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How did North Korea get the bomb?

Exploring how the secretive state has acquired nuclear weapons

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How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?

Once the richest country in South America, Venezuela is now in deep economic crisis

• 23 mins

How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?

How did immigration stop being a political taboo in the UK?

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Does Poverty Change The Way We Think?

Investigating the scientific claims that being poor affects how our brains work

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Is Work Too Easy?

We used to work ourselves to an early death. Do we now sit ourselves to one instead?

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How Do You Report Terrorism?

Should the media devote less coverage to terrorist attacks?

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Is the Greatest Threat to Putin Really Alexei Navalny?

Assessing the strength of the opposition leader who has run mass protests in Russia

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Why Does China Want to Revive the Silk Road?

The biggest infrastructure initiative of all time could change the current world order.

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Have We Always Felt This Tired?

The past, present and possible future story of human sleep

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What's So Special About Qatar?

The tiny state behind a global diplomatic feud.

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Is Gene Editing Out of Control?

The Inquiry looks into the unintended consequences of gene editing

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Is it Time to Ban the Plastic Bottle?

Every single second, 20,000 single-use drinking bottles are sold around the world

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What would war with North Korea look like?

We reveal the conversations inside the war rooms

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Who Gets to Have Their Own Country?

You might think simple rules decide the creation of nation states. You'd be wrong.

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Are South Africa's Police Failing?

A story of crime and often no punishment

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How Do You Fix Someone Else's Election?

Smears, bots and bags of cash - stories of old tricks and new.

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Are Video Games a Waste of Time?

Gaming is replacing work for some young men in the US

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How Has The Ku Klux Klan Lasted So Long?

Why the US racist group the Ku Klux Klan continues to exist

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What Can We Do With Our Dead?

Cemeteries around the world are fast running out of space.

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How Do We Stop People Dying in Floods?

Do we have the power to avoid the natural forces of intense rainfall?

• 22 mins

Can China solve the North Korea problem?

Can China persuade North Korea to step back from its nuclear ambitions?

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Could We Ban the Sale of Petrol and Diesel Cars Now?

Can the electric car rule the road?

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Is Privacy Dead?

Can we protect our privacy in the digital age?

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Can We Teach Robots Ethics?

From driverless cars to "carebots", machines are entering the realm of right and wrong.

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Is the Pope Catholic?

Inside the fierce debate dividing the Roman Catholic Church

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How Do You End A Civil War?

Why internal conflicts end and what it might mean for Syria.

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How Powerful is Iran鈥檚 Revolutionary Guard?

The growth and reach of a group labelled a 鈥榯error force鈥� by President Trump

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Is the Knowledge Factory Broken?

Dodgy data, contradictory findings, perverse incentives 鈥� the challenges facing academia

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What Does the Saudi Crown Prince Want?

He has pushed through reforms but some fear there is a darker desire driving the ruler

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Why Doesn鈥檛 Apple Pay More Tax?

Examining claims that the world鈥檚 most profitable company is aggressively dodging tax

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