Jim Baker on AI and Counterintelligence
The United States has become the global leader in both defense and private-sector AI. Inevitably, this has led to an environment in which adversary and ally governments alike may seek to identify and ...
25 Sep 201846min
Elsa Kania on China’s Quantum Quest
If you ask scientists what is most likely to kick off the next great wave of technological change, a good number will answer “quantum mechanics”—a field whose physics Albert Einstein once described as...
22 Sep 201845min
Bruce Schneier on 'Click Here to Kill Everybody'
Security technologist Bruce Schneier's latest book, Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World, argues that it won't be long before everything modern society relies...
18 Sep 201842min
Special Edition: Paul Manafort “Breaks”
On Friday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered a plea agreement with the special counsel. To figure out what it means for Manafort, the Mueller investigation, and President Trump, Ben...
14 Sep 201849min
John Brennan and Jerrold Nadler on 20 Months Under Trump
The challenges that President Donald Trump has posed to the rule of law are well documented, from his delegitimization of the law enforcement investigation into his campaign and conduct in office, to ...
12 Sep 201847min
Special Edition: Kavanaugh vs. the Committee with No Bull, Part II
Brett Kavanaugh spent Thursday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his second day of marathon questioning about his qualifications to join the Supreme Court. But on this podcast, we cut dow...
7 Sep 20182h 43min
Special Edition: Kavanaugh vs. the Committee with No Bull, Part I
Judge Brett Kavanaugh faced the Senate Judiciary Committee in Day 1 of a two-day marathon Q&A session for his nomination as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. We sat through it all so you don'...
6 Sep 20182h 12min
John Sipher on Human Sources in Moscow
The New York Times reports that CIA human sources in Moscow are drying up. The newspaper speculates that this may be because of the political environment in the United States, an environment in which ...
1 Sep 201836min
