Lessons of Hanoi
David Sanger was in Hanoi for the failed negotiations between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. He recommends the food, the US approaches to the negotiation not so much. Apparently, leaving it to two mega...
5 Maalis 201942min
Amb. Michael McFaul: The View from a Point In US-Russia Relations No One Could Have Envisioned
Five years ago, the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine began. That was followed by the annexation of Crimea, US and European sanctions and, soon after, by stepped Russian efforts to undermine the lea...
4 Maalis 201939min
How I Met The Creator Of How I Met Your Mother: A Conversation with the very funny Craig Thomas
Craig's college fallback plan was to become a tv writer and when you're as talented and funny as he is, a TV writer is a great fallback plan. Signing with an agent while a senior in college (overachie...
1 Maalis 201948min
Please Stop the News! It's Too Much!
Depending on your view of history and human life, the Michael Cohen circus on television this Wednesday was the third or fourth most important story of the day (that we know of). Certainly, a shooting...
28 Helmi 201941min
Are We On the Verge of Trump’s First Big Foreign Policy Win?
Sometimes the experts at Deep State Radio harbor a slight but noticeable skepticism about the foreign policy acumen of Donald Trump and the band of ignorant thugs around him. But in this episode, nucl...
26 Helmi 201945min
Stephen Walt on Why Less is More in the Middle East and Where Donald Trump Has (Accidentally) Gotten It Right
Once upon a time Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote a blockbuster book called "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy." Deep State Radio Host David Rothkopf slammed it. But if you are tuning in t...
23 Helmi 201941min
That Time My Friend Turned Out To Be A Russian Spy: A Conversation with Elena Nico
Everyone has a story to tell and Elena Nicolaou has a helluva one. For years Elena and her family were close friends with Paul Erickson and his girlfriend Maria Butina...yes that Maria Butina. (The "a...
22 Helmi 201958min
What’s Worse Than America Failing Its Allies?
Donald Trump’s America has so alienated our traditional allies that when Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump went to the Munich Security Conference this past week, they were humiliated on more than one occasi...
21 Helmi 201944min
