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The DSR Daily Brief: July 12, 2022

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July 11, 2022

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Bonus Brief: July 9, 2022

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The Bill of Rights and the Continued Fight for Freedom

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July 8, 2022

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Next Steps in Making the Case Against Donald Trump

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July 7, 2022

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July 6, 2022

9

Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Blues

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July 5, 2022

11

Bonus Brief: July 2, 2022

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Supreme Injustices

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July 1, 2022

14

Don't Stick Fireworks Up Your Butt

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June 30, 2022

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June 29, 2022

17

Showstopper

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June 28, 2022

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June 27, 2022

20

What is Happening with the Supreme Court?

21

June 24, 2022

22

Warning: Weak Sauce Ahead

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June 23, 2022

24

The Trial of Donald J. Trump

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June 22, 2022

26

June 21, 2022

27

The January 6th Hearings and the Ongoing Coup

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June 17, 2022

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The Revolutionary Act of Telling it Like it is About January 6th

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June 16, 2022

31

June 15, 2022

32

Democracy vs. Inflation

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June 14, 2022

34

June 13, 2022

35

Bonus Brief: June 11, 2022

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A Life or Death Moment in the History of US Democracy

37

June 10, 2022

38

June 9, 2022

39

The Power of Crisis: A Conversation with Ian Bremmer

40

June 8, 2022

41

Putin Should Have Stuck to the Spy Game

42

June 7, 2022

43

Guns: What Are They Good For?

44

June 6, 2022

45

Bonus Brief: June 4, 2022

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June 3, 2022

47

Is America’s System of Justice Broken?

48

June 2, 2022

49

June 1, 2022

50

Ukraine on the Razor's Edge

51

May 31, 2022

52

May 30, 2022

53

Bonus Brief: May 28, 2022

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May 27, 2022

55

How to Cure America’s Gun Disease

56

May 26, 2022

57

The Great Experiment: A Conversation with Yascha Mounk

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May 25, 2022

59

Biden's Successful Asia Trip is Over: What Next?

60

May 24, 2022

61

May 23, 2022

62

FEED DROP: Next in Foreign Policy "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena with Katie Howland"

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Bonus Brief: May 21, 2022

64

May 20, 2022

65

Don't Look Now, the Democrats Can Win in November--Here's How

66

May 19, 2022

67

Freezing Order: A Conversation with Bill Browder

68

May 18, 2022

69

Imagining the World Without Putin

70

May 17, 2022

71

The DSR Daily Brief for Monday, May 16, 2022

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Bonus Brief: May 14, 2022

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May 13, 2022

74

The Supreme Court in Crisis

75

May 12, 2022

76

Overcoming Trumpery: A Conversation with Norm Eisen

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May 11, 2022

78

If Ukraine is a War of Attrition, Who is Attriting Whom?

79

May 10, 2022

80

May 9, 2022

81

‘The Invigilator,’ with guest Jennifer Taub

82

Bonus Brief: May 7, 2022

83

May 6, 2022

84

The End of a Woman's Right to Choose: Part II, Constitutional and Legal Consequences

85

The End of a Woman's Right to Choose: Part I, Health and Political Consequences

86

May 5, 2022

87

May 4, 2022

88

The Doomsday Episode

89

May 3, 2022

90

May 2, 2022

91

Bonus Brief: April 30, 2022

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April 29, 2022

93

Why are the Douchebags in Charge?

94

April 28, 2022

95

April 27, 2022

96

Should We Be Headed For The Bunker?

97

April 26, 2022

98

April 25, 2022

99

April 22, 2022

100

What if Putin Uses a Nuke?

101

April 21, 2022

102

Who's Winning the Money War with Russia: A Conversation with Jay Newman

103

April 20, 2022

104

The Lessons of Ukraine So Far...for What Happens Next in Ukraine and Beyond

105

April 19, 2022

106

April 18, 2022

107

April 15, 2022

108

Is COVID Becoming an Epidemic of the Poor and the Stupid?

109

April 14, 2022

110

100% Democracy: A Conversation with E.J. Dionne

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April 13, 2022

112

Putin's Colossal Blunder

113

April 12, 2022

114

April 11, 2022

115

The Devil Never Sleeps: A Conversation About Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters with Juliette Kayyem

116

April 8, 2022

117

How Do Democrats Win in November?

118

April 7, 2022

119

April 6, 2022

120

What if You Were the General Who Had to Give Bad News to Putin?

121

April 5, 2022

122

April 4, 2022

123

April 1, 2022

124

The Best of Times and The Worst of Times

125

March 31, 2022

126

Lessons from the Edge: A conversation with Ambassador Masha Yovanovitch

127

March 30, 2022

128

The War in Ukraine After One Month: A Look Ahead

129

March 29, 2022

130

March 28, 2022

131

FEED DROP: Next in Foreign Policy "Documenting the Hong Kong Protests with Lorraine Ma"

132

March 25, 2022

133

The Challenges of Waging Economic War Against Russia

134

March 24, 2022

135

"Spies, Lies, and Algorithms": a conversation with Amy Zegart

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March 23, 2022

137

The War Crimes Case Against Vladimir Putin

138

March 22, 2022

139

March 21, 2022

140

March 18, 2022

141

A Look Behind the New Iron Curtain: How Russians See the War in Ukraine

142

March 17, 2022

143

March 16, 2022

144

What are the Odds of a Shooting War Between NATO and Russia?

