Pre 9/11 Vibes with Ali Soufan
"If you look at the eve of 9/11, the full membership of al-Qaeda was 400 people. But today the people who adhere to bin Laden-ism, to the ideas of Osama bin Laden, are thousands upon thousands. Some e...
17 Mar 201813min
Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Remember when President Trump allegedly referred to many African nations as "sh&#hole countries"? Soon after in Davos, he met with a prominent leader of one of those countries: Rwandan president and h...
2 Mar 201812min
From Vlad to Worse
The Beach Boys aren't the only ones picking up good vibrations. According to former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, Russian surveillance of his Moscow residence was so intense that officia...
23 Feb 201822min
The Rescue Situation
The worst time to have a global crisis of diplomacy is during a global crisis of refugees. In today's show, David Miliband, the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, talks about hum...
16 Feb 201815min
You Win Some, You Luge Some
What do Mike Pence and Kim Jong-un's sister have in common? They're both trying not to piss off their bosses at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics. On today's show, we get into the #sportsdiplomacy spirit ...
9 Feb 201815min
Maggie Haberman
The night before this episode posted, The New York Times' star White House reporter Maggie Haberman published a bombshell scoop that President Trump wanted to fire Mueller as early as June of last yea...
26 Jan 201825min
Preet Bharara on the Mueller Investigation
"Every decision is made not based on principle or truth, but rather whether or not it is good or bad for Donald Trump." Sometimes getting fired can be a badge of honor. Especially if the Trump Adminis...
19 Jan 201818min
You Break it You Brexit
Look, 2018 is not going to be pretty, no matter what sh 😱thole you find yourself in. For our first episode of the year, former UK chancellor George Osborne lays out his less-than-jolly prediction for...
17 Jan 201815min
