After 32 years, a celebrated Southern California "shock jock," who got his start on Fresno State's campus radio station, is retiring from the show that made him a star. Cookie "Chainsaw" Randolph is leaving a massively popular San Diego morning show in December, along with co-host Dave Rickards, radio station...
Ian Bremmer: Chinese Power
Xi Jinping just got a rare third term as the head of China's ruling Communist Party. But having so much power comes with big tradeoffs and implications for China — and the rest of the world. Zero-COVID is saving Chinese lives, yet killing the Chinese economy. And the West is...
The Risks of Bidenomics Go Beyond Inflation
As voters cast their ballots for the November 8 election, surging prices are uppermost in their minds. Annual inflation is running at just over 8%, nearly a 40-year high and the hottest in many voters’ lifetimes. For decades, inflation was quiescent enough that most Americans could ignore it. Now the...
‘Kill Everyone’: Russian Violence in Ukraine was Strategic
Even by the standards of the important military officers who came and went in this tiny village, the man walking behind the Kamaz truck stood out. Soldiers providing security peered from behind fences, their guns bristling in every direction. Two Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters circled overhead, providing additional cover for...
Zakaria: It Turns out That Those Smoke-Filled Rooms Weren’t as Bad as We Thought
History and current polling both tell us that the House of Representatives will likely flip over to Republican control in the November midterms. What happens then? Actual governance will come to a standstill. There will be a flurry of investigations on everything from the Justice Department to Hunter Biden to the border...
Will Iran’s Women Win?
Dictatorships tend to fall the way Ernest Hemingway said people go bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. The omens can be obvious with hindsight. In 1978 Iran’s corrupt, brutal, unpopular regime was besieged by protesters and led by a sick old shah. The next year it was swept away. Today Iranian protesters are...
Local Iranian Americans Join in Global Solidarity Protest of Islamist Regime
Iranian Americans continued Sunday to join in worldwide protests calling for the overthrow of Iran's Islamist regime. About 200 protesters gathered for the fifth time in recent weeks in River Park to share in an international day of solidarity with the Iranian people, led by the Iranian-American Alliance of Fresno....
Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women
The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave, flipping the bird at its Supreme Leader in a challenge to one of the most significant revolutions in modern history. Day after dangerous day, on open streets and in gated schools, in a flood of tweets and brazen videos, they...
US Votes as Democracy Is Under Attack
US midterm elections have traditionally been a referendum on the president. But in 2022 even Joe Biden wants the vote to be all about his predecessor, Donald Trump, who still dominates the GOP. In this episode of GZERO World - and for the first time in front of a live...
Zakaria: China Is Weaker Than We Thought. Will We Change Our Policies Accordingly?
It seems clear that China’s growth is stalling. The country that since 1978 has grown at an average of over 9 percent annually is projected to grow about 3 percent this year. Some think tanks have postponed their projections for when the country’s economy would overtake the United States to become the world’s largest...