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Editor's Roundtable — 209 episodes

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The Spanish Fraud

2

Limit Migration to Save Migration

3

The Bombings the World Forgot

4

Talking to the Taliban

5

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

6

The Ghost of Smoot-Hawley

7

Why Was a Private Israeli Intel Firm Digging Up Dirt on This Former Obama Administration Official?

8

He Didn’t Know the Klan Handshake. It Almost Cost Him His Life.

9

Ordinary Iranians Will Suffer but Regime Insiders will Profit

10

‘It Could Have Led to a Nuclear War in the Middle East’

11

The Woman Who Defied Iran

12

When Ronnie Met Mikhail​

13

Peru’s National Identity Was Bound Up With Conflict and Corruption for Decades — Then It Qualified for the World Cup.

14

They Took the Children for a Bath and Never Brought Them Back

15

He Feared the CIA Would Delete a Document Detailing its Torture Program. So He Took It.

16

Stalin Falsified the Data, Then Killed the Statisticians

17

This American Visited North Korea’s Most Sensitive Nuclear Sites. What He Saw Blew His Mind.

18

Rohingyas Were Shot, Hacked With Machetes, and Then They Made for the Border

19

Why Was a Private Israeli Intel Agency Digging Up Dirt on This Former Obama Administration Official?

20

How To Haggle With a Dictator

21

The Untold Story of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995

22

The Road Ahead with North Korea

23

Reporter’s Notebook: Brazil’s Forgotten Children and Russia’s #MeToo Problem

24

What Comes Next in Syria?

25

Reporter’s Notebook: Germany’s Family Reunification Problem

26

How Far Will China Go?

27

The Double Life of Nikki Haley

28

Is Democracy Dying?

29

What to Expect From Talks With North Korea

30

The State Department's #MeToo Moment

31

The Strange Legal Journey of the Trump Dossier

32

Bonus Episode: Susan Glasser Joins the E.R. to Talk Trump, Russia and All Those Indictments

33

A Former Peace Negotiator Muses on Trump and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

34

The Mysterious Origins of a DHS Report Calling for Sunni Muslim Surveillance

35

How Far is Too Far for Israel’s Targeted Killings?

36

The Olympics on The E.R.: Figure Skater and Two-time Olympian Sasha Cohen Weighs in on Athletes and Mental Health, North Korea, and the “Olympic Truce”

37

The Olympics on The E.R.: What Can We Learn From Past Olympics Ahead of PyeongChang?

38

After ISIS

39

Meet the Godfather of Modern Counterinsurgency

40

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Beam Me Up, Santa" Edition

41

What Are Billionaires Doing to the Space Industry?

42

Meet the Unsung Codebreakers of the Second World War

43

Rational Security: The "When You’re President They Let You Do It" Edition

44

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Power of Delusional Thinking" Edition

45

What’s Next for the Middle East?

46

Spies, Lies and the Murder of a President

47

Among the Memes and YouTube Videos, What Do the Bin Laden Files Hold?

48

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "DMs on the DL" Edition

49

Trump’s Big Asian Adventure

50

The E.R. Presents: Lawfare and FP’s Bar Review Live

51

Can Anyone Stop the Tragedy in Myanmar — Before It’s Too Late?

52

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Million Dollars in Rugs" Edition

53

From Moscow to Havana: Secret Weapons and Diplomats

54

Can Libya Be Put Back Together?

55

Rational Security on The E.R.: The “How Many Elephants Make a Stampede” Edition

56

Tackling the FBI’s ‘Black Identity Extremists’ Designation

57

Rational Security on The E.R.: The “Decertified” Edition

58

So You Want to Be a Leaker?

59

Does Kaspersky Have Something to Hide?

60

Book Talk: Spy Schools

61

Europe Slams Its Gates (Part Two)

62

Rational Security on The E.R.: The “Moron” Edition

63

Europe Slams Its Gates-The Making of FP's Special Investigation

64

Is U.S. Immigration Policy Worse Than It’s Ever Been?

