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The Trust Falls and High Kicks podcast is a space to guide people to joy, vulnerability, and hope through our stories, with a few giggles along the way. I want TF&HK to be a safe space where we can come together, laugh until we pee our pants, support one another, and share all our hard, dirty, messy, big, beautiful, amazing life stories. That's how we learn and hope and grow to be the men and women God created us to be! Dig deep with me and explore what it means to be vulnerable as we strive to live life with humble obedience and utter joy. Come on, let's do some trust falls and high kicks ...

What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East. When Islamist parties rise to power through free elections, the United States has too often been ambivalent or opposed, preferring instead pliable dictators. With this legacy of democratic disrespect in mind, and drawing on new interviews with top American officials, Shadi Hamid explores universal questions of morality, power, and hypocrisy.

In 2015, a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton's role in approving the sale of an American uranium company to the Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom. An indispensable guide to the hidden background of recent events, Fallout shows how Putin's bid for nuclear dominance produced a series of political scandals that ultimately posed one of the greatest threats to our democracy in modern American history.

In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, from rising seas to more violent storms to desertification. Yet why do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational policies that can reduce carbon output and slow global warming? In Oceans Rise, Empires Fall, Gerard Toal identifies geopolitics as the culprit.