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Mar- 2021 -23 March
Ah, So This is What Having an Actual, Thought Out, Professional Foreign Policy Feels Like
After four years of policy by Tweet that sometimes felt as if it were driven more by the indigestion of…
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19 March
Russia Meddled! Trump Lied! The GOP Covered For It! And Nothing Happened…Again!
Never in the history of shocking revelations about US government lies and scandal has there been such a protracted period…
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17 March
Is Filibuster Reform Now More Likely Than Not?
Mitch McConnell has become so effective as an obstructionist force and the GOP has been so disciplined in their support…
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15 March
What Challenges Will the US Face in the Post-COVID World?
There are encouraging signs that the US will slowly begin to return to post-COVID normalcy by this summer or fall. …
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13 March
Wait, what? A president behaving presidentially? News that’s…actually…good?
Yes, you heard that right. We’ve come to 50 days into the Biden presidency and things are actually working, getting…
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11 March
Next Steps Toward Making the Country Safer and Healthier
There is good news in America–from progress in getting relief to Americans wracked by COVID and its economic aftershocks to…
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8 March
“A Foreign Policy for the American People”
Last week Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech outlining the priorities of Biden-Harris Administration foreign policy. It differed from…
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5 March
Washington Got You Pissed Off? Us Too!
Weren’t we supposed to get a break from being angry at DC? At the political inanity? The recklessness? The law…
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4 March
Tangled Up in Blue: Policing at a Crossroads
Deep State Radio listeners know Rosa Brooks as one of our founding regulars, a scholar on constitutional and international law…
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2 March
The Daughters of Kobani: The Women Who Beat ISIS
ISIS was as unstoppable as their beliefs and actions were unconscionable when they arrived in Kobani. But there they were defeated…
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1 March
Not an Enemy, Not Quite an Ally: America’s Reset with Saudi Arabia…and the Middle East
Last week, the Biden Administration released the official conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the brutal…
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1 March
Deep Thoughts With David Rothkopf – Episode 2
In this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, David discusses his initial reaction to the Biden Administration’s decision not to sanction…
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Feb- 2021 -26 February
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…
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25 February
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…
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24 February
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,…
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23 February
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…
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22 February
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…
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19 February
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…
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17 February
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…
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17 February
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…
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