Does the UN have a future?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice about the relevance of the United Nations in 2026. Transcript JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Juana Summers in Washington.MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And I'm Mary Louise Kelly at the headquarters of the United Nations. I'm standing, actually, looking up at the U.N. flag flapping in the wind above us. It is sky blue, the U.N. emblem in the middle of it in white. And the U.N. emblem, of course, is a map of the world with a pair of olive branches around it, symbol of peace. It's got me thinking back to 1945, October 1945, and the founding of the U.N. The whole point was to try to maintain peace, maintain international security. Leaders were trying to figure out, how do we prevent another world war like the one we just lived through?Well, you can stand here now. There's protesters on one side of the street, democracy in action. You can watch diplomats streaming in the entrance gates on my other side, gathering for this year's General Assembly. And you can wonder, did the experiment work out? And is the U.N. still relevant?We've got an American diplomat who spen...