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We do not have a federal government
The most charitable interpretation of the events surrounding the Russian bounty scandal is that we have suffered a catastrophic breakdown in our policy processes. But the scandal likely reveals other, even larger, internal crises–a government wide set of leadership failures…
Deep State Radio
What’s the Worst Thing About the Russian-Afghan Bounty on Allied Troops Scandal?
The Russian-Afghan bounty on allied troops scandal is rocking the White House. But it is actually many scandals in one. There is the scandal that Russia sought to pay to have US and allied forces killed, the scandal associated with…
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Justice Started Out Blind, But at the Moment that May be the Least of Her Problems
Have we ever seen an Attorney General so contemptuous of the law? A Department of Justice so dedicated to promulgating injustice? A judiciary so full of political hacks and incompetents? The U.S. justice system is broken and few weeks have…
Deep State Radio
Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz on the Way Out from the Crisis
We face an extraordinary challenge–a massive economic crisis and a great public health crisis, each feeding into one another. Our government’s response thus far has exacerbated both. To recover is going to require big ideas and bold execution from the next president…
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The Song of the Summer of 2020 is Likely to Be a Sad One
To commemorate the beginning of summer, we take a look at the issues likely to dominate the headlines between now and Labor Day, from COVID to unrest in the streets, the economic crisis to potential cyberattacks, from foreign policy threats…
Deep State Radio
The COVID Prognosis is Bleak
Everywhere you go, you get the sense that people are “over” COVID…except the hospitals that are filling up across the country. In fact, the anti-science populism of some political leaders and the short-attention span of some in the media are combining…
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Trump is Terrible, No One is Surprised and He Could Still Win
John Bolton’s book has Washington in a tizzy. Whether the rest of the country cares that much, whether anyone will see it as revelatory, whether it has any impact on the election and whether Bolton will ever see a penny…
Deep State Radio
Third Anniversary Episode: The Protests are America Healing
In honor of three years of doing “Deep State Radio”, the original gang of Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law Center, Kori Schake of AEI and David Sanger of the New York Times join host David Rothkopf for a discussion of…
Deep State Radio
Is This a “Break Glass in Emergency” Moment?
Donald Trump says he’s never even heard of Brett McGurk, but that’s what he says whenever he feels jilted. On today’s episode of Deep State Radio, Rosa Brooks stands in for David Rothkopf as host, and DSR regulars Ryan Goodman and…
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The Top 5 Economic Steps a Biden Administration Should Take – Full Video Episode
We are in a deep economic crisis today, the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. While some recovery from the worst of the crisis is possible prior to the election, whomever takes office in 2021 will have major challenges…
Deep State Radio
The Top 5 Economic Steps a Biden Administration Should Take in 2021
We are in a deep economic crisis today, the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. While some recovery from the worst of the crisis is possible prior to the election, whomever takes office in 2021 will have major challenges…
Deep State Radio
A Category 5 Global Economic Hurricane is Looming
According to economist Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard’s Kennedy School, the economic crisis triggered by the COVID pandemic is going to be very different from any we have faced in memory. It will be different in scope, in severity, in what…
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