145

March 15, 2022

146

March 14, 2022

147

March 11, 2022

148

If Russia's Going to Accuse Us of Escalation Even if We Don't Escalate, Then Why Not Escalate Anyway?

149

March 10, 2022

150

The Day the Post Cold War Era Ended

151

March 9, 2022

152

The First Victim of Russia's War Against Ukraine Has Been Conventional Wisdom

153

March 8, 2022

154

March 7, 2022

155

March 4, 2022

156

A Conversation With Senator Chris Murphy

157

March 3, 2022

158

A Conversation with Former SACEUR General Philip Breedlove

159

March 2, 2022

160

Before Putin Backs Down, He Will Double Down

161

March 1, 2022

162

February 28, 2022

163

Is Putin Crazy?

164

Where Can You Hit Putin So It Hurts?

165

How Putin Can Declare Victory Without Invading Ukraine

166

The Fog of Not Quite Knowing Whether It's Going to be War or Not

167

President Biden, Please Listen to this Podcast

168

Even Putin Does Not Know What Putin Will Do Next

169

The State of the Case Against Donald J. Trump

170

Go Back to Where You Came From: A Conversation with Wajahat Ali

171

So Far So Good with the West’s Ukraine Response—Now Where Could this Go Wrong?

172

A Technology Cold War is Raging: What are the Costs and Risks for Companies and Countries?

173

What Does Vlad Want? (Plus: What Does Breyer's Retirement Mean?)

174

Putin Underestimated Biden and NATO: Big Mistake

175

White House Whisperers: What Should Biden Do in 2022?

176

Europe on the Brink

177

COVID at Two: Where Did We Go Wrong?

178

Machiavellian Narcissistic Psychopaths, Oh My!

179

Putin and Ukraine: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

180

January 6th as You Have Never Seen it Before

181

A Post-COVID Boom, a Ukraine War & the "Goulash Archipelago": Predictions for 2022

182

Best of DSR: FILIBUSTED: GETTING TO THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE US SENATE

183

Best of DSR: TRUMP’S FAILED COUP ATTEMPT: HOW BAD WAS IT, HOW MUCH WORSE COULD IT HAVE BEEN, WHAT TO DO NEXT?

184

2021: The Year We Realized Just How at Risk Our Democracy Is

185

A Look Back at the World in 2021

186

Beltway Black Box Series: Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)

187

Do we see a very dim light at the end of the tunnel for voting rights?

188

The Democracy Summit Has Ended. Now the Real Work Begins.

189

Will the Supreme Court Survive the Stench of Politicization

190

A Conversation with ABC's Jon Karl About His Book "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show"

191

The Deepening Crisis Along the Russia-Ukraine Border

192

A DSR Debate: Who Will Win the Power Struggle Between Big Tech and Nation States?

193

The Worst Public Health Crisis in US History May Be About to Get Worse

194

Master of the Game: A conversation with Martin Indyk

195

Trump's Disastrous Decision to Get Out of the Iran Deal Has Left Us with Only Bad Options

196

A Pre-Thanksgiving Foreign Policy Smörgåsbord

197

Bannon, Rittenhouse, and Arbery: What this week's cases tell us about justice in America today

198

Is Putin Making a Terrible Miscalculation?

199

Is America Too Dysfunctional to Remain a Superpower?

200

On Renewal: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter

201

The Sky may not be Falling... but it Certainly is on Fire

202

The Good, the Bad and the Obscene: An Economic Policy Conversation with Jason Furman

203

Biden in Europe: Give Credit Where it is Due...and Let's Acknowledge Where More Can Be Done

204

Are We About to Build Back Better? Are We About to Get Serious About January 6th Accountability?

205

Only the Rich Can Play: A Conversation with David Wessel

206

Managing Mega-Threats: From China to Facebook...and a Biden Foreign Policy Report Card

207

America is Just Going to Have to Learn to Accept Good News

208

Spy World Frenemies

209

There is Nothing for You Here: A Conversation with Fiona Hill

210

How Many Times Over Must We Be Able to Destroy the World to Prove We are Not Wimps?

211

How Many Commissions, Presidents and Senators Does It Take to Change a Supreme Court?

212

The Peanut Butter Spies, CIA’s China Initiative & Secret Service Burnout

213

Everything is Peachy Keen

214

For Your Eyes Only

215

Voter, Heal Thyself: A Conversation with Tom Nichols

216

Biden's Multi-Tiered China Policy is a Far Cry from Trump's

217

When Did Old People Being Able to Hear or Chew Their Food Become Marxism?

218

Head Case

219

Europe and the Atlantic Alliance After Merkel: What Next?

220

Is Now a Time for Hope or Preparing for the Worst with the Pandemic?

221

Accidents Will Happen

222

"8 Year-Old Assholes Cannot be Shamed": The Big National Security Scandal Nobody is Talking About

223

Sometimes the unthinkable happens: A conversation with Rebecca Frankel

224

When the President is a Madman How Patriotism and Service are Redefined

225

Girding for New and Old Threats

226

How Do You Feel About the Urge to Surge?

227

The Talibanization of the Supreme Court

228

The Man Who Loved Spying

229

Here, Right Matters...or Does It?: A Conversation with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

230

America's 2000 Yard Stare: Coping With Crises Closing in on All Sides

231

Kabul’s loss and a new 9/11 terror warning

232

I Alone Can Fix It: A Conversation with Carol Leonnig

233

As We Approach the Afghanistan Deadline: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

234

Why Did Trump Turn Away Our Afghan Allies?

