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Inherent Greatness and Decency
Season 6 Episode 13
The degradation of the State Department’s official correspondence due to font choice; the Trump Administration releases its National Security Strateg…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
A Living, Breathing Document
Season 6 Episode 12
The US plan for peace between Russia and Ukraine; what Putin wants out of a settlement; the wider effects of the war on Europe; Jared Kushner is back…
4 months ago
Live from Williamsburg, Virginia!
Season 6 Episode 11
Cheap Talk Live! The students of William & Mary’s “Introduction to International Politics” course join the podcast to discuss drug boats; the UN-appr…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Wars on Things
Season 6 Episode 10
Strikes by the United States military on suspected drug boats in the Pacific; the legality of these strikes; why it might matter if the US is violati…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
A Little Bit of a Vibration
Season 6 Episode 9
Dick Cheney’s outsized foreign policy role in the George W. Bush administration; what President Trump is talking about when he talks about nuclear te…
5 months ago
The Remaining Four-to-Five Minutes of Your Life
Season 6 Episode 8
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5 months, 1 week ago
More Efficient Powerpoint Production
Season 6 Episode 7
Ceasefires are good; Trump’s personal stake in Middle East diplomacy; the implausibility of the AI apocalypse; the incremental ceding of human contro…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Hopeful Moment
Season 6 Episode 6
Francis Fukuyama joins Cheap Talk to discuss the rise of authoritarianism; Europe’s security environment; the risk of AI catastrophe; signs of hope f…
6 months ago
A Country That Shall Not Be Named
Season 6 Episode 5
What, if anything, the government shutdown means for international politics; the US and its weakened capacity to conduct foreign policy; non-great-po…
6 months ago
There's Been Some News
Season 6 Episode 4
Small signs of hope for arms control between the United States and Russia; a review of the last ten years of US-Russia policy; explaining Trump’s abo…
6 months, 2 weeks ago