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What's next for Iran, with the New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman
What's next for Iran, with the New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman

Episode 355

Ian Bremmer sits down with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to dissect what may go down as the most consequential month in the Middle East in…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Why life sciences are critical to national security
Why life sciences are critical to national security

Episode 354

What if the next virus isn’t natural, but deliberately engineered and used as a weapon? As geopolitical tensions rise and biological threats become m…

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Where middle class growth and small business meet
Where middle class growth and small business meet

Episode 353

Small businesses are more than just corner shops and local services. They’re a driving force of economic growth, making up 90% of all businesses glob…

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Trump's showdown with the courts with Yale Law School's Emily Bazelon
Trump's showdown with the courts with Yale Law School's Emily Bazelon

Episode 352

President Trump has never been shy about his revolutionary ambitions. In his second term, he’s moved aggressively to consolidate power within the exe…

9 months, 1 week ago

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Where Trump-Musk bromance goes from here, with Semafor’s Ben Smith
Where Trump-Musk bromance goes from here, with Semafor’s Ben Smith

Episode 351

It was an extraordinary public fight between two billionaires—President Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful man, and Elon Musk, the world’s riche…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Taiwan's strategy for countering a Chinese invasion, with Bonny Lin of CSIS
Taiwan's strategy for countering a Chinese invasion, with Bonny Lin of CSIS

Episode 350

On this week’s GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with Bonny Lin, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and Interna…

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Pope Leo XIV's historic opportunity, with Father James Martin
Pope Leo XIV's historic opportunity, with Father James Martin

Episode 349

Ian Bremmer sits down with Jesuit priest and bestselling author Father James Martin to discuss the unprecedented election of Pope Leo XIV—the first-e…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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OpenAI whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo on superintelligence and existential risk of AI
OpenAI whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo on superintelligence and existential risk of AI

Episode 348

How much could our relationship with technology change by 2027? In the last few years, new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek ha…

10 months, 1 week ago

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

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

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