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AI Competition and Security: A discussion with Kemba Walden and Devin Lynch
31 mins; July 10, 2025
Keeping Our Beaches Clean with the Surfrider Foundation
16 mins; July 03, 2025
NATO’s “Brain-Dead” Summit
24 mins; June 30, 2025
Did U.S Strikes Prevent an Iranian Bomb—or Provoke One?
22 mins; June 30, 2025
Is Ideology Blinding Iran to Reality?
28 mins; June 26, 2025
Emergency Podcast:  How Degraded is Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Program?
13 mins; June 25, 2025
12-Day War: Now What?
25 mins; June 24, 2025
Emergency Podcast: Iran Strikes Back
15 mins; June 23, 2025
Google's Gopi Kallayil on the AI Revolution
47 mins; June 20, 2025
How Might Iran Conflict End?
29 mins; June 20, 2025
Israel’s Strategic Objectives and the Future of Warfare
23 mins; June 18, 2025
Israel-Iran: Is Time Running Out?
18 mins; June 17, 2025
Emergency Podcast: Israeli Strike on Iran
30 mins; June 13, 2025
Can We Share Spectrum?
13 mins; June 09, 2025
What is the End Point of U.S.-China Competition?
26 mins; June 03, 2025
Russia’s Battlefield Woes
17 mins; May 29, 2025
The Golden Dome and the New Missile Age
20 mins; May 15, 2025
Trump’s Middle East Minerals Deal
16 mins; May 15, 2025
Emergency Podcast: U.S.-China Tariff Pause
27 mins; May 14, 2025
Analyzing Missile Attacks in Ukraine
31 mins; May 09, 2025
Trump and the Australian Elections
20 mins; May 07, 2025
A Drone and Ground View From Ukraine
19 mins; May 02, 2025
Debt Matters
31 mins; May 01, 2025
Trump’s Panama Canal Policy
18 mins; April 29, 2025
Can Policy Win the AI Race?
21 mins; April 24, 2025
China Weathers the Storm of U.S. Tariffs
18 mins; April 17, 2025
Auto Tariffs Threaten to Drive Up Prices
23 mins; April 15, 2025
China’s Halt of Critical Minerals
20 mins; April 15, 2025
Rep. Bryan Steil on STABLE Act
22 mins; April 11, 2025
Liberation Day Fallout and What Comes Next
30 mins; April 08, 2025
Mark Penn Polls and the Future of News
22 mins; April 07, 2025
South Korea’s Quiet Crisis and Trade with the U.S.
7 mins; April 04, 2025
Reciprocal Tariff Reactions
24 mins; April 03, 2025
Brief: Trump's Tariff Plan
11 mins; April 03, 2025
Drones and AI on the Ukrainian Battlefield
17 mins; April 02, 2025
Brief: What to Expect from Tariffs
5 mins; March 31, 2025
China Cracks Down on Journalism
19 mins; March 27, 2025
Hidden Depths: Water as a Resource and a Weapon
24 mins; March 25, 2025
Russia's Shadow War Against the West
19 mins; March 21, 2025
Trump’s Muscular Middle East Policy
24 mins; March 19, 2025
Securing Full Stack U.S. Leadership in AI
21 mins; March 17, 2025
Measles Outbreak Implications
23 mins; March 12, 2025
European Divorce
26 mins; March 11, 2025
Intelligence and Subversion in Ukraine -
21 mins; March 07, 2025
Stepping Up on Spectrum
19 mins; March 04, 2025
Transatlantic Tensions at the Munich Security Conference
28 mins; February 26, 2025
Ukraine Minerals Deal Explained
14 mins; February 26, 2025
Protecting the Backbone of the Internet
22 mins; February 24, 2025
Tumultuous Times in Europe
33 mins; February 20, 2025
Responding to the LA Wildfires
21 mins; February 12, 2025
Tariffs and More Tariffs
11 mins; February 11, 2025
What's Happening to USAID?
25 mins; February 06, 2025
Tariff Leverage
23 mins; February 05, 2025
Don’t Brush Off Bird Flu
19 mins; January 30, 2025
DeepSeek Deep Dive
29 mins; January 29, 2025
Africa Policy in the Second Trump Administration
21 mins; January 27, 2025
A Rising Barometer for 2025
19 mins; January 22, 2025
Executive Order on AI and Energy Infrastructure - Emergency Podcast 2.0
23 mins; January 14, 2025
AI Diffusion Framework - Emergency Podcast
28 mins; January 13, 2025
Trudeau’s Dramatic Resignation
24 mins; January 10, 2025
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi on bipartisan efforts to counter China
16 mins; December 20, 2024
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company
19 mins; December 18, 2024
Piecing Together What Happened in Syria
22 mins; December 12, 2024
Syria’s House of Cards
12 mins; December 11, 2024
Syria: Moment of Maximum Hope
23 mins; December 10, 2024
All About the Missiles
20 mins; December 02, 2024
Energy Scramble: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in AI
18 mins; November 21, 2024
Predicting AI Policy in the Second Trump Administration
28 mins; November 07, 2024
Navigating National Security in the age of AI
20 mins; November 04, 2024
Crossing the Rubicon: North Korea Sends Troops to Russia
46 mins; November 01, 2024
A “Negative Spiraling Cycle” in Lebanon
24 mins; October 31, 2024
The National Security Memorandum on AI
30 mins; October 26, 2024
The State of Election Security in 2024
26 mins; October 21, 2024
The Peril of American Neglect in the Pacific
21 mins; October 15, 2024
Escalating to War between Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran
21 mins; October 11, 2024
Pins and Needles in the Middle East
25 mins; October 02, 2024
Tim Shriver: Need a Lift?
25 mins; September 30, 2024
War in Lebanon
24 mins; September 25, 2024
Update: Ukraine and Israel
27 mins; September 12, 2024
Navin Girishankar: Economic Security and Technology at CSIS
18 mins; September 09, 2024
Foreign Policy and the New Administration
25 mins; September 03, 2024
Nobody Wants to Talk about Covid
24 mins; August 30, 2024
Mother of All Electoral Frauds: Maduro in Venezuela
23 mins; August 28, 2024
Mpox Outbreak
31 mins; August 21, 2024
Restoring American Deterrence
42 mins; August 16, 2024
Unknown Mideast Redlines
26 mins; August 09, 2024
Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
23 mins; August 05, 2024
Made in America: Building Economic Resilience
39 mins; August 01, 2024
Iran’s Next Act & Houthis' Next Move
27 mins; July 15, 2024
NATO Comes to Washington
17 mins; July 03, 2024
NATO Comes to Washington
45 mins; July 03, 2024
The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World
45 mins; June 28, 2024
The It’s More Than Grit Crossover Episode: Moving the Economic Needle
33 mins; June 24, 2024
Putin’s Play in NK
16 mins; June 21, 2024
How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
40 mins; June 14, 2024
Reimagining the G7
15 mins; June 13, 2024
Rep. Brad Schneider’s Trips to Israel and Saudi Arabia
28 mins; June 11, 2024
Breaking Mexico’s Glass Ceiling
26 mins; June 10, 2024
Arms Control Interregnum
24 mins; June 03, 2024
Mexico’s Historic Election
24 mins; May 30, 2024