Wait, what? A president behaving presidentially? News that's...actually...good?
Yes, you heard that right. We've come to 50 days into the Biden presidency and things are actually working, getting better, Spring is in the air, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Admittedly, ...
12 Mar 202149min
Next Steps Toward Making the Country Safer and Healthier
There is good news in America--from progress in getting relief to Americans wracked by COVID and its economic aftershocks to slowly getting a new government in place including, finally, the confirmati...
10 Mar 202113min
"A Foreign Policy for the American People"
Last week Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech outlining the priorities of Biden-Harris Administration foreign policy. It differed from past such speeches in focus, tone and objectives...
8 Mar 202144min
Washington Got You Pissed Off? Us Too!
Weren't we supposed to get a break from being angry at DC? At the political inanity? The recklessness? The law breaking with impunity? Sure its the same old people being inane and reckless and breakin...
4 Mar 202146min
Tangled Up in Blue: Policing at a Crossroads
Deep State Radio listeners know Rosa Brooks as one of our founding regulars, a scholar on constitutional and international law and a national security expert. But for the past few years she has served...
3 Mar 202114min
The Daughters of Kobani: The Women Who Beat ISIS
ISIS was as unstoppable as their beliefs and actions were unconscionable when they arrived in Kobani. But there they were defeated by a force that not only outfought them on the battlefield but simult...
2 Mar 202128min
Not an Enemy, Not Quite an Ally: America's Reset with Saudi Arabia...and the Middle East
Last week, the Biden Administration released the official conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. It also deta...
1 Mar 202145min
The Accountability Conundrum: How Do We Form Commissions to Investigate 1/6 or COVID in the Current Political Environment?
When the 9/11 Commission was formed in the wake of the Al Qaeda attacks on the US, the current was united in grief and anger but politically polarized and it was very difficult to find a path forward ...
25 Feb 202153min
