Deep State Radio

The Woman Who Invented Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan would not have been president nor would he have enjoyed the successes he had as a politician without…

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How Do We Get from Here to Accountability?

In an important ruling this week, Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote a scathing assessment of the Barr Department of Justice’s efforts…

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Is this Just Indian Summer for Democracy in America?

Joe Biden is doing a remarkable job.  Public support for Biden’s bold economic initiatives is exceptionally high.  But there are…

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A Stake Through the Heart of Reaganomics

We are in the middle of an economic sea-change in the United States.  The prevailing views of the past 40…

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Biden Gives the Most Kennedy-esque Rooseveltian Speech in History

Joe Biden spoke to a joint session of Congress and outlined an economic plan that exceeds in scope anything we…

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Biden’s First 100 Days, The Foreign Policy Perspective

Going from Donald Trump to Joe Biden has been as striking a political shift as most Americans have encountered in their…

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Will We Ever Have Real Police Reform in America?

In the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict, while there was a consensus that a degree of justice was achieved,…

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A Page is Turned: We Shift Our Focus from Old Threats to New Ones

Last week, President Biden announced the US would be pulling our last troops out of Afghanistan by September 11 of…

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A Tale of Two COVIDS

On the one hand, America’s vaccine roll out is making great progress.  On the other, in the last week COVID…

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A One on One with NYT Columnist Nick Kristof: Searching for Solutions from Here at Home to the World’s Hot Spots

Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof has set himself from other columnists by virtue of his deep reporting into…

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“The GOP Thinks of Politics Like Pro Wrestling”–A Conversation with Rep. Eric Swalwell

Rep. Eric Swalwell of California has emerged as one of the most important voices in the Democratic Party.  From his…

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How Can Joe Biden Avoid the Curse of 400 Rabbits?

The ancient Aztecs referred to the headache and misery following drunken debauchery as the “curse of 400 rabbits.”  Presidents need…

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It’s Not Too Early to Predict What Biden Era Politics Will Be Like

By this time during the presidency of the former guy, his national security advisor had been booted, the Muslim ban…

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Sorting the Good News from the Bad on COVID

The US is making great progress on vaccine distribution and national death tolls are falling.  But new variants are spreading…

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Things are Going Pretty Well…Maybe it’s Time to Start Worrying

It is a matter of conventional wisdom nearly everywhere that the Biden Administration is off to a strong start.  Which,…

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One-on-one with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Why It is So Important to Tell the Stories of Heroic Women

Too much of world history is written by men about men for men.  The result is that cultural biases of a…

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Standing Up to Anti-Asian Hate Crime: A One-on-One with Rep. Ted Lieu

As anti-Asian hate crimes continue across America, California Congressman Ted Lieu has become one of the foremost voices demanding action…

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Kibbitizpalooza: Advice for the Biden Administration as they Roll Out Their Policies

While we are only two months into the new administration (and it is getting good marks for those two months)…

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When Can We Go To War and Who Decides?

Few decisions a government can make are more consequential than deciding when the use of force is warranted.  In the…

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Ah, So This is What Having an Actual, Thought Out, Professional Foreign Policy Feels Like – Full Video

After four years of policy by Tweet that sometimes felt as if it were driven more by the indigestion of…

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