Hosted by Andy Heintz · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 22 episodes
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The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz is a podcast about global politics that features news analysis, opinion and interviews with intellectuals, academics, civil-society leaders and activists in different countries. The Deep Dive seeks to center the lived experiences of people on the ground rather than solely focusing on great power geopolitical intrigue from above. It seeks to promote universalism, democracy, human rights and grassroots democracy from the below. The Deep Dive seeks to plumb the depths rather than skimming the surface of issues. It strives to embrace complexity with humility.
Andy Heintz hosts The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz, a news show with 22 episodes published.
This podcast episode examines the heartbreaking, horrifying and entirely preventable human consequences caused by the Trump administration's decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development, a
In this podcast episode, I discuss why the term Western Civilization is not only problematic, but also an obstacle to understanding the world and solving the some of the thorniest political issues facing us today. Whethe
This episode features Part one of an interview I conducted with Kwame Anthony Appiah on March 29, 2025. Anthony is an author, intellectual, philosopher and writer. He writes The Ethicist column for the New York Times and
This episode is meant to raise awareness and call for more international action to assist and empower the Rohingya, a ethnic Muslim minority whose ancestral home is the Rakhine State, a western state in Myanmar, formerly
This episode features an interview I recorded with documentary photographer Simone Rudolphi on August 9, 2024. Simone discussed her time interning for renowned photographer, writer and activist Shahidul Alam in Banglades
This episode was recorded on May 4, 2025, and it features an interview I conducted with writer, author and intellectual Michael Walzer on September 8, 2024. Michael discusses his views on the war in Gaza, and his critiqu
This is an interview I conducted with veteran journalist Bill Weinberg on April 23, 2025. Bill is an author, journalist and blogger. He is the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico and War o
This episode features an interview I conducted with Maryam Namazie that was recorded on September 17, 2024. Maryam is an Iranian-born human rights activist, free speech advocate, women's rights activist and blogger. She
This podcast includes my thoughts about why small acts of empathy and compassion combined with nonviolent protest are key to pushing back against the cruelty and nihilism of the Trump administration.
This podcast is about the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23's seizure of Goma -- the largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo -- on January 27, 2025. It discusses the origins of M23 and the humanitarian disas
In Part 2 of my interview Pervez Hoodbhoy, he discusses and proposes solutions to some of Pakistan's biggest problems including settling the Kashmir issue with India, the need for education reform, and creating a more eg
In this episode, author, media commentator, intellectual and nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy discusses thebiggest problemsfacing Pakistan, and how religious persecution and the exploitation of the general public is bui
This episode will feature an interview I conducted with my friend Hayley Rauzi on June 9, 2024. During the interview, Hayley talks about refugee policies in my home state of Iowa and in the United States in general. Hayl
This episode of the Deep Dive features Part 2 of my interview with Maria Gonzalez-Alvarez, which was conducted on July 4, 2024. Maria is a community organizer for the Des Moines-based Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice an
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out mass deportations when he returns to the White House in January 2025. Trump has already nominated immigration hardliners like Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and South Dak
This monologue is meant to highlight and support the inspiring social movements that exist in Sudan especially the youth-driven Neighborhood Resistance Committees that helped lead to the ouster of long-time dictator Omar
In this episode, I talk with Joa LaVille, co-founder of Immigrant Allies in Marshalltown, Iowa. Marshalltown has a population of about 28,000 people including a large Latino population that has enriched the city with res
This is a monologue I recorded before Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the U.S. Presidential elections on November 5, 2024. Given the ugly and scandalously dishonest rhetoric deployed by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance an
In Part 2 of the interview I conducted with Simon Rodriguez-Porras, we discuss the importance of a consistent and principled international Left that opposes imperialism in all its forms no matter who is the perpetrator a
In this episode of the Deep Divide with Andy Heintz, I talk with Simon Rodriguez-Porras. Simon is the author of "Why Did Chavismo Fail". He also is an editor at Venezuelan voices.org and a writer for the New Arab. In the
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