Why Anti-Democratic Populists Keep Winning Elections
Ben Rhodes, a former national security advisor to Barack Obama, has a theory. Based on interviews he did with journalists, activists, and dissidents facing anti-democratic movements around the world, ...
20 Aug 202440min
Don’t Miss These Upcoming Episodes of In The Room
In the Room will be covering national security, broadly defined, as the U.S. heads into an exceptionally consequential election and contends with multiple destabilizing dynamics around the world. Here...
13 Aug 20241min
Chicago Prepares for Protests at the DNC, Hoping To Forget 1968
The parallels between the 1968 Democratic National Convention and this year’s are undeniable: An incumbent president dropping out of the race. A party deeply divided over a brutal war. A nation arguin...
12 Aug 202438min
Does the Pentagon (or the Cops) Know What Side of the Bed You Sleep On?
In the wake of 9/11, a massive surveillance system quietly made its way onto our smartphones. The data of millions of Americans is for sale to the highest bidder — and it’s not always clear who’s buyi...
9 Juli 202441min
How Tiny Qatar Became a Global Player
These days when a thorny international conflict is resolved, more and more often a major player in the negotiation has been the small Persian Gulf state of Qatar. The country has made itself uniquely ...
2 Juli 202438min
The One Way Out of an Israeli-Palestinian Forever War
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman has been thinking about the Middle East since he was 15 years old and he’s been covering the region for 45 years. He remains adamant that the o...
25 Juni 202435min
The Rise, and Maybe Downfall, of Liberal Democracy
Veteran journalist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has made a career of putting hard questions to many of the world's most powerful people. Taking the temperature of global politics these days, he’s worri...
18 Juni 202440min
The Right-Wing Plan for Trump to Root Out the “Deep State Department”
You may have heard some ruckus about Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 887-page plan to overhaul the federal government, fire thousands of career bureaucrats and bring in loyalists if Trump wins...
11 Juni 202447min
