
Only the Rich Can Play: A Conversation with David Wessel
Opportunity Zones sounded like a great idea, provide tax benefits for wealthy Americans to invest in 8,000 areas in the United States that don't receive enough investment and development and everyone ...
27 Okt 202129min

Managing Mega-Threats: From China to Facebook...and a Biden Foreign Policy Report Card
As the Biden Administration shifts the focus of U.S. foreign policy to emerging issues and how America can lead in the century ahead, certain megapowers loom as complex threats. One is China. Another ...
25 Okt 202129min

America is Just Going to Have to Learn to Accept Good News
The Biden Administration, it seems, is on the verge of winning approval for its Build Back Better Package. If the deal is roughly as reported it will be between $1.5 and 2 trillion in fully paid for i...
22 Okt 202139min

Spy World Frenemies
Mossad’s got a killer new boss and the US is buying China-made drones. Jeff Stein and Jeanne Meserve drill down on both. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/pri...
21 Okt 202145min

There is Nothing for You Here: A Conversation with Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill may have risen to public prominence during Donald Trump's first impeachment but there is much more to her story than just her time in the White House. In her new book "There is Nothing for ...
20 Okt 202132min

How Many Times Over Must We Be Able to Destroy the World to Prove We are Not Wimps?
America's nuclear weapons submarine fleet has the capability to produce something like 40,000 Hiroshimas. But it is just one leg in our nuclear forces. What possible reason, asks our guest Joe Cirinci...
18 Okt 202140min

How Many Commissions, Presidents and Senators Does It Take to Change a Supreme Court?
The first report from the commission looking at ways to change the Supreme Court is out and its conclusions are...well, they seem to be thoughtful but unlikely to produce change in the near future. Fo...
14 Okt 202136min

The Peanut Butter Spies, CIA’s China Initiative & Secret Service Burnout
Washington Post intelligence reporter Shane Harris discusses odd happenings in the spook world with Jeff Stein, and former Secret Service Special Agent Jonathan Wackrow analyses a new report on tankin...
14 Okt 202153min




















