Trump Two Years After His Election: Who Gets the Lower Grade, the President or the People?
With the midterm elections days away, our experts discuss just what the past two years have taught us about Trump, about the American electorate, and about the world. We also talk about where we are ...
1 Nov 201835min
What if the Problem Isn't that We're Leaderless But That They Are Leading Us in the Wrong Direction?
Brazil elects a hard-right candidate who is a threat to democracy. The BRICs are no longer the harbingers of progress we thought them to be. Angela Merkel, who has stepped up in the Era of Trump to ...
30 Okt 201839min
If Every Teacher Had a Portable Nuclear Weapon There Would Be No More School Shootings
The Kashoggi murder has rocked the Middle East. The underlying crime was so horrific, its cover-up has been so pathetic and unpersuasive, and the position of the US administration has only compounded...
25 Okt 201846min
The Hell of Good Intentions...and the Pleasures of Dubious Ones...
Harvard's Stephen Walt has written a timely book called "The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy"...which is just exactly the kind of subject you wo...
22 Okt 201842min
1-on-1 with Ivo Daalder: A Discussion of the New Book "The Empty Throne"
Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay, two of America's leading foreign policy experts have written an in-depth analysis of Donald Trump's tenure to date as president. It is a withering critique, but more im...
18 Okt 201824min
What Foreign Policy Shifts May Follow a Dem Victory in November?
While the Trump Administration may get much Trumpier with the personnel changes expected after Election Day, a Democratic victory on November 6th that brought them control of the House of Representati...
18 Okt 201843min
Fascist, Incompetent or Both: Assessing Trumpism Today
In the Financial Times our own Ed Luce discusses how Trump's attacks on the truth and his enemies have moved us toward fascism and where he has fallen short of achieving key steps on the road toward t...
16 Okt 201849min
Values, I’ll Show You Values…How Much Will Pay Me to Set Aside My Values?
Values matter. Well, at least the appearance of having values matter. Well, at least they always did until Donald Trump came along. Now, around the world foreign leaders know that the US is in it f...
11 Okt 201849min
