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Editor's Roundtable — 210 episodes
The Spanish Fraud
Limit Migration to Save Migration
The Bombings the World Forgot
Talking to the Taliban
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
The Ghost of Smoot-Hawley
Why Was a Private Israeli Intel Firm Digging Up Dirt on This Former Obama Administration Official?
He Didn’t Know the Klan Handshake. It Almost Cost Him His Life.
Ordinary Iranians Will Suffer but Regime Insiders will Profit
The Ghost of Smoot-Hawley
‘It Could Have Led to a Nuclear War in the Middle East’
The Woman Who Defied Iran
When Ronnie Met Mikhail
Peru’s National Identity Was Bound Up With Conflict and Corruption for Decades — Then It Qualified for the World Cup.
They Took the Children for a Bath and Never Brought Them Back
He Feared the CIA Would Delete a Document Detailing its Torture Program. So He Took It.
Stalin Falsified the Data, Then Killed the Statisticians
This American Visited North Korea’s Most Sensitive Nuclear Sites. What He Saw Blew His Mind.
Rohingyas Were Shot, Hacked With Machetes, and Then They Made for the Border
Why Was a Private Israeli Intel Agency Digging Up Dirt on This Former Obama Administration Official?
How To Haggle With a Dictator
The Untold Story of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995
The Road Ahead with North Korea
Reporter’s Notebook: Brazil’s Forgotten Children and Russia’s #MeToo Problem
What Comes Next in Syria?
Reporter’s Notebook: Germany’s Family Reunification Problem
How Far Will China Go?
The Double Life of Nikki Haley
Is Democracy Dying?
What to Expect From Talks With North Korea
The State Department's #MeToo Moment
The Strange Legal Journey of the Trump Dossier
Bonus Episode: Susan Glasser Joins the E.R. to Talk Trump, Russia and All Those Indictments
A Former Peace Negotiator Muses on Trump and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
The Mysterious Origins of a DHS Report Calling for Sunni Muslim Surveillance
How Far is Too Far for Israel’s Targeted Killings?
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”
The Olympics on The E.R.: What Can We Learn From Past Olympics Ahead of PyeongChang?
After ISIS
Meet the Godfather of Modern Counterinsurgency
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Beam Me Up, Santa" Edition
What Are Billionaires Doing to the Space Industry?
Meet the Unsung Codebreakers of the Second World War
Rational Security: The "When You’re President They Let You Do It" Edition
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Power of Delusional Thinking" Edition
What’s Next for the Middle East?
Spies, Lies and the Murder of a President
Among the Memes and YouTube Videos, What Do the Bin Laden Files Hold?
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "DMs on the DL" Edition
Trump’s Big Asian Adventure
The E.R. Presents: Lawfare and FP’s Bar Review Live
Can Anyone Stop the Tragedy in Myanmar — Before It’s Too Late?
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Million Dollars in Rugs" Edition
From Moscow to Havana: Secret Weapons and Diplomats
Can Libya Be Put Back Together?
Rational Security on The E.R.: The “How Many Elephants Make a Stampede” Edition
Tackling the FBI’s ‘Black Identity Extremists’ Designation
Rational Security on The E.R.: The “Decertified” Edition
So You Want to Be a Leaker?
Does Kaspersky Have Something to Hide?
Book Talk: Spy Schools
Europe Slams Its Gates (Part Two)
Rational Security on The E.R.: The “Moron” Edition
Europe Slams Its Gates-The Making of FP's Special Investigation
Is U.S. Immigration Policy Worse Than It’s Ever Been?
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Lady, You Can Drive Your Car" Edition
Who Is the Real Winner in Germany?
Staring Down the Barrel of Russia’s Big Guns
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Age of Flynnocence" Edition
Trump vs. The World
Inside Afghanistan’s Most Dangerous Corner
Rational Security on the E.R.: The “Boris and Natasha Buy a Facebook Ad” Edition
With Allies Like These
Where in the World Is Rex Tillerson?
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Hurricane Alley" Edition
About That Other Nuclear Threat...
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "No Morka" Edition
Where Is The Administration On Africa?
Rational Security on the E.R.: The "Everything Old is New Again" Edition
The Prince of Darkness Has Left the Building
Is There A Way Out Of Afghanistan?
The Object of McMaster’s Obsession
Are We Going to War with North Korea?
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Fire and Fury" Edition
Can Sessions Turn Off the Faucet?
Can Anyone Save Venezuela?
Rational Security on The E.R.: The "Send In the Adults" Edition
Morale Takes a Nosedive at State Department
Rational Security on the E.R.: The "Beleaguered" Edition
Six Months Of Trump Foreign Policy--The Good, The Bad, and the Downright Mystifying
Trump’s Bigly Plan to Be Better at ‘the Cyber’
Rational Security on the E.R.: The "Wray of Sunshine" Edition
Is Trump Jr.’s Meeting Evidence of a Conspiracy or a Circus?
Is This the End of ISIS?
Rational Security On The E.R.: The "Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue" Edition
Trump, Putin, and the G20
Rational Security On The E.R.: The Smoke and the Gun
The Russia Investigation Takes Another Twist
Book Talk: The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight.
The Showdown in the Gulf Gets Nasty
Can Trump End the Never-Ending War?
