Podcast Episodes

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen on why he went to El Salvador and what's next

Episode 347

In the latest episode of the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen to unpack what he calls a constitutional crisis unfolding under the Trump administrati…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Free speech in Trump's America with New York Times journalist Jeremy Peters and conservative scholar Ilya Shapiro

Episode 346

Free speech has become one of the most contentious issues in American politics, but what does it actually mean today? On the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with conservative legal scholar…

Published on 4 months ago

Revisiting the Vietnam War 50 years later, with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and author Mai Elliott

Episode 345

It’s been 50 years since the fall of Saigon, but the impact of the Vietnam War still reverberates across generations and continents. On the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer speaks with Pulitzer Prize…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Pushing Putin for a ceasefire: Dmytro Kuleba on Ukraine's future and Russia's goals

Episode 344

What will it take to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? President Trump is pushing hard for a ceasefire deal, but is Vladimir Putin actually interested in negotiation? On the GZERO World Podcast, Ian …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

International markets and global energy transitions

Episode 342

What does global energy transition look like in a time of major geopolitical change, including rebalancing of trade? In this special episode of "Energized: The Future of Energy”, host JJ Ramberg and …

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Larry Summers has a few thoughts about Trump's trade war

Episode 343

For a special edition of the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to get his economic assessment of President Trump's unprecedented imposition of ta…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado says Maduro's days are numbered

Episode 341

On the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer is joined by the most prominent opposition leader in Venezuela, María Corina Machado. Machado has a long political history as a center-right opposition figure …

Published on 5 months ago

Inside Elon Musk and DOGE's "revolutionary" push to reshape Washington, with WIRED's Katie Drummond

Episode 340

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, made his fortune-breaking industries—space, cars, social media—and is now trying to break the government… in the name of fixing it. But what happens when Silicon V…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The economic waves of Trump 2.0: Insights from The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes

Episode 339

On the GZERO World Podcast with Ian Bremmer, we ask The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes: Did Wall Street get President Trump wrong?

Candidate Trump promised to lower taxes and drastic…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Will America's global retreat open new doors for Beijing? Insights from Bill Bishop

Episode 338

In seven short weeks, the Trump administration has completely reshaped US foreign policy and upended trade alliances. Will China benefit from US retrenchment and increasing global uncertainty, or wil…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago