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Nuclear-armed frenemies
Episode 55
Tommy talks with Steve Coll, author of Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, about why the hell we’re stil…
8 years, 3 months ago
Held hostage in Syria
Episode 54
Tommy talks with war photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie about being held hostage by rebel fighters for nearly three months in Syria.
8 years, 4 months ago
Inching closer to nuclear war
Episode 53
Tommy talks with New York Times editor and writer Max Fisher about disconcerting signs that the Trump administration is seriously considering a milit…
8 years, 4 months ago
Why China loves Jared
Episode 52
Tommy talks with New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos about China’s frantic post-election efforts to build a relationship with Jared Kushner, and why t…
8 years, 4 months ago
Pod Save the World Live!
Episode 51
Tommy talks with Ben Rhodes, Ambassador Samantha Power and Greg Barker about the documentary The Final Year, which follows President Obama’s foreign …
8 years, 4 months ago
The Terrorist Interrogator
Episode 50
Tommy talks with former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan about his work interrogating terrorists and investigating the bombing of the USS Cole and the 9/…
8 years, 5 months ago
Iranian revolution
Episode 49
Tommy talks with former top Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes about the protests sweeping across Iran, Trump’s response, how today compares wit…
8 years, 5 months ago
Drumbeat of war with North Korea
Episode 48
Tommy talks with Republican foreign policy expert Kori Schake about the eery similarity between the Trump administration’s comments about North Korea…
8 years, 5 months ago
Infiltrating al Qaeda
Episode 47
Tommy interviewed undercover FBI agent Tamer Elnoury about his work penetrating and disrupting an al Qaeda cell plotting attacks in Canada and the Un…
8 years, 5 months ago
Jerusalem went to Jared
Episode 46
Tommy talks with Politico’s foreign affairs correspondent Nahal Toosi about Trump’s controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital…
8 years, 6 months ago