Jesse Medina

Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. As the U.S. imposes sky-high tariffs and renegotiates trade agreements, it’s rewriting the rules of the global economy. So far tariffs have had a limited impact, but is this just the calm before a very big storm? What happens when globalization’s biggest backer becomes its biggest critic? Fareed Zakaria joins Ian Bremmer.

U.S. tariffs are creating economic chaos and driving uncertainty all over the world. On Ian Explains, Ian Bremmer breaks down how the global trade map is already starting to shift as allies go around the US to negotiate trade alliances of their own.

As the U.S. imposes sky-high tariffs and renegotiates trade agreements, it’s rewriting the rules of the global economy. So far tariffs have had a limited impact, but is this just the calm before a very big storm? What happens when globalization’s biggest backer becomes its biggest critic? Fareed Zakaria joins Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

Stream now with KPBS Passport! Watch Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. In response to French Resistance activities in the area and the D-Day landing of June 6, 1944, a German SS division arrived in the small French village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10th, 1944, and massacred 643 innocent civilians. It was one of the worst atrocities of World War II.