All Episodes
Angry Planet — 258 episodes
Iran Won Because America Is Stuck in the ‘Smart Bomb Trap’
Navigating Reality and War During the Age of AI Propaganda
Christianity Shaped North Korea’s Cult of Personality
Making the Case America Was Winning in Iran
Neutralizing Iran’s Nuclear Material During a War Is ‘Nearly Mission Impossible’
The ‘AI as Nuclear Weapons’ Obsession
A Killer True Crime Fandom & Islamic State’s Digital Caliphate
When Americans Became ‘Splendid Liberators’
Puffins, Zyn, and ‘Polar War’
Online Culture Is the Whole Culture
How We Thought the First Year Would Go
On Spectacles of Cruelty
Google’s Former CEO Is Dancing in Ukraine
‘Capitalism Is a Series of Regime Changes’
The US Government’s AI Grand Bargain
Deadwood: The Town that Made the Wild West
Learning to Love the Stagnant Order
‘Goliath’s Curse’ and the Surprising Benefits of Societal Collapse
Yes, US Strikes On Alleged Drug Traffickers Are Illegal. That Won’t Stop Them
Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up
Assassinations Are Shitposts Now
The War On Terror on Drugs
Traveling America’s ‘Murderland’
After Xi
Does the U.S. Need an Independent Cyber Force?
Hunting Nazis Online With Canadian Journalists
How Many Nukes Does It Take to Win a War? (Trick Question)
A History of the Iranian Nuclear Program
Talking With the Military Ethics Professor Who Resigned in Protest
The Iran Strikes Beg the Question: What Is Airpower For?
Libya, China, and the Outlaw Ocean
Silicon Valley Wants ‘More Everything Forever’
America’s Favorite Gunfighters and the Birth of the Old West
The Horror of AI Generals Making Command Decisions
America’s Pivot to the Pacific
India and Pakistan: Nuclear Neighbors on the Brink
Donald Trump Wants to Divide Up the World With His ‘Friends’
Why An Empire Eats
Erdogan’s Path to Pure Authoritarianism
Immigration Policy As Defense Policy
Life Inside Wagner Before and After Prigozhin
The Cult of Rationalism in Silicon Valley
How Israel Is Using Microsoft AI to Pick Targets in Gaza
Welcome to the Nerd Reich
The American Iron Dome Is an Expensive Boondoggle That Won’t Work
The End of U.S. Soft Power
Lost Episode: ‘Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World’
Pete Hegseth and the Surreal World of the Civ-Mil Divide With Phil Klay
‘Putin’s Revenge.’ Lucian Kim on Why Russia Invaded Ukraine
Syria, Authoritarianism, and U.S. Politics
A Crash Course on Indian Assassinations and ISIS in Canada
U.S. Defense Contractors Are Using ‘Battle Tested in Ukraine’ As a Marketing Label
North Korea and Russia—A Very Special Relationship
Don't Fall for Donald the Dove
A Calm Conversation About Israeli Settlements and Blame vs Responsibility
Stephanie Baker on ‘Punishing Putin’
King Arthur at the End of the World
Yaakov Katz on Israel's Invasion Of Lebanon
Tracer Burnout and Growing Up in the U.S. Military
Angry Planet's Resident Zionist Reckons With the Brutal Reality of Arab Life in Israel
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Assassinations
Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein
How Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon
On Presidential Assassins and the RNC With Rick Perlstein
So What Happens to SEAL Team 6 If They Do Assassinations for the President?
The Hard Limits of Cyber War and Subversion Operations
Inside the Congressional Nuclear Bunker
TEASER: Getting Away With Murder in Texas
How to Count Nuclear Weapons
TEASER: Checking In On the Online Nazis With Jason Wilson
The FBI’s Chat App and the Biggest Sting Operation In History
Ships: America Doesn't Build Them Like It Used To (Or at All)
TEASER: The Case for World War III Breaking Out This Summer
The Horrors Behind Your Frozen Shrimp
TEASER: Russian Murderers Who Go to War and Come Home to Kill Again
Americans in Ukraine Looking for ‘Daybreak’
An Insider's Critique of Israel
TEASER: Crawl Out Through the ‘Fallout’
What Happens to the World When China and the U.S. ‘Face Off’?