Is Trump Preparing For a Conflict With Iran?
Book Talk: Are the United States and China Destined for War?
Is Kim Jong Un Ready to Talk to Donald Trump?
Comey, Sessions, and the Barrage of the Russia Investigation
Book Talk Part II: Can the U.S. Government Survive Nuclear War?
Book Talk: How the U.S. Government Plans to Save Itself While the Rest of Us Die
Has the U.S. Lost All Credibility on the International Stage?
Was Trump’s Trip to Europe a Total Disaster?
Book Talk, Part II: Churchill & Orwell and the Fight for Freedom
Book Talk: Tom Ricks on Churchill and Orwell in the Age of Trump
Is There Anything Normal About the Firing of James Comey?
The European Union Just Squeaked By
Trump Takes the Global Stage
Clean Up on the Foreign-Policy Aisle
Trump’s 100-Day Theater
Deciphering the French Election Results and Trump’s 100 Days
Book Talk: The Great Questions of Tomorrow
Book Talk: The Retreat of Western Liberalism
The Power of the Arts
How Will We Choose to Leave our Earth for Future Generations?
Get Ready for a ‘Very Difficult’ Trump-Xi Summit
Nice Doing Business With You, Moscow
Has Moscow Already Taken Down the Trump Administration?
Book Talk, Part II: “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf”
Book Talk: “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf”
Are We on the Verge of a Full-On Trade War With China?
‘The President is Aware’
Behind the Latest WikiLeaks Dump: New News?
The Middle East Welcomes Trump, Warily
Is Russia Running Circles Around the United States?
And the Oscar Goes To…
Has America Become a Reality Show?
Trump vs. The Bureaucracy
How Long Until Trump’s First War?
Trump and the ‘War on Truth’
What You’ve Been Missing Following Trump’s Every Tweet
But Mattis, but the World, but the Law, but Bureaucracy…
A Tale of a Very Messy Trump Transition
Welcome to President Trump’s (Un)Ethical World
Life in the Post-Truth World
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Why We Should Remain Optimistic in 2017
The Best Things of 2016
The Worst Things of 2016
Trump’s Four-Star Friends
On Digital Diplomacy, Empowering Citizens Globally, and AI
Entering into the Era of the Unknown
Hitting the Reset Button on International Order
Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet a Cause for Concern?
After One Week with President-elect Donald Trump, What Do We Really Know?
Can President Trump Undo Obama’s Legacy?
How To Survive a Trump Hangover
The News We’re Missing Because of the U.S. Presidential Election
Battlegrounds: The Fight for Mosul and Election Day Disruptions
Could America Get Even Uglier?
How Much Did the Second Debate Change the Race for the Oval Office?
How Much Can Russia Mess With the U.S. Elections?
Obama, Syria, and the Missed Opportunities of UNGA 2016
Syria Is Now Everyone’s War
Back to Escuela with Trump and Obama
What Is ‘War’ Anymore?
Is It Too Early to Call the Election for Hillary Clinton?
How Chekhov Explains the Republican Revolt Against Trump
What Does Expanding the Definition of War Mean for the U.S. Military?
Is Trump Putin’s ‘Guy’?
What Will It Take to Keep China From Behaving Badly in the South China Sea?
Do Trump, Turkey, and Brexit Signal a Shift Toward Chaos?
The World After the Iran Deal: Better or Worse?
Is Globalization to Blame for Brexit?
The End of Eras: Donald Trump and the TPP
What Policies Should Decide the Presidential Election?
The Future History of Obama’s Foreign Policy
The Collapse of the Political Middle
The United States of Politically Crazy
The Case for Electing a President Who Knows How to Fail
The Washington Insider Who Believes He’s an Outsider
EExamining Sy-raq
Should Britain Stay, or Should It Go?
Is Brazil the Chicago of Latin America?
Defending Donald Trump … Again?
Not to Defend Donald Trump, but…
Is Obama Too Thoughtful for His Own Good?
Who Would Bibi Vote for?
Is Cuba Really a Triumph for Obama?
Let the Judging of the Obama Administration Begin
Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Is Not a Real Revolution
The Future of Putin’s Russia and the Syria Dilemma
Saving Syria at the 11th Hour
The Tension Between Political Will and Political Power
Why Is the United States More Afraid of the Islamic State Than Russia?
Newscast: What Looms on the 2016 Horizon
The Truth About Davos
2015, in Hindsight
Here’s Looking at You, 2016
On Trump, the GOP, and Muslim Refugees
The Power of Love, Etc.
Does the United States Have a Gun Problem or a Terrorism Problem?
Rating the U.S. Reaction to Terrorist Attacks
How Is the War on Terror Like the War on Drugs?
How to Reboot America’s Global Influence
Which International Architecture Rules the World?
Do Your Generals Speak Economics?
It’s Time the U.S. Military Reinvented Itself to Operate in the Information Age
‘We Fail Better’ Should Not Be the Motto of the U.S. Military
Cyberoffense, Deterrence, and the Dawn of a New Era of War
Living in the Aftermath of the Iran Deal
Who’s the Most Successful One of All? Rating the World’s Leaders.
If the World Is So Dangerous, How Come So Few of the 2016 Candidates Really Know Anything About It?
American Power at a Crossroads