Trump and the Crisis of Liberalism: A Conversation With Francis Fukuyama
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election comes at a moment of turbulence for global democracy. It’s been a year marked by almost universal backlash against incumbent leaders by vo...
21 Nov 202435min
Bonus: The World of Trump 2.0: A Conversation With Daniel Drezner and Kori Schake
Earlier this week, Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, ushering in a new era of uncertainty at home and abroad. In a special bonus episode, Foreign Affairs Editor Da...
8 Nov 202448min
The Return of Political Violence: A Conversation With Robert Pape
If there’s a thread that connects unsettling trends across domestic and international affairs today, it’s the return of forms of violence that we once thought were more or less obsolete. That’s true o...
7 Nov 202431min
What Trump and the American Right See in Foreign Autocrats: A Conversation With Beverly Gage
When Donald Trump praises foreign dictators—from Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un to Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin—the typical reaction is shock and dismay. But in fact, Beverly Gage points out in a recen...
24 Okt 202436min
The View From Israel One Year After October 7: A Conversation With Ari Shavit
A year has passed since Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel sparked a brutal war in Gaza—one that is now spreading north into Lebanon and threatening to reel in bigger powers, including the United Sta...
10 Okt 202438min
The Middle East, China, and the Case Against American Isolationism: A Conversation With Condoleezza Rice
The world Americans face today is more complicated—and dangerous—than it has been for decades. Yet there is a growing, and in many ways understandable, desire to turn inward—a sense that there is litt...
27 Sep 202435min
Can America Still Lead the Global Energy Transition? A Conversation With Brian Deese
The United States is grappling with two of the biggest challenges it has ever faced: the rise of China and the threat of catastrophic climate change. At home, the Biden administration has forged a gre...
19 Sep 202433min
Can India Change Course? A Conversation With Pratap Bhanu Mehta
In June, Narendra Modi was sworn in for a third consecutive term as India’s prime minister. But—in a surprise outcome—his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, failed to win a parliamentary majority. Now...
6 Sep 202443min