The Origins of Haiti’s Gangs and What Comes Next
TEASER: Haiti. Life in Empire's Shadow
TEASER: The Shockingly Sophisticated Arsenal of the Houthis
How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine
TEASER: War Literature as Culture War Fodder
Nuclear War and Imagining the Unimaginable
What Would an End Game Look Like in Gaza?
America’s Fight in the Red Sea
It’s Time to Retire the Term ‘Proxy War’
Can You Fight a Moral War in a Tight Space?
Ore Is the New Oil
How Ukraine Wins
One Year Reporting in Russia
A Throw of the Dice: Games the Pentagon Plays
What, Exactly, Is the Military Industrial Complex?
The Movie That Scared Ronald Reagan Into Nuclear Détente
How Tom Clancy Explains America
Ever More War: A Conflict Without End
What It's Like to Work in a Gazan Hospital
AI and Propaganda in the Israel-Hamas War
Causes and Consequences of War In Gaza
A First Take on the Situation in Gaza
A Righteous Conversation About Mark Milley
The UN's Annual Circus Comes to Town
The Saddam Hussein of the Caucasus
The Climate Doomer Episode
Fire Made Maui Look Like a War Zone
The Cost of Africa's Latest Coup
What Modern Genocide Looks Like
The Science and Terror of Nuclear Weapons
What Makes 'Oppenheimer' Great and Why It Sucks
The Support System That Keeps Ukraine Going
TEASER: Inside Putin's Medieval Court
A Closer Look at the Wagner Mutiny
The Human Stories Behind the Counteroffensive
Teaser: Why Erdogan Feels Like Forever
World War II Is Still Killing People in the Pacific
Mega Prisons and Bitcoin in El Salvador
Talking Turkey Ahead of the Vote
Teaser: Why UAPs Are So Hard to Talk About
Why War Never Changes
How a 21-Year-Old Edgelord Stole Pentagon Secrets
Why the West Loves 'ISIS Brides'
Reagan's Failed Attempt to Put Lasers in Space
Russia's Fascist Youth Groups
The Drones Above Ukraine
Ukraine: Back to the Front One Year On
What's a Planet Worth?
50 Years Since the Draft
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a ... Balloon?
The Rise of South Korea
The Complexities of China's Liberal Nationalism
What a War Game Tells Us About Taiwan
The Long Weird History of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
Israel's New Coalition from Hell
The Wagner Group Gives Putin Implausible Deniability
The Precarious Nature of Being Jewish
Talking Russia with the CIA's Former Eurasian Bureau Chief
The History of 'Putin's Wars'
ICYMI: A Timothy Snyder Double Feature
The Pentagon's Scary New Nuclear Plan
Likewar and the Weird National Security Implications of Musk's Twitter Takeover
Why We Have to Care About Elon Musk
The Second American Civil War Is (Not) Coming
Drinking With the Russians Who Fled to Georgia
Iran's Cycle of Protest and Suppression
The Report the U.N. Didn't Want You to See
How Ukraine Routed the Russian Military
A Classical View of the Afghan Collapse
Steve Inskeep Is Back From Afghanistan
When Soldiers Tell the Pentagon That It's Wrong
When War Became a Crime
Who Is Viktor Bout?
Ukraine's Alamo: The Siege of Azovstal
Biden in Jerusalem
ICYMI: The Origins of Russia's War in Ukraine
ICYMI: The Roots of Political Violence
The Hooligans Fighting for Ukraine
On the Frontlines of Ukraine and a Roe Reaction in Real Time
Proud Boys, January 6, and When a U-Haul Is a Clown Car
The Dream of the Kurds Is Alive and in Danger
We All Believe Conspiracy Theories
When the Battlefield Is the Home Front
SPONSORED: The Mega-Tank of the Future
Checking In With The White House's New Disinformation Czar
Will There Be a Nuclear War?