235

The Human Factor

236

Rothkopf vs. the Washington Hivemind (a Reasonable Debate)

237

Implications for the Kabul Catastrophe

238

Ali Soufan on the Taliban’s Global Plans

239

Afghanistan Special Report: Where Do We Go from Here and What Lessons Can We Draw?

240

America in a Moment of Grave Peril: A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson

241

SPYING ON MISSILES

242

Public Health is Far More Than Just COVID: A Conversation with Dr. Leana Wen

243

The World is on Fire. Will We Have to Wait for a New Generation to Address the Crisis?

244

There's a Mountain of Evidence Against Trump & His Coup Coconspirators. But Will DoJ Do Anything About It?

245

Spies vs. Spies

246

We're Clueless Until We Overreact: America's Foreign Policy History in a Nutshell

247

What Next for the 1/6 Commission...and for the Resurgent COVID Epidemic

248

Going Deep

249

The End of an Era in US Foreign Policy: Is that a Good Thing?

250

Is the Vaccinated vs. the Unvaccinated the Next Civil War?

251

Families of Spies

252

Another Lost Decade for Latin America?

253

Battling on All Fronts

254

"Dying is Easy, Democracy is Hard"

255

What Grade Does the Country Get on Holding the Trumpists Accountable for the January 6th Coup Attempt?

256

Nightmare Scenario: A Stark Behind the Scenes Look at How Trump Mishandled the Pandemic

257

Enemies Within and Without

258

Are We on the Road to Political Apartheid in the US

259

Spies that Bind

260

A Rhyme of History

261

Is the Secret Objective of US Foreign Policy to be Just Tough Enough Not to Have to Do Anything?

262

On the Cusp of Autocracy

263

Cold War Capers

264

Deep State Exclusive: The Very First Podcast of 2025!

265

Nearly Six Months After an Attempted Coup, We Have More Questions than Answers, More Evasion than Accountability

266

Perhaps It's Not Quite Time to Give Up on Our System of Justice

267

‘Everybody knows somebody’

268

A Far Cry from Helsinki: Biden and Putin to Set "Guardrails" and Manage Expectations

269

Make the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar

270

Meeting of the Minds

271

Is There a Future for the Democratic Party?

272

That Was Then

273

The New Map: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

274

Let's Make Diplomacy Boring Again

275

Cyber Counterpunch

276

This is a Song About Disappointment

277

The Gathering Storms

278

Where's Your Sense of Urgency? It Won't Be 2024 When Our Democracy is Undone, it'll be 2021.

279

Spies in the Soup

280

Special Episode: The CFR's Richard Haass on the State of the World

281

America's Message to the Middle East: We're Broken and Our Focus Needs to be on Taking Care of Business at Home

282

How Do You Say "We Are Being Attacked by Radicals Who Want to Destroy Democracy" in a Way that Will Make People Care?

283

When of the Two Most Likely Solutions One is Impossible and the other is Even Less Likely, What Then?

284

Panetta’s Regret

285

Has the CIA Lost Its Grip on the Middle East?

286

The Cracking Sounds You Hear in the Old US-Israel Relationship

287

Episode 9 Deep Thoughts from the DSR Network

288

What's Cooking in the Laboratories of Democracy

289

Crisis and Confusion

290

The Unimaginable Covid Crisis in India

291

The One in Which Rosa Suggests That He or She With the Most Instagram Followers Should Rule

292

The Woman Who Invented Ronald Reagan

293

How Do We Get from Here to Accountability?

294

Shots in the Dark

295

Is this Just Indian Summer for Democracy in America?

296

A Stake Through the Heart of Reaganomics

297

Biden Gives the Most Kennedy-esque Rooseveltian Speech in History

298

Fire and Ice

299

Biden's First 100 Days, The Foreign Policy Perspective

300

Episode 8 - Deep Thoughts

301

Will We Ever Have Real Police Reform in America?

302

A CIA Spy in Syria, and US Responses to Russian, Chinese and Other Adversary Hacking

303

A Page is Turned: We Shift Our Focus from Old Threats to New Ones

304

A Tale of Two COVIDS

305

A One on One with NYT Columnist Nick Kristof: Searching for Solutions from Here at Home to the World's Hot Spots

306

"The GOP Thinks of Politics Like Pro Wrestling"--A Conversation with Rep. Eric Swalwell

307

How Can Joe Biden Avoid the Curse of 400 Rabbits?

308

Episode 7: Deep Thoughts From The DSR Network

309

It's Not Too Early to Predict What Biden Era Politics Will Be Like

310

Sorting the Good News from the Bad on COVID

311

Things are Going Pretty Well...Maybe it's Time to Start Worrying

312

Episode 6 - Deep Thoughts from the DSR Network

313

One-on-one with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Why It is So Important to Tell the Stories of Heroic Women

314

Standing Up to Anti-Asian Hate Crime: A One-on-One with Rep. Ted Lieu

315

Kibbitizpalooza: Advice for the Biden Administration as they Roll Out Their Policies

316

When Can We Go To War and Who Decides?

317

Episode 5 - Deep Thoughts From The DSR Network

318

Ah, So This is What Having an Actual, Thought Out, Professional Foreign Policy Feels Like

319

Russia Meddled! Trump Lied! The GOP Covered For It! And Nothing Happened...Again!

320

Is Filibuster Reform Now More Likely Than Not?

321

What Challenges Will the US Face in the Post-COVID World?

