Worldview: May 11, 2016

Worldview: May 11, 2016

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
A profile of Ben Rhodes in this week’s New York Times Magazine has ignited the foreign policy “establishment,” in part because of things Rhodes says in the story. We pick apart the uproar over the Rhodes story. We also talk about the ongoing refugee crisis and the growing trend of governments cracking down on civil society. Plus, long before American Idol, there was ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’. Since 1956, the annual competition has been one of the world’s most watched television shows. Now, for the first time, Eurovision will be broadcast live on American TV.