All Episodes

News - U.S.-Iran Talks Stall, Russia Nuclear Warning, Brazil Election w/ Alex Jordan

E268 - A Modern History of Assassination w/ Simon Ball

Bonus - The Struggle for Power in Libya w/ Wolfram Lacher (Preview)

News - Trump-Xi Summit, Iran Offers Hormuz Deal, Drones Near NATO Military Sites w/ Alex Jordan

E267 - Mutiny of the College-Educated Worker w/ Noam Scheiber

Bonus - American Politics After the 2024 Vibe Shift w/ David Wallace-Wells (Preview)

Unlocked: The War on Terror Comes to Comics w/ Spencer Ackerman

News - Houthis Escalate Red Sea Conflict, Pentagon Report on Iran War Costs, BRICS Summit Exposes Divisions

AP x NonZero - What’s Driving Dario? w/ Robert Wright

E266 - The Biden Administration’s Complicity in Gaza w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed

Bonus - The War on Terror Comes to Comics w/ Spencer Ackerman (Preview)

RE-POST: Rescue 9/11 w/ Jim Lobe and Laila Ujayli

News - Canada-US Trade War Escalates, Houthis Seize Yemeni Port, Report Says Netanyahu Ignored 10/7 Warnings

E265 - Texas’s Radical Roots w/ David Griscom

Bonus - Trump and the End of History w/ Lee Jones (Preview)

News - U.S.-Iran Fighting Resumes, Trump Claims U.S. Stake in Venezuela's Oil, Israel Moves Toward Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

E264 - Democracy’s Elite Problem w/ Hugo Drochon

Bonus - The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism w/ Matt McManus (Preview)

News - New US Sanctions on Iran, Syrian Democratic Forces Dissolve, US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse

E263 - North Korea’s Roots in Christianity w/ Jonathan Cheng

Bonus - The Oligarch-Authoritarian Bargain w/ Christopher Hartwell (Preview)

News - Israel Strikes Syria, Trump Escalates the Economic War on Iran, Potential US-North Korea Diplomacy

E262 - American Austerity in the Philippines w/ Lisandro Claudio

Bonus - The New History of Capitalism: A Critique w/ Corey Robin (Preview)

News — US-Iran Hormuz Standoff, Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey Alliance, Israeli Settlers Besiege West Bank Community

E261 - The History of the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple

Bonus - The Democratic Foreign Policy Cartel w/ Matt Duss (Preview)

News — Gaza Disarmament Agreement Collapses, Ceuta Migrant Crisis, Iran Nears Hormuz Deal

E260 - Imperialist Realism w/ Danny Bessner

Bonus - Ukraine's PR War w/ Mark Ames (Preview)

News — U.S.-Iran War Resumes, Sudanese Army Secures Kordofan Highway, Fujimori Takes Office in Peru

E259 - Who’s Allowed Self-Determination? w/ Brad Simpson

Bonus - The Real Odyssey w/ Joel Christensen (Preview)

News — Iran War Kills US Troops, US-Saudi Arabia Strike Nuclear Deal, Zelenskyy Fires Top General

E258 - How the New Deal Invented the National Security State w/ Andrew Preston

Bonus - The Right Takes Higher Ed w/ Ann Manov (Preview)

News - U.S. Resumes Iran War, DRC Ebola Outbreak Surges, Burnham Becomes UK PM

E257 - The Need for Responsible AI w/ Robert Wright

Bonus - Trump and the Religious Right w/ Matt Avery Sutton (Preview)

News - U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Collapses, Hamas Dissolves Gaza Government, Sudan’s El-Obeid Braces for RSF Assault

AP x NonZero - Iran, Israel, and the Future of US Power w/ Robert Wright

E256 - Rome and Ancient Iran w/ Jake Nabel

Bonus - A Left-Right Antiwar Alliance? w/ Curt Mills and Andrew Day (Preview)