322

Episode 4 - Deep Thoughts

323

Wait, what? A president behaving presidentially? News that's...actually...good?

324

Next Steps Toward Making the Country Safer and Healthier

325

"A Foreign Policy for the American People"

326

Episode 3 - Deep Thoughts with David Rothkopf

327

Washington Got You Pissed Off? Us Too!

328

Tangled Up in Blue: Policing at a Crossroads

329

The Daughters of Kobani: The Women Who Beat ISIS

330

Not an Enemy, Not Quite an Ally: America's Reset with Saudi Arabia...and the Middle East

331

Deep Thoughts with David Rothkopf - Episode 2

332

The Accountability Conundrum: How Do We Form Commissions to Investigate 1/6 or COVID in the Current Political Environment?

333

This is Not Donald Trump's Planet Earth Anymore...and That's a Very Good Thing

334

Which is More Powerful, the Bully Pulpit or the Bullshit Pulpit?

335

American Kompromat: Why Don't Americans Care More that Trump was a Russian Asset?

336

Can the Biden Foreign Policy Team Live Up to Their Advance Billing?

337

Episode 1: Deep Thoughts with David Rothkopf

338

On January 6, the Noose Was for Mike Pence...Now a Legal Noose Is Tightening Around Trump

339

The Terrorist Next Door: The New War to Combat Domestic Extremism

340

Promising Signs for a New Era in US Foreign Policy

341

Where Does the Acquittal of Donald Trump Leave Us?

342

When is an Open and Shut Case Not an Open and Shut Case?

343

Does the Impeachment Trial Represent a Turning Point for the GOP?

344

Once They've Finished the Easy Part, What's Next for the Biden Administration?

345

In Search of the Republican "Taliban We Can Work With"

346

Rays of Hope: A Conversation with Tom Friedman

347

What Does the FBI Know That Congress Doesn't?

348

America's Not the Only Place Democracy is Under Siege

349

Was Trump's Coup Attempt on January 6th the Start of Something Much Worse?

350

Filibusted: Getting to the Truth About What's Wrong with the US Senate

351

Reading the Biden Tea Leaves: What A Week of Change Is Telling Us About Our Futures

352

Three Wednesdays: Storming the Capitol, Impeachment & Inauguration...Where Does It Leave the Average American?

353

Et Voila! A New America Emerges Overnight!

354

Ask the Experts: How Do We Make January 6 a Positive Turning Point for America?

355

What Will Be the First Line of Donald Trump's Obituary?

356

Why Trump Should Have Been Impeached Three Times: COVID Update

357

Trump's Failed Coup Attempt: How Bad Was It, How Much Worse Could It Have Been, What to Do Next?

358

The Trump Coup: A Week in Washington Like No Other

359

Special Edition: Global Risks 2021 with Ian Bremmer

360

2021 Predictions: Boring May Be Out of Biden's Reach

361

Too Famous: Stories and Baking with Kathy Griffin

362

Hopes and Fears: Reflections on 2020 and 2021

363

Our Escalating Cyberwar with Russia: What Can Biden Do?

364

American Democracy's Near Death Experience: How Do We Recover and Ensure It Doesn't Happen Again?

365

Why Having the Most Diverse Cabinet in History Matters

366

Testing Joe Biden: What Challenges Will Take the Measure of the Next President

367

Can America Ever Lead Again?

368

Trump's Endgame: How Bad Can it Get?

369

What is the Cure for Post-Trump Stress Disorder? (Asking for a Planet I Know.)

370

The One in Which They Scare the Shit Out of You

371

What Comes After WTF? The Future of American Leadership in the Biden Era

372

Songs of Experience

373

Megashocker: A Normal Conversation About Policy and Politics

374

First Principles: The Surprising Truth About What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans...for Better and for Worse

375

Are We Entering What Will Be the Least Festive Holiday Season in Our Lifetimes?

376

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy...But We're Not Out of the Woods Yet

377

After the Past Four Years, Do We Have Enough Energy to Celebrate Properly

378

There's Got to be a Morning After

379

What to Do When Your Politics is as Broken as Ours?

380

Pray but Verify: Can We Trust Our Upcoming Elections?

381

Can We Get There From Here: The Precarious Path to "The Third Reconstruction"

382

Among All the Traitors in US History, Where Does Donald Trump Rank?

383

And Now for Something Completely Different: Optimism.

384

The View from Inside the Trump White House: It Ain’t Pretty

385

The Man Who Ran Washington

386

The Most Successful Covert Operation Since the Trojan Horse...and It Wasn't So Covert

387

Will America Tear Itself Apart?

388

A Song of Fire and Ice...and Cyber and Terrorists and Lawyers

389

From a Wannabe Authoritarian to the Perfect Weapon

390

From the 25th Amendment to a Trip to the Hague: What to Do About Trump?

391

The 3 a.m. Call is Coming from Inside the White House

392

Shit Show or Clusterfuck? (And are we talking about the debates, Trump's taxes or the whole Trump presidency?)

393

Our Unfolding Democratic Emergency: The Red Lights are Already Flashing

394

The Most Precarious Moment for American Democracy Since the Civil War

395

Have We Already Seen the October Surprise?

396

Setting the Agenda at a Watershed Moment for Women's Rights in America

397

What Happens When We Lose a National Hero a Moment When the Entire US Government Faces a Crisis of Legitimacy?

