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Time after time, COVID has delivered worst case scenarios. So why, now, would we rely on our hope that those scenarios–new variants, failures of leadership, new outbreaks–will not occur? Will the holidays bring people back together? Or will they see…

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Accidents Will Happen

Chinese espionage expert Matthew Brazil and Jeff Stein break down the controversy about Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley’s backchannel contact with his Chinese counterpart, and Jeanne Meserve and transnational crime expert Tom Sanderson discuss the emergence of Talibani Afghanistan as…

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“8 Year-Old Assholes Cannot be Shamed”: The Big National Security Scandal Nobody is Talking About

After 9/11, investigators concluded one of the factors that put America at risk was that only 57 percent of nominees for top national security positions had been confirmed by the Congress and were in place. Today, that number is just…

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Sometimes the unthinkable happens: A conversation with Rebecca Frankel

“Into the Forest” by Rebecca Frankel is more than just one of the best books of the year, it is a revealing journey into what makes us human…the good, the bad, the noble and the horrific. It reads like a…

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How Do We Win the War Here at Home?

With every passing day, it looks less like we have one nation divided by differing political beliefs and more like we have two warring countries battling each other within shared borders. One side represents and seeks to preserve the United…

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When the President is a Madman How Patriotism and Service are Redefined

In the news recently, reports that General Mark Milley sought to counsel Chinese leaders in way that might avoid accidental conflict have caused controversy. Was Milley doing his duty? Or was he undermining his commander-in-chief? Similarly, it is reported that…

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Girding for New and Old Threats

Extremism expert Kathleen Belew talks with Jeanne Meserve about new factors raising the potential for violence at Sept.18 Capitol protests, while former senior CIA ops official Dan Hoffman tells Jeff Stein that the Kabul collapse has given Al Qaeda and…

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How Do You Feel About the Urge to Surge?

While Congress holds hearings questioning the Secretary of State about the conduct of America’s exit from Afghanistan, it probably should also turn its attention to drawing the lessons of the 20 years of warfare, sacrifice and frustration that proceeded that…

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The Talibanization of the Supreme Court

The midnight decision of the Supreme Court that basically allowed a technicality to sweep aside the constitutional right to an abortion that has been a fact of American life for half a century bodes very ill for the future of…

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The Man Who Loved Spying

In a riveting new memoir, former senior CIA officer Doug London celebrates a career in espionage, but in a lengthy conversation with host Jeff Stein, he offer candid, even brutal observations on how 20 years of counterterrorism warped the agency’s…

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Here, Right Matters…or Does It?: A Conversation with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman knew when he went into the Trump White House to work on the National Security Council that he may be asked to do things that were “awful but lawful.” As a serving army officer in those…

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America’s 2000 Yard Stare: Coping With Crises Closing in on All Sides

COVID. Wildfires in the west. Hurricanes in the Gulf and storms in the East. A women’s right to choose under siege. A corrupted justice system. Economic inequality. Racial division. Democracy in the ICU. Any one of these crises would be…

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