This is Not Donald Trump's Planet Earth Anymore...and That's a Very Good Thing
The US has seen its influence plummet during the past four years as our president made everything including foreign policy about himself. That changed in an instant when Joe Biden was elected presiden...
24 Feb 202129min
Which is More Powerful, the Bully Pulpit or the Bullshit Pulpit?
Donald Trump introduced the truth-optional, bring your own dysfunction era to American politics and it made for good ratings. Now, he has been replaced by a president who rejects Trump's approaches, h...
24 Feb 202113min
American Kompromat: Why Don't Americans Care More that Trump was a Russian Asset?
Craig Unger's new book American Kompromat details the KGB recruitment of Donald Trump and how a man like Trump can become a valued Russian asset. It can all be legal. It can all be more or less out in...
23 Feb 202130min
Can the Biden Foreign Policy Team Live Up to Their Advance Billing?
The Biden foreign policy and national security teams arrived to choruses of praise for the experience of the members and their general positions. That said a van full of orangutans would have been gre...
22 Feb 202144min
Episode 1: Deep Thoughts with David Rothkopf
This is our first episode of Deep Thoughts with David Rothkopf, our new weekly feature available exclusively to our members. This week, David discusses the grim milestone of 500K deaths from Covid. Su...
22 Feb 202119min
On January 6, the Noose Was for Mike Pence...Now a Legal Noose Is Tightening Around Trump
While Trumpists may have celebrated that the disgraced former president was not convicted by the Senate and the Senators who voted to convict have been attacked for their show of conscience, the reali...
19 Feb 202149min
The Terrorist Next Door: The New War to Combat Domestic Extremism - Preview
In the latest in our "Ask the Blob" series (see links below for more about the name), host David Rothkopf is joined by Juliette Kayyem and Clint Watts (Bios Below). They discuss the rise of domestic t...
18 Feb 202113min
Promising Signs for a New Era in US Foreign Policy
Representative Ted Deutch (D-Florida) is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism. He joined the podcast to discuss the...
16 Feb 202130min