398

The Question That Looms Above the Trump Presidency

399

Donald Trump's "Avalanche of Outrageousness": The Perspectives of Peter Strzok

400

Will Joe Biden Be the President Progressives Think We Need?

401

Is There a Cure for What Ails the GOP?

402

We are at 65 9/11s and Counting...Where Do We Go From Here?

403

Aaaaaand the hoooome of the...suckers...and losers!

404

While Trump Tries to Bury the Russia Story, Russia is Still Trying to Bury Us

405

The Worst Term We Can Think of For Trump...is a Second Term

406

Foreign Policy Takes a Holiday: Welcome to Campaign Season 2020

407

The End of the Great Russia Hoax Hoax

408

What Do the United States and Belarus Have in Common?

409

Who You Gonna Call...When the Fire Department is Taken Over by Arsonists?

410

What Thomas Hobbes Did on His Summer Vacation

411

We are in the Worst Case Scenario...What's Next?

412

"This is America's Last Chance"

413

Election 2020, What Could Go Wrong?

414

Our Enemies are Laughing Now, Wait Until You See What a Second Trump Term Looks Like

415

When it Comes to National Security, this Administration is "Holding a Gun to Our Own Heads and Threatening to Shoot"

416

Preparing for the Next Trump-Barr Crime Wave: Stealing the Election

417

"The End of White Politics" is Now

418

"Donald will never get better...and he's only going to get worse."

419

Navigating Via Rearview Mirror: Toxic Leadership, Groupthink and the Management Mess that Led to a Public Health Catastrophe

420

What is the World Capital of Omnishambolic Clusterfuckery?

421

Are We About to Enter a New Era in Climate Policy?

422

200,000 Dead by August? Who Will Be Held Accountable for the Crimes Now Being Committed Against the American People?

423

"If the President Were a Military Officer He Would Be Court-Martialed"

424

A Good Day for the Constitution, A Mixed Bag for Trump & a Bad Day for Barr

425

We Are Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Failed State

426

We do not have a federal government

427

What's the Worst Thing About the Russian-Afghan Bounty on Allied Troops Scandal?

428

Justice Started Out Blind, But at the Moment that May be the Least of Her Problems

429

Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz on the Way Out from the Crisis

430

The Song of the Summer of 2020 is Likely to Be a Sad One

431

The COVID Prognosis is Bleak

432

Trump is Terrible, No One is Surprised and He Could Still Win

433

Third Anniversary Episode: The Protests are America Healing

434

Is This a “Break Glass In Emergency” Moment?

435

The Top 5 Economic Steps a Biden Administration Should Take in 2021

436

A Category 5 Global Economic Hurricane is Looming

437

Lies, Damned Lies and Lies Trump Doesn't Even Realize Are Lies

438

What Fresh Hell Is This? Or This? And What About This One Over Here?

439

What Difference Will an Election Make: Democracy and Human Rights After Trump

440

The Crisis Enters a New Phase: Are We Making Progress or Simply Facing or Even Creating New Risks?

441

Remaking US Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of a President Who Has Been "Drunk at the Wheel"

442

Under Cover of Covid: While One Crisis Commands Our Attention Others are Brewing

443

The Craziness in Washington is Not Just a Sideshow, It is a Symptom of an Unprecedented US Leadership Failure

444

Rosie the Riveter Would Have Worn a Mask--Trump Must Too

445

You Think It's Bad Combatting a Pandemic with Leaders Who Don't Understand Science?  Just Wait.

446

Our Next Great National Challenge is to Rebuild Our Economy: Where Do We Begin?

447

Kill the Body and the Head Will Fall

448

Do We Need a Marshall Plan for the United States America?

449

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Conversation with Sarah Kendzior

450

What Hath Jared Wrought...and What's He Doing With the PPE Our Health Workers Need?

451

We Were Warned: A Conversation with Rep. Ted Lieu

452

We Can't Handle the Truth! (And the Truth Doesn't Give a Damn)

453

Is Kim Jong Un Dead or Collecting Shells at the Beach on His "Staycation"?

454

Taking a Closer Look at that Oncoming Train

455

What Do We Do in Lieu of a President?: The View from the Medical and the Political Front Lines

456

Is Trump a Man or a Mouse?

457

The Upside of the Apocalypse

458

Special Edition: Rep. Val Demings on COVID, Florida, and Our Future

459

The World Will Never Be the Same--But How Will It Be Different?

460

Special Episode: Inside Trump's Failure to Respond to the COVID-19 Threat

461

The Fog of Pandemic: If the Virus Doesn't Get You, the Misinformation, Inequality or Lessons Unlearned Will

462

Will Democracy Be COVID-19's Most Consequential Victim?

463

A Health Crisis Wrapped in an Economic Crisis Inside a Leadership Crisis

464

Do Our Leaders Morals Matter in a Crisis Like This?

465

What Will the Death Toll of the War on Science Be?

466

Beyond the Politics of the Pandemic: In a Crisis Party Must Not Matter

467

We've Never Seen Anything Like This...And All That We Know About the Future is that the Worst Is Yet to Come

468

We Won't be the Same Again: A Once in a Century Crisis and the Big Changes It Will Produce

469

Flying Blind: Facing an Unprecedented Crisis In a Time of Complete Leadership Failure in Washington

470

When It's a Matter of Life and Death, Who Can You Trust?

471

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And We Feel Fine...More or Less...Well, Not As Bad As You'd Think)

472

Lies, Damned Lies, Infodemics and The Trump Disinformation Machine

473

Afghanistan! Syria! Coronavirus! Elections! What's Scariest?

