In this episode, Tanya D. Davis talked with former USAID Power Africa Partnerships Office Deputy Director about the impact on American business in African countries and on the safety and security of the United States. Gwen Andersen, outlines all the things the agency was uniquely equipped to handle and predicts that it will be revived in some form because it met too many American needs not to be. She delves into claims of waste, fraud and abuse and argues all claimsof corruption are untrue and misinformed. Andersen also explains how inadequate agency officials were at explaining to the American people all that USAID dollars did for them before it was too late. Andersen is now a co-founder of The A Energy Company, which, according to their website, seeks to "continuethe vital work of electrifying Africa.”

The United States Supreme Court handed down two immigration-related decisions in the last week of the term that left legal scholars, deportees and non-citizen parents with as many questions as answers. Tanya D. Davis jumped into the immigration law melee to see how much refuge is still available in the system - and how much hope can be found in the courts.

As Palestinians are killed seeking food supplies and Jews in the U.S. are targeted with firebomb attacks, Jewish leaders in the U.S. are tasked with balancing the need to help protect their congregations without hiding in fear, while pushing back against the belief of some that Jews everywhere should be held responsibile for the choices of the Israeli government. Tanya D. Davis talks with Andy Gordon, Rabbi of Bolton Street Synagogue, a politically-active Reform congregation, about his efforts to effect change in Israel. The conversation addresses the need for a two-state solution among a broader definition of Zionism that maintains as a requirement security for an autonomous Jewish state.