How the US May Have Lost a War It Didn't Fight
When Syria was pulled apart seven years ago, the United States opted to stay on the sidelines. It was clear that President Bashar Al-Assad was a bad guy, but it was far less clear who the good guys we...
6 Aug 201829min
What We Learned From an Attack on Facebook
Bonus Episode: Facebook recently revealed that trolls had been at it again: creating pages intended to drive Americans ever further apart, turning the volume of online political discourse up to 11. Al...
3 Aug 201828min
Why Germany Isn’t Picking Up More of NATO’s Tab
One of the great strains on NATO is the question of who’s paying how much for what. But that’s not a new problem. Almost as long as the alliance has been around - 69 years - there’s been arguing over ...
31 Jul 201830min
The Taboo Against Chemical Weapons Is Eroding
Bashar Al Assad has gassed his own people. An assassin used VX to murder Kim Jong Un’s half-brother. Now, Russia has allegedly used an obscure Cold War era chemical weapon to assassinate an old spy on...
26 Jul 201842min
Your Handy-Dandy Guide to the Russian Mafia
From blue-tattooed psychopaths to “businessmen” with a twist, Russia’s vory developed a code all their own - if you can call it that. Mark Galeotti takes us through the history of Russia’s mafia and h...
16 Jul 201849min
Is the Land of the Free on the ‘Road to Unfreedom’?
This week we talk with the author of “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” Timothy Snyder, about the current threat coming out of the East. He argues, in “The Road to Unfreedom,” that there’...
9 Jul 201821min
Rumors of Peace While Embedded With Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is America’s longest war and the cynical view is that it’ll never end. Marty Skovlund Jr. doesn’t think that’s true. He just returned from Afghanistan where he embedded with American Speci...
3 Jul 201829min
China’s Stealing Our AI, but May Not Have to for Long
Artificial intelligence poses a number of different threats. It can make existing weapons more sophisticated and dangerous, it can help develop new weapons entirely and it can easily be used to create...
26 Jun 201826min
