Answering the Question: Recent Episodes
Answering the Question
Answering the Question is run by high schoolers from diverse backgrounds across the nation. Many of us participate in speech and debate, specifically Extemporaneous Speaking, where we have developed abilities to form cohesive arguments and explain complex issues in a concise fashion. All of us at Answering the Question are passionate about current events and speaking up against social injustice.
Adithi Reddy answers the question: Why did the U.S. Halt foreign assistance to Ethiopia?
Carter Hull answers the question: What would we gain from the institution of new virus mitigation measures?
Kelly Hu answers the question: How will China promote itself globally in a post-pandemic recovery?
Lakshmi Sunder answers the question: What is the state of reproductive rights in Brazil?
Nikhil Reddy answers the question: How has China interfered with Hong Kong’s Democracy?
Anushka Kumar answers the question: What is Title IX? in our collaboration with End the Panic.
Ford McCracken answers the question: Why are Georgia Republicans backing down from key 2022 races?
Sydney Carroll answers the question: How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected working women?
Lakshmi Sunder answers the question: What are the implications of the Biden administration's recent allowance of mailed abortion pills?
Gargi Rakhade and Sneha Bhale answer the question: Who is Taylor Swift? Narrated by Sneha Bhale.
Lakshmi Sunder answers the question: What is driving the high rates of femicide in El Salvador?
Anish Beeram answers the question: Who is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner? Narrated by Sneha Bhale.
Sydney Carroll answers the question: Who is Jacinda Ardern? Women Leader Series Part 1.
Ethan Wilkes answers the question: What will the Azerbaijan-Armenian peace deal mean for Middle Eastern stability?
Lakshmi Sunder answers the question: How does Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Compare to New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern’s Plan?
Sydney Carroll answers the question: How Will US-Iran Relations Change in a Biden Presidency?
Annika Hesse answers the question: What is in the new Brexit deal and what will it mean for Britain’s commercial relations?
Sneha Bhale answers the question: What will be the future of Germany under new leadership?
Anushka Kumar answers the question: Grudges in the Middle East? Iran and Israel- Part 3
Anish Beeram answers the question: Grudges in the Middle East? The United States and Israel- Part 2
Jack Siegel answers the question: "Grudges in the Middle East?" The United States and Iran- Part 1- Narrated by Sneha Bhale.
Ford McCracken answers the question: What are the implications of the events of the capitol riots? in the January 6, 2021 Series Part 2 featuring Sydney Carroll
Sydney Carroll answers the question: How will the results of the Georgia Senate Runoffs affect the 117th Congress? in the January 6, 2021 Series Part 1 featuring Ford McCracken
Kay Rollins answers the question: What is the current state of the Tigray Conflict in Ethiopia? This episode was narrated by Sneha Bhale.
Sydney Carroll answers the question: How would a Biden administration’s stance on China differ from Trump’s?
Jack Siegel answers the question: What do the 2020 election results indicate for the future of the Democratic Party?
Ford McCraken answers the question: What will Joe Biden accomplish in his first 100 days?
In our Answering the Question x Extemper's Bible collab, Anushka Kumar answers the question: What is happening in the Tigray region?
Carter Hull answers the question: How will the US’ withdrawal from the WHO affect the future of global health governance?
Sydney Carroll answers the question: Why is the Middle East boycotting French Products?
Anish Beeram answers the question: Will COVID-19 lead to greater globalization or isolationism throughout the world?
Lakshmi Sunder answers the question: What Republicans are not voting for Trump this election and why?
Annika Hesse answers the question: How has Greece utilized the pandemic to push back refugees?
Ford McCracken answers the question: What effects has the reopening of college campuses had on the COVID-19 pandemic?
Jack Siegel answers the question: What role would neoliberalism play in a Biden/Harris administration?
Lakshmi Sunder answers the question: How have police unions affected the progress of criminal justice reform?
Kelly Hu answers the question: How can the international community ensure fair elections in Mali following the military coup?
Anish Beeram answers the question: What does the end of the Abe era mean for the United States?
Anushka Kumar answers the question: What does the Israel-UAE peace deal mean for the Middle East?
Ford McCracken answers the question: What are the Democrats’ chances of taking back the U.S. Senate this election?
Jack Siegel answers the question: How have Democrat and GOP responses to the uncovering of Russian bounties on US troops differed?
Carter Hull answers the question: How has Trump changed the US' relationship with NATO?
Sydney Carroll answers the question: How has coronavirus complicated the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP?
Mary Courtney Finn answers the question: What are the differences between the IMF and the world bank?
Gargi Rakhade answers the question: How have women's rights in India been impeded on by the lockdown?
Anushka Kumar answers the question: How is the coronavirus intensifying the Yemen crisis?
Kelly Hu answers the question: How has the International Community Responded to Rohingya Refugee Crisis?
Gargi Rakhade answers the question: Does China's Sterilization of Uighur Muslims qualify as Genocide?