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We are at 65 9/11s and Counting…Where Do We Go From Here?

The two defining crises of the past 40 years in the US have been the 9/11 attacks and the COVID…

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Aaaaaand the hoooome of the…suckers…and losers!

Donald Trump doesn’t think much of America’s military and he thinks even less of its members who sacrificed their lives…

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While Trump Tries to Bury the Russia Story, Russia is Still Trying to Bury Us

As former U.S. Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel says during this special podcast, when he interviewed Putin several years…

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The Worst Term We Can Think of For Trump…is a Second Term

After the lawlessness and lies of the GOP convention it is clearer than ever that another term in office for…

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Foreign Policy Takes a Holiday: Welcome to Campaign Season 2020

Every four years a heated debate occurs among foreign policy and national security nerds about why foreign policy and national…

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The End of the Great Russia Hoax Hoax

There is one and only one major hoax associated with the relationship between Donald Trump and the Russian government during…

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What Do the United States and Belarus Have in Common?

As many US observers watched brave Belarussians take to the streets to protest the rigged election engineered by their autocrat…

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Who You Gonna Call…When the Fire Department is Taken Over by Arsonists?

With the president making even more outrageous remarks about his desire to impede voting by mail and the GOP mobilizing more…

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What Thomas Hobbes Did on His Summer Vacation

We summarize a busy and disturbing week of world events with a bit of free-association between Rosa Brooks of Georgetown…

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We are in the Worst Case Scenario…What’s Next?

In this special Agenda 2021 episode, we bring together three of America’s top expert commentators on the COVID crisis to…

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“This is America’s Last Chance”

For four decades America has been led away from the values of opportunity and creative ingenuity that led it to…

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Election 2020, What Could Go Wrong?

America has had disputed election results in the past.  2016 comes to mind.  So does 2000.  So does 1876.  But,…

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Our Enemies are Laughing Now, Wait Until You See What a Second Trump Term Looks Like

In Russia, they refer to Trump as being “theirs.”  In France, the president muses about how Europe should prepare for an…

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When it Comes to National Security, this Administration is “Holding a Gun to Our Own Heads and Threatening to Shoot”

In a remarkable 50 year career in government that has seen him as Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA,…

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Preparing for the Next Trump-Barr Crime Wave: Stealing the Election

Thanks to his trusty personal defense attorney Bill Barr and his defender in the Senate Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump has…

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“The End of White Politics” is Now

Commentator and political pro Zerlina Maxwell’s book “The End of White Politics” could not be better timed. It comes in…

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“Donald will never get better…and he’s only going to get worse.”

No one has provided the insight into the pathologies that define Donald Trump and his presidency like Trump’s niece, Mary…

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Navigating Via Rearview Mirror: Toxic Leadership, Groupthink and the Management Mess that Led to a Public Health Catastrophe

Viruses occur in nature.  So do epidemics.  But where most of the world’s leading economies managed the COVID crisis well…

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Are We About to Enter a New Era in Climate Policy?

Any Democratic president would immediately work to reverse the damage that the Trump Administration has done to climate and environmental…

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What is the World Capital of Omnishambolic Clusterfuckery?

Some national governments are clusterfucks. Others are omnishambles. But a rare few are both. Is Donald Trump’s America the capital…

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