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To start the new year, Wilson Center CEO, Former Congresswoman Jane Harman joins us to discuss the protests and riots at the Capitol on January 6th, including a possibility for the parties to reconcil...

15 Jan 202116min

Tom Kellermann of VMware was prescient in our last episode, suggesting there was more going on than we then knew about cyber intrusion into corporate and government networks. Now we know more, so we t...

22 Dec 202017min

Tom Kellermann, the Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at VMware Inc, and Wilson Center Global Fellow stops by to talk about the continuing escalation of attacks in cyberspace, and recommendations for the...

11 Dec 202023min

Global Health Policy watcher Alex Long joins me again to discuss the progress being made on a COVID-19 vaccine but also how in the world do you distribute 7 billion of them?  Policy and Practice come ...

2 Dec 202026min

The recently announced Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement brings together a trade bloc of Asian nations.  But what is it exactly?  Is it significant?  And what is its relevan...

20 Nov 202022min

Over the last 20 years we have heard a lot of plans to take American and coalition troops out of Afghanistan.  The most recent announcement to bring more home prior to the next administration entering...

18 Nov 202022min

A few months ago, we heard a lot of concern about how COVID-19 was going to affect Africa when it arrived there.  But many of the assumptions that were held about the continent have failed to play out...

29 Okt 202027min

It has its ups and downs, but on the whole when the US looks at Europe, we see general stability and a lot of democracy, and a lot of allies.  But Dan Hamilton is here to remind us why Europe matters ...

30 Sep 202021min