While Israel’s bombs have stopped, crackdowns inside Iran intensify, branding activists as Israeli agents. How can Iranians rebuild under repression? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, hears from Alex Shams: youtu.be/UIsAyzRYjGY

Can using AI tools like ChatGPT reduce critical thinking skills? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Celia Ford, science journalist and neuroscientist: youtu.be/qz_ZYa3oRSE

Will a new protest movement in Kenya against police brutality impact change in the country? 🎧#TheTake's guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Irũngũ Houghton, executive director Amnesty Kenya: youtu.be/pbb38GDhTpQ

More than 80% of the world’s coral reefs are now hit by mass bleaching. What happens if they vanish? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Heather Starck executive director Coral Reef Alliance: youtu.be/4Mq3fZnBgBY

Coral reefs are in crisis, but there’s still time to act. On this episode of #TheTake, Heather Starck of Coral Reef Alliance breaks down what’s at stake and what’s working in the fight to protect reef ecosystems. 🎧 check out the full episode here: youtu.be/4Mq3fZnBgBY #CoralReefs

What is behind Israel’s increase in strikes on Southern Syria? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Al Jazeera English correspondent, Osama Bin Javaid: youtu.be/Wf0_LXBSRBw

How is the ‘hate’ site Canary Mission being used by the Trump administration to target academics for deportation? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with darryl li, professor ate eat University of Chicago: youtu.be/vFLnjncq53o

Taiwan’s annual war games simulating a real Chinese invasion are crossing into civilian life. Is Taiwan ready to fight in its own streets? 🎧#TheTake's guest host ,Manuel Rapalo, hears from William Yang, senior analyst with Crisis Group: youtu.be/vFLnjncq53o

President Trump plans to replace undocumented farmworkers with Medicaid recipients. It was tried before, but didn’t work. So why now? 🎧#TheTake's guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Manuel Cunha, Jr. President of the Nisei Farmers League: youtu.be/O4EAsR4XXec

What’s driving Mexico City’s battle against gentrification and the displacement of its residents? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, hears from Adrián Acevedo Mansour, Mexico City urban planner: youtu.be/C6ag2Rlo3-0

American citizen, Sayfollah Musallet, was killed by Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Will a Trump investigation into his death lead to justice? 🎧#TheTake's guest host, Manuel Rapalo, hears from Musallet's uncle Hesam Musallet: youtu.be/OlyJsvASxIs

CBS has seemingly given Trump two wins—settling his 60 Minutes lawsuit and cancelling Stephen Colbert. Is US media freedom at a turning point? 🎧#TheTake's guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Rusty Foster, writer at Today in Tabs: youtu.be/GJrH1gS23s0

Why is the FBI tracking the DNA of migrant children as young as four? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with stevie glaberson, Director of Research & Advocacy at Georgetown Law Center: youtu.be/JR7KiUiQrFU

Gazans are starving to death. When will the world act?  🎧#TheTake’s guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Diana Buttu, human rights lawyer and advocate: youtu.be/ckc0F7ulWYk

A couple from Balochistan was murdered on camera over an alleged affair. No arrests were made until the video went viral. What does this reveal about justice in Pakistan? 🎧#TheTake's guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Sadia Baloch: youtu.be/M0xs1_Nkxng

President Trump’s new executive order takes aim at “Woke AI.” But what does that mean—and can AI ever truly be unbiased? 🎧#TheTake’s guest host ,Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Alejandra Montoya-Boyer 🇲🇽🇺🇸 of The Leadership Conference: youtu.be/zajgnmx2_qM

A couple was killed in Balochistan over accusations of having an affair. Why did it take a viral video for Pakistan to respond? 🎧#TheTake's guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with human rights defender, Cadia Baloch: youtu.be/zajgnmx2_qM

As Gaza starved, podcast influencers ,the Nelk boys, sat down with Netanyahu for an interview. Then the online backlash ensued. 🎧#TheTake's guest host, Manuel Rapalo, speaks with Nathan J Robinson, editor-in-chief with Current Affairs: youtu.be/ulprg4cKLYk

Amid threats and starvation in Gaza, how do Palestinian journalists keep telling the story? 🎧 Al Jazeera English journalist Hind Khoudary spoke with #TheTake about the challenges she faces: youtu.be/aUPUjejYyf4

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19