The Stream: Spring/Summer 2026 – Podcasts
PODCASTS Fela Kuti: Fear No Man Higher Ground Jad Abumrad traces the transformation of Fela Kuti from Western-trained musician to revolutionary artist. What begins as a search for identity becomes a confrontation with power, as Fela turns music into a vehicle for political resistance and creates Afrobeat along the way. Missing in the Amazon The Guardian A gripping investigative series into the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil’s Javari Valley. Reporter Tom Phillips follows the trail through a remote region of the Amazon, where environmental, political, and Indigenous rights collide Soft Power/FulStories Christopher Wurst...
The Stream: Spring/Summer 2026 – Streaming Video
STREAMING VIDEO Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare HBO This documentary revisits the 2011 Fukushima disaster and its lasting impact on communities, environment, and policy. Moving beyond the initial crisis, it looks at what recovery means years later through the lives of those living with its consequences. My Father and Qaddafi PBS / POV This film traces one family's connection to Libya through the legacy of Muammar Qaddafi. What begins as a personal search becomes a broader look at power, memory, and the long shadow of political rule. Everybody to Kenmure Street BBC This film captures a moment when residents in Glasgow...
The Stream: Spring/Summer 2026 – RPCV Book Reviews
RPCV BOOK REVIEWS FEATURED REVIEW We Called It a War by Sargent Shriver Shriver's posthumous memoir—written in 1960 but only recently rediscovered in the archives of the Shriver Peace Institute and edited for contemporary readers—offers a detailed account of the 1964–68 War on Poverty. The narrative illuminates Shriver's political acumen, details with equanimity his relationships with allies, adversaries, and leading figures of this time—most notably LBJ—and displays the strong spiritual fidelity with which he appears to have approached everything. Among the memorable anecdotes of his efforts to make a meaningful impact on poverty in the U.S. is one in which...
Notable
How to Start a Tribal Art Museum Justin D. Bibee, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco from 2014 to 2016, founded the Museum of Fine Tribal Art, a Rhode Island–based nonprofit established in 2025. The museum focuses on collecting, preserving, and sharing tribal art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum began as Bibee's personal collection and has since developed into a public initiative. It includes masks, textiles, sculptures, jewelry, and ceremonial objects representing a wide range of cultural traditions. The collection could be valued at up to $6 million, based on preliminary research. Without a permanent exhibition...
The Jeep Driver’s Son
In 2003, Sam Sidiqi boarded a bus in Kabul in his best suit, heading back to the village on the outskirts of the city where his family had deep roots and where his uncle worked as a teacher. He was on summer break from business school in the U.S., and had just finished his first day of volunteering at Afghanistan’s central bank. Even though he'd left Afghanistan when he was 11 months old, the bus ride back home somehow felt familiar. When a man on the bus looked at him and asked where he was going, Sidiqi told him he...
An Octopus Never Forgets
It took Gene Carl Feldman an hour to walk around the tiny Western Samoan island of Manono, where he received his Peace Corps training, but only if he politely refused the countless invitations he received to stop and eat at each and every home he passed. And most of those meals were either grown or raised on the island or caught in the nearby lagoon. Manono was Gene's 1974 training site. "As a 21-year-old kid from New York City, life on the island of Manono was far from anything that I had ever experienced." His favorite meal was fai'ai fe'e,...
Closing the Door to Humanitarian Immigration
Over the past year and a half, drastic changes in government policy have affected millions of immigrants living in the United States, as well as countless others who held hopes of entry. These developments have impacted not only those who aspired to study or work here, or secure greater opportunities for their families, but also refugees and asylum seekers—survivors of violence and persecution in their home countries, hoping to find safety here in the U.S. On the first day of his current term in office, Donald Trump initiated what the New York Times has called “the harshest crackdown on immigrants...
The Idea That Wouldn’t Die
Let’s face it: Peace Corps has seen better days. In the past year, six programs have announced closures or canceled cohorts, including South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia—a host country since 1962—and dozens of staff positions have been cut both at headquarters and abroad. The agency, once firmly independent, has seen the State Department and Congress pledge closer oversight. Recruitment is down, with more than half (55 percent) of available Volunteer placements going unfilled, compared with just 6 percent in 2019. But before we declare the end of JFK’s bold experiment, consider another truth in this 65-year story: Peace Corps has...
Hard Corps
A Domestic Version of Peace Corps In February 2026, Peace Corps announced the launch of its newest program: The Tech Prosperity Corps. This new service opportunity, which aims to facilitate international development and economic growth in Peace Corps host countries through the adoption of artificial intelligence, marks the latest example of Peace Corps’ continuing legacy today. In the decades since Peace Corps’ founding in 1961, its success has sparked a movement of service-based organizations, many of which have incorporated the word “corps” into their name. The word “corps” itself has long carried associations of shared mission, discipline, and collective identity....
The Advocate
When I graduated from college, I briefly considered joining Peace Corps. After some reflection, my decision was clear: “Spend two years living remotely in a foreign country? Absolutely not!” I could never have imagined that seven years later I would be on a tiny island in the Federated States of Micronesia starting service. Similarly, in 2003, when I was hired to help rebuild the advocacy program at the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), it would have been hard for me to foresee that I’d close out my career running NPCA’s advocacy efforts more than twenty years later, in 2026, having...