Will Trump Destabilize Jordan?

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses the history of Canadian-American relations.

 

Trudeau: Trump is not kidding! 

Adel Aali, host of History Behind News podcast, discusses legal history of birthright citizenship.

                   Birthright Citizenship

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, tells the history of Mount Rushmore.

Carving Pres. Trump into Mount Rushmore? 

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses the history of tariffs

 Are Tariffs As American As Apple Pie? 

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, interviews scholar about U.S.-Canada relations.

Can Canada Protect Itself Without America? 

Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast host, discusses Colombia's history with Dr. Michael LaRosa.

 Does Pres. Trump Know Colombia's History With America?

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses presidential speeches with professor of rhetoric.

Trump's Speaking Style Compared to Other Presidents 

President's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, discusses birthright citizeship rights.

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, interviews a scholar about LA fires.

 LA Fires - Rebuilding, Legal Ramifications & History

 Until 2022, America Had A Big Hole In Its Climate Change Laws

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About HbN Podcast

History behind News

Others cover the news. 

We uncover the history behind it. 

 

We do this in weekly podcast conversations with eminent scholars and historians who explain and analyze the history behind current events. And we call this peeling the history behind our news.


Why is this important? Because news in America lacks historical perspective.


With more than 173 guest scholars hosted by Adel Aali, HbN is now in its 5th season with new episodes every Tuesday at 5 a.m.,  U.S. Eastern Time. 


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From Ancient Empires To Modern Nations

 A message for Middle Eastern Americans: Don't let U.S. news media or Hollywood tell your story. And don't follow people who read a few books and are suddenly experts. In this program, I bring you the sources of Middle East analysis and history - 173 scholars (and counting) who distill their decades of research into an hour conversation with me to unravel the misperceptions that divide East and West and to clarify our common misconceptions about the Middle East - from its ancient empires to modern nations. 


Visit our Middle East page for details.  

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173 Scholars & Counting

Our more than 172 podcast guests who have helped us interpret news and current events through the perspective of history are scholars from these and many other prestigious institutions: 


Oxford, Yale, Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the Hoover Institution, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, King's College London, Princeton University, Columbia University, the Atlantic Council, Duke, Rhodes College, Northwestern Law, Vanderbilt University, US Naval War College, Air Command and Staff College, Marine Corp University, UVA, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, NYU, Rice, University of Chicago, Baylor University, USC, UC Berkeley, UCSF, UCI, UCSD, UC Davis, UCR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israel Democracy Institute, University of Aberdeen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Navarra, University of Seville, Helsinki University, Diego Portales University (Chile), Lund University (Sweden), University of Edinburgh, Near East University (Türkiye), Cardiff University, the Free University of Berlin, The Wall Street Journal, and many others. 


Our guests include Pulitzer Prize winners, current and former senior reporters at The Wall Street Journal, former White House advisors and other high-ranking government officials. Many have testified in Congressional hearings and others frequently contribute to major media outlets and widely read publications, ranging from the BBC, NPR, PBS and CNN to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

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