65

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Lady, You Can Drive Your Car" Edition

66

Who Is the Real Winner in Germany?

67

Staring Down the Barrel of Russia’s Big Guns

68

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Age of Flynnocence" Edition

69

Trump vs. The World

70

Inside Afghanistan’s Most Dangerous Corner

71

Rational Security on the E.R.: The “Boris and Natasha Buy a Facebook Ad” Edition

72

With Allies Like These

73

Where in the World Is Rex Tillerson?

74

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Hurricane Alley" Edition

75

About That Other Nuclear Threat...

76

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "No Morka" Edition

77

Where Is The Administration On Africa?

78

Rational Security on the E.R.: The "Everything Old is New Again" Edition

79

The Prince of Darkness Has Left the Building

80

Is There A Way Out Of Afghanistan?

81

The Object of McMaster’s Obsession

82

Are We Going to War with North Korea?

83

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Fire and Fury" Edition

84

Can Sessions Turn Off the Faucet?

85

Can Anyone Save Venezuela?

86

Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Send In the Adults" Edition

87

Morale Takes a Nosedive at State Department

88

Rational Security on the E.R.: The "Beleaguered" Edition

89

Six Months Of Trump Foreign Policy--The Good, The Bad, and the Downright Mystifying

90

Trump’s Bigly Plan to Be Better at ‘the Cyber’

91

Rational Security on the E.R.: The "Wray of Sunshine" Edition

92

Is Trump Jr.’s Meeting Evidence of a Conspiracy or a Circus?

93

Is This the End of ISIS?

94

Rational Security On The E.R.: The "Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue" Edition

95

Trump, Putin, and the G20

96

Rational Security On The E.R.: The Smoke and the Gun

97

The Russia Investigation Takes Another Twist

98

Book Talk: The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight.

99

The Showdown in the Gulf Gets Nasty

100

Can Trump End the Never-Ending War?

101

Is Trump Preparing For a Conflict With Iran?

102

Book Talk: Are the United States and China Destined for War?

103

Is Kim Jong Un Ready to Talk to Donald Trump?

104

Comey, Sessions, and the Barrage of the Russia Investigation

105

Book Talk Part II: Can the U.S. Government Survive Nuclear War?

106

Book Talk: How the U.S. Government Plans to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die

107

Has the U.S. Lost All Credibility on the International Stage?

108

Was Trump’s Trip to Europe a Total Disaster?

109

Book Talk, Part II: Churchill & Orwell and the Fight for Freedom

110

Book Talk: Tom Ricks on Churchill and Orwell in the Age of Trump

111

Is There Anything Normal About the Firing of James Comey?

112

The European Union Just Squeaked By

113

Trump Takes the Global Stage

114

Clean Up on the Foreign-Policy Aisle

115

Trump’s 100-Day Theater

116

Deciphering the French Election Results and Trump’s 100 Days

117

Book Talk: The Great Questions of Tomorrow

118

Book Talk: The Retreat of Western Liberalism

119

The Power of the Arts

120

How Will We Choose to Leave our Earth for Future Generations?

121

Get Ready for a ‘Very Difficult’ Trump-Xi Summit

122

Nice Doing Business With You, Moscow

123

Has Moscow Already Taken Down the Trump Administration?

124

Book Talk, Part II: “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf”

125

Book Talk: “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf”

126

Are We on the Verge of a Full-On Trade War With China?

127

‘The President is Aware’

128

Behind the Latest WikiLeaks Dump: New News?

129

The Middle East Welcomes Trump, Warily

130

Is Russia Running Circles Around the United States?

131

And the Oscar Goes To…

132

Has America Become a Reality Show?

133

Trump vs. The Bureaucracy

134

How Long Until Trump’s First War?