Bonus - How the British Empire Lost America w/ Andrew Shankman

E255 - The History of Iran’s Nuclear Program w/ Sina Azodi

Bonus - American Politics at the End of Trumpism w/ Aziz Rana (Preview)

News - Iran Talks Advance, Starmer Resigns, Israel Targets Children in Gaza

E254 - How Zionism Failed w/ Omer Bartov

Bonus - Military Masculinity w/ Jasper Craven (Preview)

News - U.S.-Iran MoU Takes Effect, West Bank Settlement Expansion, Fujimori Leads Peru Election Count

E253 - Human Prehistory and How Societies Rise and Fall w/ Patrick Wyman

Special - The Iran Ceasefire (June 2026) (Preview)

Bonus - The World Cup in 2026 America w/ David Roth and Tom Ley

News - U.S. and Iran Exchange Fire, Pentagon Raises Israeli Spy Threat, Jihadist-Rebel Alliance Pressures Mali

E252 - Hondurasgate and U.S. Power in Latin America w/ José Luis Granados Ceja

Special - Iran Retaliates as Israel Escalates in Lebanon (Preview)

Bonus - Political Capitalism and Trumpism w/ Dylan John Riley (Preview)

News - U.S.-Iran Escalation, Israel Expands Lebanon Campaign, CIA Feuds With Intelligence Chief w/ Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay

Unlocked: The China Consensus and Trump's Xi Meeting w/ Jake Werner

E251 - Disneyland: Cold War Factory w/ Roland Betancourt

Special - U.S.-Iran Diplomacy and the War in Lebanon w/ Trita Parsi (Preview)

Bonus - Great Powers and the Multipolar World w/ Anusar Farooqui (Preview)

News - Israel Escalates Lebanon Strikes, Taiwan Arms Sale Stalls, Bolivia Protest Crackdown w/ Anthea Gordon

AP x NonZero - Trump’s Iran War Merry-Go-Round w/ Robert Wright

E250 - The Christian Right Weaponizing Scripture w/ John Fugelsang

Bonus - The Fallout From Ending USAID w/ Caitlin Tulloch (Preview)

News - Iran Talks Stall, Hezbollah Drones Limit IDF, Cuba Pretexts Build

E249 - Extraction Behind the Green Transition w/ Thea Riofrancos

Bonus - The China Consensus and Trump’s Xi Meeting w/ Jake Werner (Preview)

News - Trump-Xi Summit, Iran Ceasefire Breakdown, CIA Mexico Strike

E248 - Journalism in the Age of Oligarchy w/ David Sirota

Bonus - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mother of Failsons and Success Daughters w/ Eleanor Janega and Luke Waters (Preview)

Re-Post - Mother Mary’s Day w/ Eleanor Janega

News - Iran Talks Near Deal, Israel Ignores Ceasefires, Cuba Sanctions Expand

E247 - Radical Liberalism w/ Alex Zakaras

Bonus - After the Liberal International Order w/ Judah Grunstein (Preview)

News - Iran Talks Collapse, UAE Leaves OPEC, Mali Rebels Seize Kidal

E246 - Cold War Liberal Empire w/ Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes

Bonus - AI and Silicon Valley Reactionaries w/ Becca Lewis (Preview)

News - Iran Ceasefire Amid Blockade Standoff, Japan Arms Exports Expand, CIA Operatives Die in Mexico

E245 - Israeli Annexation in the West Bank w/ Oren Ziv

Bonus - Politics Without Power w/ Anton Jäger (Preview)

News - Lebanon Ceasefire, Orbán Loses Hungarian Election, Trump Prepares Cuba Incursion

AP x NonZero - Iran and the Demise of US Hegemony

E244 - The Party of Chaos w/ Paul Heideman

Special - The State of the Ceasefire (Preview)

Bonus - Star Wars, Empire, and the Politics of The Phantom Menace w/ Daniel Immerwahr (Preview)

