Podcast Episodes

Too Old (Or Young) To Be President

How old is too old to run the country? Donald Trump will turn 78 in June. The incumbent Joseph Biden will turn 82 shortly after the November election…

2 years, 2 months ago

Securing Ukraine / Negotiating With Putin?

As military aid remains stalled in Congress, Ukraine is facing shortages of weapons and ammo as its military forces fight a war of attrition against …

2 years, 2 months ago

Debs (Running For President From Prison)

At a campaign rally in Ohio, Donald Trump said some things that, depending on your perspective, were either appalling or patriotic. He defended the J…

2 years, 2 months ago

Anarchy in Haiti

Haiti is collapsing under gang-fueled lawlessness. The central government has lost control of most of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The de facto prime…

2 years, 2 months ago

Netanyahu's War

Throughout his long political career -- as a diplomat, Likud party leader, or Israeli prime minister -- Benjamin Netanyahu has obsessed over his coun…

2 years, 2 months ago

Historians vs. Trump, Revisited

This is the follow-up episode to the one published on Feb. 6 previewing the oral arguments in the Colorado ballot case, Trump v. Anderson.

The U.S. S…

2 years, 2 months ago

After Putin

In power for nearly a quarter century, Vladimir Putin, 71, is a modern-day tsar -- an autocrat largely unaccountable to his people -- except he has n…

2 years, 2 months ago

Election of 1980

Hey, 2024 is an election year! This is the first episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history.

The moralistic incu…

2 years, 3 months ago

Who Was Alexei Navalny?

Alexei Navalny was Russia's most prominent and effective opposition leader, an anti-corruption crusader and democratic politician who entered public …

2 years, 3 months ago

Strangelove at 60

In early 1964, Stanley Kubrick's black comedy Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb premiered in theaters. Sixty year…

2 years, 3 months ago