"America Is an Idealist Power in a Reapolitik World"
Bucha, Chechnya, and Russian War Crimes
You're Wrong. Tanks Aren't Done Yet
Russia and the West's Love/Hate History
Eastern Europe's Fascist Salad
UNLOCKED: Coping in the New Age of Nuclear Anxiety
What's Behind Putin's Nazi Bullshit
What the War Means for Russia
Russia's War in Ukraine Isn't Going to Plan
A Brief Apology and a Discussion of Sanctions
Russia and China Aren’t BFFs
The Weird Way Americans Talk About Ukraine As War Looms
It's Later Than You think. The Doomsday Clock at 75
Putin, Ukraine, and Russia's Daddy Issues
Why People Online Defend the Uighur Genocide
Inside Africa's ISIS Franchises
A War for the Former Soviet Union
ICYMI: Taliban Memories
ICYMI: Fake Journalists Are the Latest Disinformation Twist
Booze, Bribes, and Prostitutes: How Fat Leonard Seduced the U.S. Navy
How Assad Clings to Power
ICYMI: The Air Force's Chicken Gun
Ukraine on the Brink
UNLOCKED: Inside Europe’s 3D Printed Gun Scene
How Militaries Camouflage Their Carbon Emissions
Hawaii's Place at the Crossroads of Empire
Patrolling the Seven Seas Isn't Cheap
How 9/11 Led to a 'Reign of Terror'
ISIS-K Is Coming For the Taliban
Is North Korea a Hypersonic Threat?
Why Criminals Post Evidence on Instagram
UNLOCKED: The Drones of the Vietnam War
America's Liaison to the Taliban on What Went Wrong
Space: Final Frontier or Billionaire's Playground?
A Brief History of Lying About Afghanistan
When the Soviets Fled Afghanistan
UNLOCKED: America's Moral Duty to Afghan Interpreters
Rome Was Always in Decline
On the Assassination of Haiti's President
Lies, Damn Lies, and the Alamo
The View From Kabul
Can the US Win the Wars of the Future?
Can an Apolitical Military Survive Democracy's Crisis?
One Place, Two Peoples
'Homegrown Hate' and the Modern Crusades
ICYMI: This Is (Not) Sparta!
UNLOCKED: The Failure of McDonald's Peace Theory
Antifa's Car Brigades
What Is Happening in Jerusalem Right Now?
Ukraine in the Crosshairs
Comics, Garth Ennis, and the Golden Age of Tanks
Taliban Memories
How 'The Daughters of Kobani' Defeated ISIS
Tacticool Girlfriend Explains Why America Loves Guns
The Fish Wars Are Coming
UNLOCKED: Syria, Chemical Weapons, and Crossing the Red Line
What's 'The Deal' With Iran's Nukes?
Welcome to the Angry Ocean
COVID, Extremists, and Readiness: How Is the U.S. Military?
How 9/11 Changed the British Military
How the Iran-Iraq War Shaped the Modern World
Service Without a Smile: A History of the Draft
Why Navalny Went Back to Russia
TEASER: The Cold War Conspiracy That Shaped the Modern GOP
Spartans, Confederates, and the Cult of the Loser
Turning QAnon QAnoff
Free Speech Vs. the Big Lie
Democracy on the Run in Belarus
UNLOCKED: How 3D Printed Guns Will Rewrite Our Laws
ICYMI: The Highs and Lows of U.S. Special Operations Forces
The Life and Death of Iran's Shadow Commander
The Lingering Aftertaste of Fascism
A Journey into the Jungles of ‘Pulp Vietnam’
Fragility, War, Genocide and Climate Change
Looking for Crime in All the Wrong Places
TEASER: How Music Videos Explain the War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan
The Man Who Navigated the End of History
America Is Losing the Information War
TEASER: The Care and Feeding of a Republic
Proud Boys, the Boogaloo, and Everything in Between
How Reagan Made Us the Armaggedon Generation
TEASER: The Military Needs Gamers
War, Death, and Financial Collapse in the Middle East
What the Hell Is Going on at Fort Hood?
TEASER: How 3D Printed Guns Will Rewrite Our Laws
Beirut Wants to do More Than Survive
Syria, Russia, and Iran’s Complicated Relationship
Why the U.S. May Come Out on Top Against China
What it’s Like to Spend 30 Years As a Journalist in Turkey
When Mere Anarchy Was Loosed Upon Seattle
Why China and India are Fighting With Clubs
The Entire History of Russia in One Hour
On the Frontlines of the Battle of Portland