News - Israel Bombs Lebanon, Iran Halts Hormuz Traffic, Orban Faces Election Defeat

Special - The Iran Ceasefire (Preview)

Why Marx Now? w/ Andrew Hartman

E243 - Europe, Iran, and the Transatlantic Relationship w/ Eldar Mamedov

Unlocked: Cuba, Economic Warfare, and the Democratic Party w/ Hasan Piker

Bonus - The Medievalist's Guide to Easter w/ Eleanor Janega (Preview)

News - Trump Extends Iran War, Israel Expands Lebanon Occupation, Russian Tanker Reaches Cuba

Special - Cuba, Economic Warfare, and the Democratic Party w/ Hasan Piker (Preview)

Marx Prestige, Episode 1: The Civil War and American Capitalism

Special - Iran’s Strategy in This War w/ Sina Azodi

Bonus - War Without Ideology w/ China Miéville and Richard Seymour (Preview)

Special - Israel’s War on Lebanon w/ Afeef Nessouli

AP x Radio War Nerd (Preview)

News - Russia Drone Barrage in Ukraine, West Bank Settler Violence, U.S. Destroys Ecuador Dairy Farm

Special - Iran War Update: Failed Diplomacy and Israeli Operations (Preview)

E242 - Israel’s War Consensus and Permanent Conflict w/ Udi Greenberg

Trailer: Marx Prestige

Bonus - AI Targeting in Modern War w/ Sam Biddle (Preview)

Special - Iran War: Strait of Hormuz, Regional Escalation, Casualty Figures (Preview)

News - Iran Assassinations Escalate, Israel Invades Southern Lebanon, U.S. Pressures Zambia Over Aid for Minerals

Special - How the War on Iran Is Breaking the Gulf w/ Annelle Sheline

E241 - How Iran Turns Into a Ground War w/ Harrison Mann

Special - Iran War Update: Kharg Island, Hormuz, and U.S. Escalation

Bonus - Strategic Bombing, Air Power, and the War with Iran w/ Robert Pape (Preview)

UNLOCKED: Special - Geopolitics, the Military, and the War in Iran w/ Spencer Ackerman

News - Iran War Escalation and Hormuz Crisis, U.S. Minab School Bombing Fallout, Sudan Drone Warfare

Special - International Law and the War on Iran w/ Maryam Jamshidi

Special - Tehran Fuel Depot Strike, Mojtaba Khamenei Succession, Oil Market Chaos (Preview)

E240 - Espionage and Empire in the Cold War w/ Alfred McCoy

Bonus - A Kurdish Front in the Iran War? w/ Djene Bajalan (Preview)

Special - War in the Gulf and the Global Economy w/ Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

Special – Iran War: Airstrikes Intensify, Oil Routes Choked, Lebanon Bombarded (Preview)

News - Iran War Widens, Afghanistan–Pakistan Fighting, New U.S. Operation in Ecuador

AP x NonZero - Trump's Gulf War

E239 - Iran and the End of Restraint w/ Trita Parsi and Akbar Shahid Ahmed

Special - Iran War: U.S. Jets Down, Gulf Oil Targeted, Lebanon Combat (Preview)

Special - Ayatollah Khamenei is Dead and the Iran War Spreads w/ Séamus Malekafzali (Preview)

Special - The U.S. and Israel Attack Iran (Preview)

News - Iran Talks Under Strike Threat, Mexico Cartel Killed, Pakistan Attack in Afghanistan

E238 - On the Brink with Iran w/ Dalia Dassa Kaye

Bonus - The SDF After Bashar Al-Assad w/ Alexander McKeever (Preview)

News - Iran War Threat, UN Report on Israel Ethnic Cleansing, U.S. Withdraws From Syria

E237 - Inside the American War Machine w/ Ben Freeman and William Hartung

Bonus - Homeland Empire and Trump 2.0 w/ Nikhil Pal Singh (Preview)

