Deep State Radio

Hopes and Fears: Reflections on 2020 and 2021

None of us have ever lived through a year like 2020.  What are its lessons?  What has it changed forever? …

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Our Escalating Cyberwar with Russia: What Can Biden Do?

We have endured one of the most massive cyberattacks in history this year. While the US Secretary of State, Attorney…

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American Democracy’s Near Death Experience: How Do We Recover and Ensure It Doesn’t Happen Again?

Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office this weekend discussing whether to send in US troops to declare martial law…

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Why Having the Most Diverse Cabinet in History Matters

Joe Biden’s cabinet will look more like America than any in our history.  It will contain more women, more people…

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Testing Joe Biden: What Challenges Will Take the Measure of the Next President

No president has ever entered the job with more foreign policy experience than Joe Biden, who has been playing a…

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Can America Ever Lead Again?

Donald Trump was the worst president in US history. About that, at this point, there can be no doubt. One…

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Trump’s Endgame: How Bad Can it Get?

Despite his historic losing streak in the courts (not to mention his big election loss), Donald Trump continues to argue…

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What is the Cure for Post-Trump Stress Disorder? (Asking for a Planet I Know.)

Donald Trump is very nearly gone.  The damage he has done will take years to repair.  Where do we start? …

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The One in Which They Scare the Shit Out of You

We are about to enter a period of national catastrophe unlike any we have ever seen, unlike the past year,…

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What Comes After WTF? The Future of American Leadership in the Biden Era

We went from the bi-polar world to the uni-polar world to WTF.  The question now is “What comes after WTF?”…

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Songs of Experience

Wait, what? A president who actually has foreign policy experience? A national security team that is not comprised of traitors, crackpots,…

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Megashocker: A Normal Conversation About Policy and Politics

We go where no one else dares: To imagine a Trumpless future, a normal American president doing normal American president-y…

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First Principles: The Surprising Truth About What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans…for Better and for Worse

Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Ricks, one of America’s foremost journalists and authors, has a new book called “First Principles: What America’s Founders…

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Are We Entering What Will Be the Least Festive Holiday Season in Our Lifetimes?

With COVID spiking we will pass over 450,000 dead of the pandemic within months.  Hospitals and morgues are being stretched…

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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy…But We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet

Donald Trump’s defeat is a watershed in modern U.S. history and a relief for so many of us that it…

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After the Past Four Years, Do We Have Enough Energy to Celebrate Properly

As of the posting of this latest edition of Deep State Radio, no victor had been called in the presidential…

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There’s Got to be a Morning After

Someday soon Tuesday November 3 will end.  It may not be for a few weeks.  Our president seems to want…

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What to Do When Your Politics is as Broken as Ours?

With Election Day looming this year, Americans began to shutter their windows, put up plywood on the storefronts and they…

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Pray but Verify: Can We Trust Our Upcoming Elections?

We all remember Russia’s interference in the last election and we know they are back this time, joined, it seems,…

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Can We Get There From Here: The Precarious Path to “The Third Reconstruction”

A Democratic victory in the 2020 elections is not a sure thing.  As we have discussed on other episodes, the…

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