Deep State Radio

Remaking US Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of a President Who Has Been “Drunk at the Wheel”

It is possible that in January 2021, America may welcome a president with more foreign policy experience than anyone who…

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Under Cover of Covid: While One Crisis Commands Our Attention Others are Brewing

COVID has taken such a ghastly human and economic toll that people can speak of or think of little else. …

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The Craziness in Washington is Not Just a Sideshow, It is a Symptom of an Unprecedented US Leadership Failure

We have a new Director of National intelligence who doesn’t meet the minimum statutory requirements for holding the job.  We…

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Rosie the Riveter Would Have Worn a Mask–Trump Must Too

Donald Trump likes to talk a lot about being a wartime president. But wartime presidents lead by example and inspire…

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You Think It’s Bad Combatting a Pandemic with Leaders Who Don’t Understand Science?  Just Wait.

In many ways, one of the unexpected side-effects of the COVID pandemic has been a rapid acceleration of the application…

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Our Next Great National Challenge is to Rebuild Our Economy: Where Do We Begin?

Almost 40 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past 8 weeks.  That is a quarter of the workforce. …

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Kill the Body and the Head Will Fall

In boxing, repeated body blows are seen as a way to bring down an adversary.  We will soon see whether…

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Do We Need a Marshall Plan for the United States America?

With more than 33 million people claiming unemployment insurance in the past six weeks, 75,000 reported dead of COVID, 1.3…

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Hiding in Plain Sight: A Conversation with Sarah Kendzior

Sarah Kendzior’s latest book “Hiding in Plain Sight” describes precisely why Donald Trump’s failures as a leader, his support for…

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What Hath Jared Wrought…and What’s He Doing With the PPE Our Health Workers Need?

We are joined on this special episode of DSR by Rep. Ted Deutch, a member of the House Foreign Affairs…

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We Were Warned: A Conversation with Rep. Ted Lieu

Congressman Ted Lieu of California played a leading role in the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings and so he remembers…

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We Can’t Handle the Truth! (And the Truth Doesn’t Give a Damn)

60,000 Americans are dead.  1 million are infected.  And those are just the official numbers.  30 million are unemployed.  And…

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Is Kim Jong Un Dead or Collecting Shells at the Beach on His “Staycation”?

Is Kim Jong Un dead?  Chilling at the beach?  Succumbing to an overdose of cheese?  Will he fully recover?  Or…

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Taking a Closer Look at that Oncoming Train

The President of the United States keeps talking about the light at the end of the tunnel.  But even his…

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What Do We Do in Lieu of a President?: The View from the Medical and the Political Front Lines

As Angela Merkel observed this week, we are just in the first stages of this crisis.  As many Americans have observed,…

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Is Trump a Man or a Mouse?

Trump is a wannabe authoritarian who has consistently abused the power of his office and sought to place himself above…

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The Upside of the Apocalypse

While we are making some headway on flattening the curve when it comes to coronavirus in some parts of the…

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The World Will Never Be the Same–But How Will It Be Different?

As we anticipate months more of lockdown and efforts at recovery, at further tragic loss of life and catastrophic economic…

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Special Episode: Inside Trump’s Failure to Respond to the COVID-19 Threat

On April 11, the New York Times published an in-depth examination of the repeated warnings President Trump received concerning the…

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The Fog of Pandemic: If the Virus Doesn’t Get You, the Misinformation, Inequality or Lessons Unlearned Will

The only thing you know about the ghastly numbers the grow larger every day on your computer or television screen…

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