News - U.S.-Iran Talks, West Bank Rule Changes, Cuba Fuel Crisis

E236 - The Decline of Newsrooms w/ Borzou Daragahi

Bonus - Gaza’s “Ceasefire” and the Kushner Plan w/ Tariq Kenney-Shawa (Preview)

News - Iran Strike Delayed, Biden Suppressed Gaza Aid, Nigeria Militant Attack

The Nation’s “A Day for Gaza” w/ Jack Mirkinson

E235 - The End of the Postwar Consensus w/ Paul Starr

Bonus - The Decline of Area Experts w/ Alex Thurston (Preview)

News - U.S. Signals Possible Iran Strike, Myanmar Junta Consolidates Power, Syria Ceasefire Extended

E234 - The Rise of Shareholder Primacy w/ Sean Delehanty

Bonus - Davos 2026: Trump, Greenland, and the End of the Rules-Based Order w/ Ishaan Tharoor (Preview)

AP x NonZero - The Trump Foreign Policy Roller Coaster w/ Robert Wright

News - Syria Offensive Against SDF, Israel Moves on Rafah, Trump and Greenland

E233 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy

Bonus - Green Energy and Fossil Capital w/ Thea Riofrancos (Preview)

News – U.S. Plan for Venezuela’s Oil, Gaza Ceasefire Phase Two, Iran Protests w/ Matt Lech and Negar Mortazavi

E232 - Can American Power Be Redeemed? w/ Shadi Hamid

Bonus - Prediction Markets and the Financialization of Death w/ Sam Biddle and Jay Caspian Kang (Preview)

News - U.S. Kidnaps Maduro, Israel Escalation, Yemen Separatist Collapse

Re-Post - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ Stuart Schrader

E231 - Venezuela, Latin America, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy w/ Greg Grandin

Bonus - Regime Change in Venezuela w/ Gabriel Hetland (Preview)

Special - The U.S. Kidnaps Nicolás Maduro w/ Alex Jordan (Preview)

Bonus - Fort Bragg and U.S. Special Operations Post-9/11 w/ Seth Harp

E230 - Manosphere Politics and the Climate Crisis w/ Daniel Waite Penny

Bonus - Venezuela, the Drug War, and U.S. Power in the Caribbean w/ Aileen Teague (Preview)

Re-Post - The Medievalist's Guide to Christmas w/ Eleanor Janega

Bonus - The Muppet Christmas Carol w/ Justin Boyd and VJ Boyd (Preview)

E229 - Lula and the Rise of the Workers’ Party in Brazil w/ Andre Pagliarini

Bonus - Protests Without Politics w/ Vincent Bevins (Preview)

News - Thailand–Cambodia Fighting, Venezuela Escalation, Yemen Separatists

Special - Who Controls Southern Yemen? w/ Annelle Sheline

E228 - Trump’s National Security Strategy w/ Julia Gledhill and Van Jackson

UNLOCKED - The History of the Maccabees w/ Joseph Scales

Bonus - Managing Gaza After the “Ceasefire” w/ Rashid Khalidi (Preview)

AP x NonZero - Venezuela, China, and Trump’s Incoherence

News - Gaza Aid Blocked Amid Winter Storm, Thailand–Cambodia Conflict Resumes, M23 Advances in DRC

E227 - Sudan’s Endless War in Darfur and Beyond w/ Mat Nashed

Bonus - The Life and Death of Hollywood w/ Andrew deWaard (Preview)

Unlocked - Blowback: The Forgotten Cold War Front in Angola w/ Brendan James and Noah Kulwin

News - U.S. Moves Toward Venezuela Attack, Double-Tap Strike in Caribbean, DRC–Rwanda Peace Deal Collapses

E226 - The Political Economy of Porn w/ Molly Lambert

Bonus - Capitalism After Neoliberalism w/ Ilias Alami (Preview)