135

Trump and the ‘War on Truth’

136

What You’ve Been Missing Following Trump’s Every Tweet

137

But Mattis, but the World, but the Law, but Bureaucracy…

138

A Tale of a Very Messy Trump Transition

139

Welcome to President Trump’s (Un)Ethical World

140

Life in the Post-Truth World

141

It’s the End of the World as We Know It

142

Why We Should Remain Optimistic in 2017

143

The Best Things of 2016

144

The Worst Things of 2016

145

Trump’s Four-Star Friends

146

On Digital Diplomacy, Empowering Citizens Globally, and AI

147

Entering into the Era of the Unknown

148

Hitting the Reset Button on International Order

149

Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet a Cause for Concern?

150

After One Week with President-elect Donald Trump, What Do We Really Know?

151

Can President Trump Undo Obama’s Legacy?

152

How To Survive a Trump Hangover

153

The News We’re Missing Because of the U.S. Presidential Election

154

Battlegrounds: The Fight for Mosul and Election Day Disruptions

155

Could America Get Even Uglier?

156

How Much Did the Second Debate Change the Race for the Oval Office?

157

How Much Can Russia Mess With the U.S. Elections?

158

Obama, Syria, and the Missed Opportunities of UNGA 2016

159

Syria Is Now Everyone’s War

160

Back to Escuela with Trump and Obama

161

What Is ‘War’ Anymore?

162

Is It Too Early to Call the Election for Hillary Clinton?

163

How Chekhov Explains the Republican Revolt Against Trump

164

What Does Expanding the Definition of War Mean for the U.S. Military?

165

Is Trump Putin’s ‘Guy’?

166

What Will It Take to Keep China From Behaving Badly in the South China Sea?

167

Do Trump, Turkey, and Brexit Signal a Shift Toward Chaos?

168

The World After the Iran Deal: Better or Worse?

169

Is Globalization to Blame for Brexit?

170

The End of Eras: Donald Trump and the TPP

171

What Policies Should Decide the Presidential Election?

172

The Future History of Obama’s Foreign Policy

173

The Collapse of the Political Middle

174

The United States of Politically Crazy

175

The Case for Electing a President Who Knows How to Fail

176

The Washington Insider Who Believes He’s an Outsider

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177

Examining Sy-raq

178

Should Britain Stay, or Should It Go?

179

Is Brazil the Chicago of Latin America?

180

Defending Donald Trump … Again?

181

Not to Defend Donald Trump, but…

182

Is Obama Too Thoughtful for His Own Good?

183

Who Would Bibi Vote for?

184

Is Cuba Really a Triumph for Obama?

185

Let the Judging of the Obama Administration Begin

186

Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Is Not a Real Revolution

187

The Future of Putin’s Russia and the Syria Dilemma

188

Saving Syria at the 11th Hour

189

The Tension Between Political Will and Political Power

190

Why Is the United States More Afraid of the Islamic State Than Russia?

191

Newscast: What Looms on the 2016 Horizon

192

The Truth About Davos

193

2015, in Hindsight

194

Here’s Looking at You, 2016

195

On Trump, the GOP, and Muslim Refugees

196

The Power of Love, Etc.

197

Does the United States Have a Gun Problem or a Terrorism Problem?

198

Rating the U.S. Reaction to Terrorist Attacks

199

How Is the War on Terror Like the War on Drugs?

200

How to Reboot America’s Global Influence

201

Which International Architecture Rules the World?

202

Do Your Generals Speak Economics?

203

It’s Time the U.S. Military Reinvented Itself to Operate in the Information Age

204

‘We Fail Better’ Should Not Be the Motto of the U.S. Military

205

Cyberoffense, Deterrence, and the Dawn of a New Era of War

206

Living in the Aftermath of the Iran Deal

207

Who’s the Most Successful One of All? Rating the World’s Leaders.

208

If the World Is So Dangerous, How Come So Few of the 2016 Candidates Really Know Anything About It?

209

American Power at a Crossroads