474

What If Shattering Norms Was the Right Thing to Do, But We Shattered All the Wrong Ones?

475

The Winds of Authoritarianism are Blowing Stronger

476

We are in Uncharted Waters for the US National Security Community: What Next?

477

Russia, Russia, Russia! Our President's One Track Mind

478

The Democratic Party Death Wish: Why? Why? Why?

479

Utter Madness: Trump & the World Fail in the Face of a Potential Pandemic

480

America's Election Year Vulnerabilities: The Grim Outlook

481

Where Do We Go From Here?: Part II, Let's Keep Fighting Edition

482

How Bad Can it Get?: Don't Ask

483

Trump and "The Bomb": If He's the Most Dangerous President Ever, Why Isn't Anyone Talking About the Really Biggest Risks Re-election Will Bring?

484

Put Away Your Sweatpants! The Jury of 100 Will Disappoint. On to the Jury of 130 Million!

485

A Pandemic Plus Donald Trump? What Could Go Wrong? Also: Is Joe Biden the Best Answer for Progressives?

486

While You Were Flipping Out About Impeachment, Armageddon Got a Little Closer

487

Impeachment Surprise: Acquittal or Conviction Are Far From the Only Two Possible Outcomes of the Senate Trial

488

Impeachment! Primaries! Elections! What if none of it really matters?

489

The Week in Trump: When Is a Trial Not a Trial, a Hoax Not a Hoax, and a Big Trade Deal Neither Big Nor a Trade Deal?

490

The Soleimani Killing Was the First Wag-the-Dog Episode of the Trump 2020 Campaign...Whose Dog Will Be Next?

491

Why the Impeachment Trial Might Be the High Point of Donald Trump's Year

492

Have We Just Bumbled into Another War in the Middle East?

493

Two Years Later, We Are In a Constitutional Crisis

494

Other than the End of the World and the Fall of Democracy, How Did You Like the Decade, Mrs. Lincoln?

495

Rep. Eric Swalwell: Don't Assume McConnell Holds the Winning Hand on the Shape of the Senate Trial

496

The Republican Centipede: It's a Horror Movie, but for Whom?

497

The Incredible Shrinking Special Relationship and What Comes Next

498

What's Worse Than Donald Trump Winning Re-election?

499

In Other News: Birds Spitting Burning Tar Onto the Wailing Masses Below

500

Title: A Conversation With Juliette Kayyem

501

How Will History View the Impeachment of Donald Trump?

502

There Are No Turning Points

503

Meet Phil Ehr, the man who’ll beat Matt Gaetz

504

What's Better Than Listening to Your Crazy Relatives Talk Politics?

505

How Does a Nation Go Morally Bankrupt?: Gradually and then Suddenly.

506

Meet Phil Arballo, the Man Who Will Beat Devin Nunes

507

If You Think Post-Impeachment Hearings Depression is Bad, Wait Till You See What's Next

508

While the World Burns: Impeachment Week Ahead and Other Trumpian Catastrophes

509

How to Start a Revolution - A Conversation with Lauren Duca

510

What if the Facts on Impeachment Just Don't Matter?

511

Through the Lens of Ukraine: The Escalating Dangers of Trump Foreign Policy

512

Let's Not Screw Up This Impeachment Thing, OK?

513

It Can Happen Here: As Tyranny Looms and Becomes More Likely Daily

514

Pelosi? How Many Prosecutors Does She Have?

515

Will Trump's Efforts to End "Forever Wars" End Up Undermining Lasting Peace?

516

"No Need to Thank Us, America. It's What We Do.": The Deep State Rides to the Rescue Again

517

Trump is a One Man Crime Wave...and What Do the Dems Do Now?

518

King Me: How Trump and the DOJ Are Not Just Ignoring the Constitution But Trying to Undo the American Revolution

519

Alas, Poor Democracy, I Knew Him, Horatio...

520

The Only Pro in the Trump Administration is the One in Quid Pro Quo

521

Congratulations, We've Given Birth to a Bouncing Baby Constitutional Crisis!

522

Are the Democrats Ready for Impeachment?

523

Donald Trump is the MRSA of Presidents: A Grave Threat Our System Can't Fight Off

524

Putin's Hand Puppet Makes An Appearance in France

525

Four Minutes from Armageddon

526

We Are Not Prepared for Today's Global Threats...or Tomorrow's

527

Special End of Summer Collusionpalooza!!!

528

Nuclear Powered Missiles, Explosions, Radiation Plumes in Russia: Nothing to See Here

529

Greenland, The 51st State

530

UNREDACTED: A Conversation with ‘A.G.’ of Mueller, She Wrote

531

Attention Planet Earth: Listen to this Pod and Learn What the Next US Presidency Will Be Like

532

A Conversation with General James Clapper: Priorities for an Intel Community in Flux

533

Tobogganing Toward Gomorrah Revisited

534

Rising to the Challenge of White Supremacist Terror in a Country With a Racist President

535

"This is the Best Time to Be Your Worst Selves"--Trump's Message to the World

536

How Many Articles of Impeachment Does Donald Trump Deserve?

537

Are We on a Slippery Slope Toward Authoritarianism...and Can the "Deep State" Save Us?

538

The Last of the Grown Ups Is Leaving the Building

539

DSR: Is Impeachment Dead and If It Is, Can Democracy Be Far Behind?

