Podcasts

The DSR Daily Brief for June 27, 2023: Wagner Mercenaries Free to Go to Belarus, Zelensky Visits the Front Lines and Japan Reinstates South Korea’s Preferred Trade Status

The three-hundred-ninth episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: Putin condemns Wagner rebellion but says Prigozhin’s…

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How to Capitalize on Putin’s Weakness In the Wake of the Prigozhin Mini-Coup

The dust is still settling from Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow that gripped the world and rocked the Kremlin. Many questions…

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The DSR Daily Brief for June 26, 2023: Chaos in Russia Over the Weekend and What’s Next for Wagner

The three-hundred-eighth episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: Officials question whether truce will hold in…

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Words Matter: Supreme Court Rules On Biden’s Immigration Guidelines, Justice Alito and More

Norm and Kavita are back this week to discuss the 8-1 ruling in favor of the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement…

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The DSR Daily Brief for June 23, 2023: Titan Tragedy, West Pledges Billions to Help Rebuild Ukraine

The three-hundred-seventh episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: Deep in the Atlantic, a ‘Catastrophic Implosion’…

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How Will Our 45th President Do in Prison?: A Conversation with Mary Trump

Few people have offered the kind of insight into Donald Trump than has his niece, psychologist Mary Trump. On this special…

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The DSR Daily Brief for June 22, 2023: The Search for the Missing Submersible Enters Critical Phase

The three-hundred-sixth episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: Rescuers make a last desperate push as…

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Analyzing Secretary Blinken’s China Trip and Modi’s Upcoming State Visit

This week, Rosa Brooks of the Georgetown Law Center guest hosts for David Rothkopf. She is joined by Ed Luce…

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The DSR Daily Brief for June 21, 2023: The Latest Developments in Ukraine, A Glimmer of Hope For the Missing Submersible

The three-hundred-fifth episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: In Hosting Modi, Biden Pushes Democracy Concerns…

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The DSR Daily Brief for June 20, 2023: More Attacks on Ukraine, Blinken’s China Visit, Modi’s Upcoming US Visit

The three-hundred-fourth episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: Russia attacks Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities…

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Do We Still Need Big Brother to Help Us Fight Terrorism?

During the so-called Global War on Terror, the US developed legal mechanisms to help support efforts to fight “the bad…

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Vatnik Soup: A Conversation with Pekka Kallioniemi

Michael’s guest this week is Pekka Kallioniemi, a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of human-computer interaction at Tampere University.…

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Is There Hope for the American Justice System?

There have been glimmers of sanity from a Supreme Court that seemed hopelessly radicalized. The former president of the United States…

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Check Your Blood Pressure Before You Listen to this Episode

The lies and deflections from Republicans defending Trump have spun up the ire of “Words Matter” co-host Norm Ornstein. So…

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Could We Be Nearing a Turning Point in the War in Ukraine?

The long awaited Spring offensive has become a Summer offensive. But we are just in the first phases. Key Ukrainian…

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Russian Politics and the War in Ukraine with Aaron Schwartzbaum

This week Zoe and Natalya are joined by Aaron Schwartzbaum, a 2023 Templeton Fellow with the Eurasia Program at the…

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Spies: What a Great New History of Espionage Tells Us About the Trump Case and More

Harvard’s Calder Walton has written an important new history espionage called Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West.…

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The DSR Daily Brief for June 6, 2023: Key Ukrainian Dam is Blown Up, Mike Pence Enters 2024 Race

The three-hundred-third episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: Key Ukrainian dam blown up, Kyiv blames…

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On the Ground In Ukraine with James Rushton

Michael’s guest this week is James Rushton, a journalist at Yahoo News who is covering the Ukraine-Russia war from his…

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The DSR Daily Brief for June 5, 2023: The Cause of the Train Crash in India, A Close Call in the Taiwan Strait

The three-hundred-second episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories Cited in the Episode: Ukraine war: Russia says it thwarted major…

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