Deep State Radio
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Jul- 2021 -2 July
Are We on the Road to Political Apartheid in the US?
The most recent Supreme Court decisions remind us that on our current path voter suppression and more power be given…
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1 July
A Rhyme of History
The U.S. was questioning its ability to lead the world. The structures of the global economy seemed outdated. There were…
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Jun- 2021 -28 June
Is the Secret Objective of US Foreign Policy to be Just Tough Enough Not to Have to Do Anything?
There are many rumblings of a new Cold War brewing between the US and China. But the governments in Washington…
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22 June
Deep State Exclusive: The Very First Podcast of 2025!
To celebrate the fourth anniversary of Deep State Radio (which is to say something like 750 podcasts and a growing…
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18 June
Perhaps It’s Not Quite Time to Give Up on Our System of Justice
The lack of accountability for Donald Trump and his cronies for the January 6th insurrection, for the serial obstruction of…
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17 June
A Far Cry from Helsinki: Biden and Putin to Set “Guardrails” and Manage Expectations
When Vladimir Putin sits down with Joe Biden, both men will be well familiar with each other and Putin will…
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15 June
Make the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar
Financial Times Editor-at-Large Gillian Tett has distinguished herself as a brilliant observer of markets and politics. That is in part…
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14 June
Is There a Future for the Democratic Party?
With Republicans variously arguing that vaccines make people magnetic and that the Forest Service should be able to reroute the Moon’s…
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8 June
The New Map: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin
Pultizer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin is widely regarded as the world’s foremost analyst and commentator on energy issues. His books have…
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8 June
Let’s Make Diplomacy Boring Again
Joe Biden is off to Europe. He will meet with Allies and with Vladimir Putin. Under Trump, that was a…
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4 June
This is a Song About Disappointment
The Democrats keep bending over backwards to “do what’s right” or “preserve bipartisanship.” Republicans meanwhile have made it clear they…
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May- 2021 -28 May
Where’s Your Sense of Urgency? It Won’t Be 2024 When Our Democracy is Undone, it’ll be 2021.
Many are rightly focused on the importance of 2024’s presidential elections and the midterms in 2022. But if we do…
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26 May
Special Episode: The CFR’s Richard Haass on the State of the World
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, is one of the world’s leading thinkers on international affairs. His most…
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25 May
America’s Message to the Middle East: We’re Broken and Our Focus Needs to be on Taking Care of Business at Home
We’ve come to the end of another violent cycle between Israelis and Palestinians. Generally, the Biden Administration has gotten good…
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21 May
How Do You Say “We Are Being Attacked by Radicals Who Want to Destroy Democracy” in a Way that Will Make People Care?
This week, the vast majority of Republicans on Capitol Hill sought to block a bipartisan commission that would investigate the…
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20 May
When of the Two Most Likely Solutions One is Impossible and the other is Even Less Likely, What Then?
The past two weeks have revealed that the Israel-Palestine conflict remains far from a solution. Indeed, of the two most…
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18 May
The Cracking Sounds You Hear in the Old US-Israel Relationship
The Biden Administration is working hard to maintain a fairly traditional front for US-Israel relations during the current crisis. Which…
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14 May
What’s Cooking in the Laboratories of Democracy
It was Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who popularized the phrase “states are laboratories of democracy.” That has never been…
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12 May
THE DEVASTATING INDIA COVID-19 CRISIS
On this special episode of Deep State Radio, we discuss the Covid-19 crisis in India with Washington Post Global Opinion…
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11 May
The One in Which Rosa Suggests That He or She With the Most Instagram Followers Should Rule
The US could be back in the Iran nuclear accord by the end of the month. There are plenty of…
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