540

Nat Sec Magazine: The Back Channel: A Conversation with America's Most Distinguished Diplomat About the Past & Future of U.S. Foreign Policy

541

Racism, Hatred and the Moment in American and World Politics

542

And Now for Something Even More Stupid and Dangerous Than the Usual Dangerous Stupidity

543

W4BP: That time I chatted with a Russian Double Agent: My Conversation with MSNBC Intelligence Analyst Naveed Jamali

544

To Celebrate 200 Episodes: A Little Piece of the Thorny Crown of Entropy for Everyone

545

200 Podcast Episodes Later How Bad Have Things Gotten for America?

546

Fighting for FOIA

547

200th Episode Special, Part I: A Glimmer of Hope?

548

Mike, Dan and the Blue Dress (yup that dress): My conversation with the hosts of the Skullduggery

549

Ivanka's in Charge, Everybody, Nothing to Worry About!

550

Wine, Fries, Miss. Nancy & Fruity G: Unredacted Sits Down With CNN’s Asha Rangapa

551

Rise Up, Rise Up. Here he comes. Here comes the General. My conversation with General Mark Hertling

552

Special July 4th Episode: America Really Does Not Suck!

553

Good Riddance Sarah Slanders™️

554

It's a Great Time to Be a Nuke!

555

Good Question for the Next Debate: Do You Have a Son-in-Law and Will He Control Your Foreign Policy?

556

My time with Tony & Rachel: A conversation with Rachel Chavkin

557

50/50 in 2020: Why So Many Candidates are Pledging Gender Parity in National Security Leadership

558

To Impeach or Not To Impeach: Why It’s Still A Question

559

Andy Richter Joins UNREDACTED

560

Should You Care if the US and Russia Are Engaged in a Cyberwar Right Now?

561

America Loves Foreign Policy. No, Really...

562

R.I.P. "A Nation of Laws Not Men", 1780-2019

563

Sex in the CIA: Four Former CIA Officers Dish About Sex and Spies

564

The Great Successor: A Conversation with Anna Fifield on Her New Book on Kim Jong Un

565

One on One with Prof. Lawrence Tribe: A Different Path Toward Impeachment

566

"Do What's Right We Have Your Back, If Not We'll Have Your Job" Shannon Watts Joins UNREDACTED

567

30 Years After Tiananmen: What Direction is China Heading?

568

Targeter: A Conversation with Nada Bakos on the Past, Present and Future of Intelligence

569

Part II of The One, The Only… Hillary Clinton

570

Part I with The One, The Only... Hillary Clinton!

571

The Good News is Not Every Part of the Frog Has Been Boiled Quite Yet

572

Happy Day! It's Our Summer Reading Episode!

573

Who Deserves a Banana Milkshake in the Face?

574

The Threat Is Not War With Iran, It's Right Here at Home

575

The Three C's: Comey, CIA & Corgis: Former FBI Agent and CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Josh Campbell

576

Stand-Up, Political Activist & Funny AF Guy: My Conversation with John Fugelsang

577

Constitutional Rot, Part Twelve: How Much of This Can We Take?

578

So Much for Conventional Wisdom, America Actually Seems to Care About Foreign Policy

579

We're In the Endgame Now: A Conversation with Rick Wilson

580

My Midwest Chat Fest: My Conversation with Paul Adelstein

581

If the 25th Amendment Won't Work, What if the Government Just Ignored the President for a Couple Years?

582

Is Donald Trump More Like Henry VIII or the Night King?

583

The One In Which Kori Schake Shuts Down the Biden Campaign Before It Gets Started

584

Remember the Part of the Mueller Report that Was About Being Attacked by a Foreign Enemy?

585

A Marine, an Army Captain and a CIA Officer Walk Into A Bar

586

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mueller Report

587

How I Learned to Perfect My Key Lime Pie: A Conversation with Andrew Zimmern

588

Empty Posturing with Iran?

589

Another Fine Mess: The Country is Full But the Administration is Empty

590

The Day I pledged Wine & Fries Sorority: A Conversation with Sam Vinograd and Asha Rangappa

591

Sen. Chris Murphy: From the Middle East to the Southern Border What We Need Most is New Leadership

592

Who Is America's Worst Ally...and Can Joe Biden Make Everything Right Again?

593

That's a Pretty Putrid Pony Blanket You've Got There

594

Fun, Laughs, Good Times: A Conversation with Three of my Favorite Tweople

595

Natasha Bertrand: This Is Only the End of the Beginning of the Trump-Russia Saga

596

Jump Down the Trash Shoot Flyboy: A Brexit Update

597

A Crappy Human Being Surrounded by Other Crappy Human Beings

598

Did I Forget to Mention, His Dad Worked for the CIA: A Conversation with Diedrich Bader

599

Bribing Your Way Into The Global Elite

600

Stay, May, or D-Day?

601

We got most of the Cool Actors: A Conversation with Entertainment Weekly Journalist and Novelist Anthony Breznican

602

The One in Which Sex Spas in South Florida Are Finally Mentioned

603

Less Than Zero: A Look at the President’s Budget…and into His Mind

604

Amb. Tim Roemer: Is Our Most Neglected Big Power Relationship with India? And What's Ahead for Democrats in 2020?

605

The Podcast that Almost Drove America's Sweetheart To Drink: A Conversation with Valerie Bertinelli

606

Time for a Time Out from the Saudis?

607

Lessons of Hanoi

608

Amb. Michael McFaul: The View from a Point In US-Russia Relations No One Could Have Envisioned

609

Please Stop the News! It's Too Much!

