The State and Fate of America’s Republic: A Conversation With Thomas L. Friedman
A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the state and fate of the American Republic is uncertain and precarious. At home, an unprecedented expansion of presidential power has undermined nor...
29 Jan 56min
Is Iran Reaching a Tipping Point?
Protests in Iran have now engulfed its major cities and all 31 provinces, creating a mass movement incorporating all elements of Iranian society, despite a comprehensive internet blackout. The regime...
27 Jan 51min
Is Trump’s Foreign Policy Out of Control?
In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump has pursued an aggressive foreign policy that has shattered the norms and conventions that have guided almost all of his Republican and Dem...
15 Jan 51min
The Trump Administration and Venezuela: What Now?
The decision by the U.S. President Donald Trump administration to seize Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to stand trial in the United States reflects the administration...
8 Jan 1h 7min
Phase One or Done? Assessing Trump’s Gaza Plan
As 2025 draws to a close, the fate of the Trump administration’s twenty point plan to end the war in Gaza, disarming Hamas and withdrawing Israeli forces, and facilitate good governance, security and ...
22 Dec 20251h 2min
The Trump Administration and Congress: A Conversation with Senator Chris Van Hollen
It’s no coincidence that the framers—reflecting the importance of the legislative branch—laid out the responsibilities and powers of Congress in Article I, with the executive second, and the judiciary...
9 Dec 202550min
Trump and MBS: What’s in Store for U.S.-Saudi Relations?
Perhaps no country in the Middle East has attracted more interest of the Trump administration than Saudi Arabia. President Trump took his first foreign trip there during his first term and he remains ...
18 Nov 202547min
America at Home and Abroad: A Conversation with Nicholas Kristof
From covering the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and South Sudan, to examining America’s evolving status on the global stage, to mounting concerns about American democracy under the Trump Administration, P...
4 Nov 202550min
