In the Brush in Brooks County
Last month at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University o...
2 Nov 201955min
Introducing the Arbiters of Truth
This is the first episode in a new special series—"Arbiters of Truth"—about disinformation and online speech in the lead up to the 2020 election. From Russian election interference, to scandals over p...
31 Okt 201938min
Phil Mudd on CIA and Enhanced Interrogations
Philip Mudd is currently a counterterrorism and national security analyst with CNN, but before that, Mudd spent 25 years working at the Central Intelligence Agency, on the NSC staff, and eventually at...
30 Okt 201956min
Special Edition: Syria and The Al-Baghdadi Raid
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, died in a raid conducted by U.S. Special Operation Forces. The president used highly unusual lan...
29 Okt 201943min
The Report, Episode 13: Pardons on the Table
It’s January 2018. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates are in a whole lot of trouble. The past is catching up to them. Three months earlier, they’d both been indicted on multiple felony counts and now it loo...
27 Okt 201955min
Sloat and Thompson on the Shenanigans in the UK
It's been a wild few weeks in British politics: possible new elections scheduled; Brexit impending and then delayed (we think); a possible Brexit deal signed, but not yet ratified; and the personality...
26 Okt 201955min
Shorts: What William Taylor’s Testimony Adds to the Ukraine Story
Amb. William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on Tuesday in a close-door meeting with Congressional committees involved in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Tuesday aftern...
23 Okt 201918min
James Verini and Dan Gabriel on the Battle for Mosul
In 2014, the precipitous fall of the ancient city of Mosul signaled the sudden rise to power of the Islamic State, a group that would soon declare a new caliphate from Mosul's Great Mosque. Two years ...
23 Okt 201945min
