Need to Know

Ah, summer. we hardly knew ye. And yet here we are and it's already September. Policymakers are gearing up for a busy Autumn, so this episode gets us up to speed on some things we may have missed in t...

8 Sep 202050min

Abraham Denmark comes aboard the Need To Know book chat crew, to discuss his new book "US Strategy in the Asian Century," in which he discusses our competition with Asia - not just with China - and ho...

18 Aug 202022min

A new guest joins me today.  Merissa Khurma of the Wilson Center's Middle East Program comes on the show to discuss the situation in Lebanon.  Political unrest has been growing for some time and the e...

14 Aug 202021min

The clock is ticking on TikTok and WeChat. With executive orders to restrict access in the US, legislation to bar the apps from government devices, and a general unease, Rui Zhong comes back to explai...

11 Aug 202017min

Nina Jankowicz comes back to discuss her new book "How To Lose the Information War." It's a fun discussion about human nature, regulation, great powers, we even throw a little Shakespeare in there. So...

21 Jul 202021min

Duncan Wood and Chris Wilson come back to help us understand how a dip in the Mexican economy can affect USMCA implementation and how a visit from the Mexican President to the US plays politically in ...

7 Jul 202043min

We are living through a historic moment.  In this episode, I talk with author Dorothy Crawford, who wrote an excellent book called "Deadly Companions: How Microbes Have Shaped Our History."  She does ...

2 Jul 202019min

Asia Program Deputy Director Michael Kugelman explains the border dispute between China and India, which leads to an explanation of the complex web of relationships in the South Asia region.  There's ...

19 Jun 202018min