610

How I Met The Creator Of How I Met Your Mother: A Conversation with the very funny Craig Thomas.

611

Are We On the Verge of Trump’s First Big Foreign Policy Win?

612

Stephen Walt on Why Less is More in the Middle East and Where Donald Trump Has (Accidentally) Gotten It Right

613

That Time My Friend Turned Out To Be A Russian Spy: A Conversation with Elena Nicolaou

614

What’s Worse Than America Failing Its Allies?

615

Traitors in Plain Sight

616

Are We Ready for the Future of War?: A Conversation with General (Ret.) Charles Jacoby

617

Twitter's Dynamic Duo: My funny, profanity laced, insightful conversation with Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast

618

What Do Virginia's Confederate Monuments Have to do with Foreign Policy?

619

What if We Were President?

620

Just Because Trumpworld is Batshit Crazy Doesn't Mean You Should Lose Sight of the Big Picture

621

The Best American Conspiracy: A Conversation with Brad Meltzer

622

The Spawn: The Horror Show that is the President's Inner Circle

623

The State of Our Union Is...Yep, That's the Word We Were Going to Use, Too

624

Fierce, Funny and Incredibly Honest: A Conversation with Alyssa Milano

625

How Much Does a Huawei?

626

Tales in Wagging the Dog: I'll Trade You Roger Stone for Nicolas Maduro

627

Shuffle Off To The Deep State: A Funny Snarky Conversation With Asha Rangappa

628

Will the Government Shutdown Be the High Water Mark for the Rest of the Trump Years?

629

The Racist-in-Chief Marks Another Martin Luther King Day

630

Hostage Musicals, Rap Names and Twitter Trolls: A Conversation with Warren Leight

631

Roomba for President 2020

632

Well, If It Isn't a Brand New Bouncing Baby Constitutional Crisis!

633

National Security Magazine: Gen. Mark Hertling: The Nation May Need a Trump Every Once in a While...But for How Long?

634

The Time Hillary Clinton Fired You & You Continued to Show Up - A Candid Conversation w/ Philippe Reines.

635

2019: The Year in Review, Part II--"The Worst Year of Donald Trump's Life"

636

It Started With A Bang: A Conversation with Bill Prady, EVP & Co-Creator Big Bang Theory

637

A Deep State Xmas, Part II: Jewels from the Tiara of Optimism

638

A Deep State Xmas: Thorns from the Crown of Entropy

639

Don't Cryer for Me Argentina: A Conversation with Jon Cryer

640

Is a Chasm Opening Up with the Gulf? (An Outbreak of Obama Nostalgia May Soon Occur in the Unlikeliest of Places)

641

The Most Dangerous Moment in Half a Century: A Conversation with David Sanger

642

Our Idiots Are More Idiotic Than Your Idiots

643

She's Fierce, She's Funny and She Put Words in Obama's Mouth: A Conversation with Nell Scovell

644

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post Trump Era: A Conversation with Jake Sullivan

645

What Does the Life of George H.W. Bush Tell Us About Our Current Moment?

646

Don't You Wish Tony Soprano Were President?

647

Special Premiere Episode: After Working for Comey and Mueller, He Realized He Couldn't Work for Trump

648

National Security Magazine Episode 1

649

Everything is Easier When You're Stupid

650

What's Next for the Axis of Assholes?

651

A Deep State Thanksgiving, Part Deux: Who and What We are Thankful For

652

A Deep State Thanksgiving, Part I: Turkeys of the Year

653

Who Will Be Prosecuted for the War Crimes in Yemen?

654

Trump's Hair May Be Dry But the World Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket

655

Special Emergency Episode: From Sessions to Whitaker, How Low Can Trump Go?

656

1-on-1 with Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL: Hate in America and Where We Go From Here

657

Could It Be the Election's Two Biggest Losers were Donald Trump and...Robert Mueller?

658

1-on-1 with Norman Ornstein: America's First Post-Midterm Election Take

659

Trump Two Years After His Election: Who Gets the Lower Grade, the President or the People?

660

1-on-1 with Emy Shayo: It’s Bolsonaro’s Brazil Now…What Does That Mean for the Rest of Us?

661

1-on-1 with Mieke Eoyang: The Urgent Need to Rethink Cybersecurity

662

1-on-1 with David Sanger: It's Been Quite a Week, Let's Have a Drink...OK, Let's Have a Few...

663

If Every Teacher Had a Portable Nuclear Weapon There Would Be No More School Shootings

664

The Hell of Good Intentions...and the Pleasures of Dubious Ones...

665

1-on-1 with Fred Hochberg: The Future of Trade...There Are No Words

666

1-on-1 with Rula Jebreal: The Khashoggi Case and Its Aftershocks

667

What Foreign Policy Shifts May Follow a Dem Victory in November?

668

Fascist, Incompetent or Both: Assessing Trumpism Today

669

1-on-1 with Mieke Eoyang: The Nikki Haley Departure is Another Step Toward a Coming Big Shift in US Foreign Policy

670

1-on-1 with Peter W. Singer: LikeWar the Weaponization of Social Media

671

Joe Cirincione: A Ray of Hope Out of North Korea?

672

Evelyn Farkas: You're So Vain, Russia, You Probably Think This NATO Song Is About You

673

David Sanger: The War That Never Ends, Latest Dispatches from the Cyber Front

674

Hisham Melhem: Do the Administration’s Curious Moves Against Iran Amount to Much?