The Autocrat's Playbook
How does a democracy die? In stops and starts – says our guest this week – and usually, from within. Steve Levitsky is a professor of politics at Harvard and the co-author of the recent bestseller How...
22 Jun 201820min
WIRED editor-in-chief Nick Thompson
It was the best of times for US-North Korean relations. It was the worst of times for the US relations with its G7 allies. The average geopolitical observer would be forgiven for feeling more than a l...
15 Jun 201817min
Populism Ain’t About the People
Trump. Brexit. 5Star. Marine Le Pen. Something, to coin a phrase, is happening here. But what’s not happening, says Princeton Professor and populism scholar Jan Muller, is the will of “the People.” Un...
1 Jun 201815min
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
This week Ian interviews Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel and the most highly decorated soldier in the country’s history. Given the news out of that part of the Middle East this week, h...
18 Mai 201819min
Jonah Goldberg Goes Tribal
National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg admits that he is not pure (a pure conservative, that is). Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred ...
11 Mai 201813min
The Golden Hot Tub
In this week's episode, Anthony Scaramucci opens up. Fair warning: he goes Full Mooch. Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platf...
7 Mai 201813min
The French Connection
Trump and Macron. Moon and Kim. Love, it seems, is in the air. Sure is preferable to nuclear fallout. On the show this week we cover these budding romances and sit down with NPR's All Things Considere...
3 Mai 201810min
In Syria it’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ (For Assad)
Following an overnight round of US-backed airstrikes in Syria earlier this month, President Trump famously declared via tweet fiat, “Mission Accomplished!” Lara Setrakian, who founded the independent ...
21 Apr 201814min
