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The Accountability Conundrum: How Do We Form Commissions to Investigate 1/6 or COVID in the Current Political Environment?
When the 9/11 Commission was formed in the wake of the Al Qaeda attacks on the US, the current was united in grief and anger but politically polarized and it was very difficult to find a path forward that would be…
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This is Not Donald Trump’s Planet Earth Anymore…and That’s a Very Good Thing
The US has seen its influence plummet during the past four years as our president made everything including foreign policy about himself. That changed in an instant when Joe Biden was elected president, but now we must come to grips…
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Which is More Powerful, the Bully Pulpit or the Bullshit Pulpit?
Donald Trump introduced the truth-optional, bring your own dysfunction era to American politics and it made for good ratings. Now, he has been replaced by a president who rejects Trump’s approaches, his use of social media, his melodrama, his lies…
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Which is More Powerful, the Bully Pulpit or the Bullshit Pulpit? Full Video
Donald Trump introduced the truth-optional, bring your own dysfunction era to American politics and it made for good ratings. Now, he has been replaced by a president who rejects Trump’s approaches, his use of social media, his melodrama, his lies…
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American Kompromat: Why Don’t Americans Care More that Trump was a Russian Asset?
Craig Unger’s new book American Kompromat details the KGB recruitment of Donald Trump and how a man like Trump can become a valued Russian asset. It can all be legal. It can all be more or less out in the…
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Can the Biden Foreign Policy Team Live Up to Their Advance Billing?
The Biden foreign policy and national security teams arrived to choruses of praise for the experience of the members and their general positions. That said a van full of orangutans would have been greeted as an improvement to Trump & his motley…
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On January 6, the Noose Was for Mike Pence…Now a Legal Noose Is Tightening Around Trump
While Trumpists may have celebrated that the disgraced former president was not convicted by the Senate and the Senators who voted to convict have been attacked for their show of conscience, the reality is that Trump’s legal prospects are not…
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The Terrorist Next Door: The New War to Combat Domestic Extremism – Full Video
In the latest in our “Ask the Blob” series (see links below for more about the name), host David Rothkopf is joined by Juliette Kayyem and Clint Watts (Bios Below). They discuss the rise of domestic terrorism and what can…
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The Terrorist Next Door: The New War to Combat Domestic Extremism
In the latest in our “Ask the Blob” series (see links below for more about the name), host David Rothkopf is joined by Juliette Kayyem and Clint Watts (Bios Below). They discuss the rise of domestic terrorism and what can…
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Promising Signs for a New Era in US Foreign Policy
Representative Ted Deutch (D-Florida) is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism. He joined the podcast to discuss the promising first moves of the Biden foreign policy team with regard…
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Where Does the Acquittal of Donald Trump Leave Us?
For the second time in as many years, Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate, this time for inciting insurrection. Even with the overwhelming evidence the impeachment managers brought forth, just 7 Republican Senators voted for conviction. Where does this…
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When is an Open and Shut Case Not an Open and Shut Case?
The House Impeachment managers proved beyond any reasonable doubt that Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the US government that resulted in six deaths over 140 injuries and profound damage to our democracy. Good as they were, we have to…