Slouching Past Jerusalem
In a week marked by a "stunning" announcement about U.S policy toward Jerusalem and more Russia revelations, is the biggest shock of all is that Trump's foreign policy is still so much like that of Ba...
8 Dec 201751min
Dumber by Design
As panelist Kori Schake recounts, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers once noted that if you staff an administration exclusively with "C" people you will get a "D" staff. He never contemplated th...
5 Dec 201751min
Deep State Radio's 50th Podcast Special
You would think that Deep State Radio would have a special celebration for our 50th podcast. You probably imagined a giant blow out in silo somewhere with confetti and an interpretative reading of th...
30 Nov 201751min
The Void: What is the Opposite of Foreign Policy?
In Sochi, Russia, Iran and Turkey got together to divvy up parts of the Middle East. It was eerily similar to a meeting 780 miles and 72 years earlier...in Yalta, where the allied powers met to discu...
28 Nov 201743min
A Very Deep State Thanksgiving
What are Deep State Radio nerds thankful for this Thanksgiving? We poll our experts and we get just the responses you would expect. One said he is thankful we have not had a nuclear war with North K...
22 Nov 201745min
Should We Hack? Does Democracy Have a Future in the Cyber Era?
You may think election meddling is as Russian as borscht but it is also as American as apple pie. We have been doing it for years. The question is do new technologies me more of the same or do they ...
21 Nov 201745min
Who Needs a State Department Anyway?
With Trump just back from an Asia trip that ran the gamut of outcomes from negligible to awful, the question turns again to what's going on with U.S. foreign policy. Specifically, we take a look at t...
16 Nov 201740min
Trump in Asia: He Didn't Start a Nuclear War! Yay.
The President is returning from Asia. He says it was the greatest trip there since Marco Polo. His defenders note that he didn't start screwing up too badly until a few days in. But then again, onc...
14 Nov 201749min
