The Biggest National Security Threat We Face is President Trump: A Conversation with Secretary Leon Panetta
Few Americans in our history have had such wide-ranging and distinguished careers as Leon Panetta. A former Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence and White House Chief of Staff as wel...
25 Sep 201944min
Watershed or More Water Under the Bridge: Examining the Ukraine Whistleblower Case
Every few weeks Trump does something that leads everyone to exclaim, "Now he really has done it! This will be the end of him." And every few weeks after people can hardly remember what the last surefi...
24 Sep 201948min
Donald Trump is the MRSA of Presidents: A Grave Threat Our System Can't Fight Off
Our political system has built into it a kind of immune system to protect it from abuse and abusers. But just as how in life, bacteria develop that are resistant to drugs, so too in our system we have...
20 Sep 201952min
Anyone Have Any Ideas for What Dem Foreign Policy Should Be? Bueller? Bueller?
We're getting into the serious campaigning for president and so far it's fair to say foreign policy hasn't really been front and center. Or anywhere to speak of. Should it be? Does it matter? Would sa...
17 Sep 201958min
Stand by For An Avalanche of Sh*t: Trump Foreign Policy Post-Bolton & Pre-Election
John Bolton may not be National Security Advisor any more but it hardly matters because he wasn't actually ever really National Security Advisor to begin with. Trump never empowered him. Trump doesn't...
13 Sep 201943min
The Impeachment Investigation Kicks Into Gear: A Newsmaker Conversation with Rep. Ted Lieu
Today the House Judiciary Committee announced the new guidelines for its impeachment investigation. We are joined on this special edition of National Security Magazine by Representative Ted Lieu of Ca...
12 Sep 201925min
Summer's Over, Now Things are Really Going to Get Crazy
We bet you think that there was plenty of crazy to go around this summer and that you were as unsettled by each day's news as you could be. Nonsense. We live in Trump times where yesterday's inconceiv...
10 Sep 201948min
Putin's Hand Puppet Makes An Appearance in France
In the second of two episodes following up on the G7 meeting in Biarritz, Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Evelyn Farkas of the German Marshall Fund discuss w...
29 Aug 201946min
