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In the Room with Peter Bergen

Overwhelmed by conflicting narratives and sensationalism in the news? Wondering where you can get an objective analysis and direct-from-the-source reporting?Look no further than In the Room with Peter Bergen. In a weekly nonpartisan news podcast, longtime national security journalist and bestselling author Peter Bergen goes beyond the headlines, to explore the world’s most important and captivating stories.Each week, listeners are invited to join Peter as he covers a news topic like war, artificial intelligence, UFOs, and more, including a rare peek inside the FBI's unit that is trying to prevent mass shootings. Balancing various perspectives on the su...

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The FBI’s Love Affair with Hollywood

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45 mins; November 12, 2024

How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency (REBROADCAST)

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The Mass Shooting that Everyone Saw Coming

47 mins; October 22, 2024

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38 mins; October 15, 2024

There’s a Conspiracy Theory for Just About Everything, So Should You Be Worried?

39 mins; October 08, 2024

Revisiting the First MAGA President

43 mins; October 01, 2024

How Modern Autocrats Keep Each Other in Power

31 mins; September 24, 2024

The General Who Told Trump What He Didn’t Want to Hear

33 mins; September 17, 2024

On the Trail and Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden (Rebroadcast)

46 mins; September 10, 2024

The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies

43 mins; September 03, 2024

How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? (Rebroadcast)

51 mins; August 27, 2024

Why Anti-Democratic Populists Keep Winning Elections

40 mins; August 20, 2024

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38 mins; August 12, 2024

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41 mins; July 09, 2024

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The One Way Out of an Israeli-Palestinian Forever War

35 mins; June 25, 2024

The Rise, and Maybe Downfall, of Liberal Democracy

40 mins; June 18, 2024

The Right-Wing Plan for Trump to Root Out the “Deep State Department”

47 mins; June 11, 2024

How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency

44 mins; June 04, 2024

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The Man Who Led NATO Is Trying to Frighten You

35 mins; May 21, 2024

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38 mins; May 14, 2024

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36 mins; April 30, 2024

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48 mins; April 23, 2024

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What UFO Conspiracies Have to Do with Jan. 6th

38 mins; April 09, 2024

Counterterrorism Chief Says Hamas Attack and Gaza War Have Reshaped Terror Threat

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Can the U.S. Just Pull Out of the Middle East?

40 mins; March 26, 2024

How Does the US Government Get Detained Americans Home?

48 mins; March 19, 2024

A Friendly Warning for America

38 mins; March 12, 2024

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44 mins; March 05, 2024

Did Oppenheimer’s Atomic Bomb Make the World Safer?

41 mins; February 27, 2024

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42 mins; February 20, 2024

Why America’s Biggest Terror Threat Is Homegrown

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Hunting the Bidens

51 mins; February 06, 2024

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43 mins; January 30, 2024

Is The Pentagon Really Hiding Crashed Alien Spaceships?

40 mins; January 23, 2024

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30 mins; January 16, 2024

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38 mins; January 09, 2024

The Americans Who Would Be on the Frontline of a War in the Pacific

35 mins; December 19, 2023

Who Controls America’s Past?

37 mins; December 12, 2023

How to Beat the Russian Army

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Could Prosecuting the Former President be Bad for American Democracy?

34 mins; November 28, 2023

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28 mins; November 14, 2023

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43 mins; November 07, 2023

A General and a Military Historian Say Israel-Hamas War is Most Challenging Conflict Since 1945

31 mins; October 31, 2023

Can the Next Mass Shooting Be Prevented?

46 mins; October 26, 2023

How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work?

41 mins; October 24, 2023

You Should Worry About A.I., but Not for the Reason You Think

42 mins; October 17, 2023

The Future of War

39 mins; October 10, 2023

The War that Americans Forgot, Iraqis Can’t — and Iran Won

42 mins; October 03, 2023

1-on-1 with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

77 hours 5 mins; September 26, 2023

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41 mins; September 19, 2023

Lessons From the Man Who Got bin Laden

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On the Trail and Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden

45 mins; September 05, 2023

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40 mins; August 01, 2023

What Would a Second Trump Presidency Mean for the World?

35 mins; July 25, 2023

What Makes a Great Authentic Spy Novel?

33 mins; July 18, 2023

Can the Fentanyl Epidemic Be Stopped?

34 mins; July 11, 2023

Michael Flynn’s New War

35 mins; July 04, 2023

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37 mins; June 27, 2023

Does Anything Scare War Correspondent Clarissa Ward?

38 mins; June 20, 2023

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33 mins; June 16, 2023

Who Is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—and What Does He Want?

44 mins; June 13, 2023

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28 mins; June 06, 2023

What Should the U.S. Do About Havana Syndrome?

42 mins; May 30, 2023

The CIA's Secret Museum

35 mins; May 23, 2023

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47 mins; May 16, 2023

What Keeps General David Petraeus Up at Night?

35 mins; May 16, 2023

Will Vladimir Putin Get Away with War Crimes?

37 mins; May 16, 2023

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2 mins; May 01, 2023

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