How Cocaine Fuels America’s Longest War
Cocaine is the second most popular illicit drug in the world and it’s controlled by a black market regulated by violence. As America’s drug war edges close to its fiftieth birthday, there is no end in...
8 Jul 20201h 7min
The Robot Revolution Is Already Here
This week we’re joined by P.W. Singer, co-author of Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution.The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.Stray thoughts on the Bonus Army.The future of ...
3 Jul 20201h 1min
European Policing From the Carabinieri to the Stasi
Elisabeth Braw is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. RUSI is the oldest defense think tank in the world and Braw leads its Mod...
26 Jun 20201h 2min
The Difference Between Obedience and Deference
Our guest this week is Pauline Kaurin. Kaurin is the Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics at the US Naval War College and the author of the new book On Obedience: Contrasting Philosophies f...
18 Jun 20201h 3min
Why These Protests Are Different Than 1968
Our guest today is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a historian and author best known for Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. He’s also written the forthcoming Reaganland: Am...
5 Jun 202059min
The Rise of The Teenage Terrorist
The neo-Nazi movement can’t keep it together. After a series of high profile outings, murders, conspiracy charges, and other assorted run-ins with authorities, the leadership of the Neo-Nazi movement ...
29 Mai 202052min
How (Not) To Plan Coup in Venezuela
Bellingcat’s Giancarlo Fiorella is here to walk us through what may go down in history as the dumbest attempted coup of all time. On May 3, American mercenaries and Venezuelan exiles attempted to ente...
18 Mai 202052min
The Ecoterrorists Acting in "Feral Defense of Wild Nature"
Ecoterrorism isn’t a word you hear a lot these days and it’s usually associated with groups like Greenpeace. That might be changing. In 2011, a biotechnology researcher was shot and killed in Mexico. ...
9 Mai 20201h 5min
