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Deep State Exclusive: The Very First Podcast of 2025!
To celebrate the fourth anniversary of Deep State Radio (which is to say something like 750 podcasts and a growing audience throughout), we have convened our…
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Nearly Six Months After an Attempted Coup, We Have More Questions than Answers, More Evasion than Accountability
Listening to FBI Director Christopher Wray before the Congress this week and last, his answers were long and yet achieved a kind of studied vacuousness. There…
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Perhaps It's Not Quite Time to Give Up on Our System of Justice
The lack of accountability for Donald Trump and his cronies for the January 6th insurrection, for the serial obstruction of justice identified by the Mueller…
The DSR Network‘Everybody knows somebody’
Terrorism expert Gina Ligon tells Jeanne Meserve that the Biden administration’s initiative on domestic extremism represents a ‘sea change’ in policy but…
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A Far Cry from Helsinki: Biden and Putin to Set "Guardrails" and Manage Expectations
When Vladimir Putin sits down with Joe Biden, both men will be well familiar with each other and Putin will have no illusions that he can toy with the new…
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Make the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar
Financial Times Editor-at-Large Gillian Tett has distinguished herself as a brilliant observer of markets and politics. That is in part due to the training she…
The DSR NetworkMeeting of the Minds
Ahead of presidents Putin and Biden meeting in Geneva, a psychiatrist puts the leader of Russia on the couch. Dr. Kenneth Dekleva, who served in the US embassy…
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Is There a Future for the Democratic Party?
With Republicans variously arguing that vaccines make people magnetic and that the Forest Service should be able to reroute the Moon's orbit, you'd think the…
The DSR NetworkThat Was Then
Chinese espionage poses a mortal threat to the US, former counterintelligence boss Bill Evanina tells Jeanne Meserve. And author Kai Bird talks with Jeff Stein…
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The New Map: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin
Pultizer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin is widely regarded as the world's foremost analyst and commentator on energy issues. His books have chronicled every aspect…
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Let's Make Diplomacy Boring Again
Joe Biden is off to Europe. He will meet with Allies and with Vladimir Putin. Under Trump, that was a formula for headlines and disaster. Under all presidents…
The DSR NetworkCyber Counterpunch
On this special edition of SpyTalk, co-host Jeanne Meserve speaks with William Evanina, former Director of the United States National Counterintelligence and…
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This is a Song About Disappointment
The Democrats keep bending over backwards to "do what's right" or "preserve bipartisanship." Republicans meanwhile have made it clear they have no interest in…
The DSR NetworkThe Gathering Storms
Former top FBI domestic extremist specialist Tom O’Connor tells co-host Jeanne Meserve in a startling interview that he’s worried about another Timothy McVeigh…
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Where's Your Sense of Urgency? It Won't Be 2024 When Our Democracy is Undone, it'll be 2021.
Many are rightly focused on the importance of 2024's presidential elections and the midterms in 2022. But if we do not stop GOP efforts at voter suppression…
The DSR NetworkSpies in the Soup
Jean Meserve talks with former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Juliette Kayyem about the mess in DHS’ intelligence shop, and Jeff Stein interviews Barry…
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Special Episode: The CFR's Richard Haass on the State of the World
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, is one of the world's leading thinkers on international affairs. His most recent book, "The…
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America's Message to the Middle East: We're Broken and Our Focus Needs to be on Taking Care of Business at Home
We've come to the end of another violent cycle between Israelis and Palestinians. Generally, the Biden Administration has gotten good grades for a policy that…
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How Do You Say "We Are Being Attacked by Radicals Who Want to Destroy Democracy" in a Way that Will Make People Care?
This week, the vast majority of Republicans on Capitol Hill sought to block a bipartisan commission that would investigate the attack that took place on…
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When of the Two Most Likely Solutions One is Impossible and the other is Even Less Likely, What Then?
The past two weeks have revealed that the Israel-Palestine conflict remains far from a solution. Indeed, of the two most likely solutions discussed--a…
The DSR NetworkPanetta’s Regret
Former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was praised in a multitude of articles and broadcasts marking the 10th anniversary of the elimination…
The DSR NetworkHas the CIA Lost Its Grip on the Middle East?
CIA clandestine services veteran and longtime Middle East hand Marc Polymeropoulos tells Jeff Stein that the CIA no longer prizes regional expertise, instead…
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The Cracking Sounds You Hear in the Old US-Israel Relationship
The Biden Administration is working hard to maintain a fairly traditional front for US-Israel relations during the current crisis. Which is to say they are…
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What's Cooking in the Laboratories of Democracy
It was Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who popularized the phrase "states are laboratories of democracy." That has never been clearer than at this moment…
The DSR NetworkCrisis and Confusion
In the fourth edition of the SpyTalk podcast, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen talks with co-host Jeanne Meserve about combatting…
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The Unimaginable Covid Crisis in India
On this special episode of Deep State Radio, we discuss the Covid-19 crisis in India with Washington Post Global Opinion Columnist, Rana Ayyub, who is covering…
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The One in Which Rosa Suggests That He or She With the Most Instagram Followers Should Rule
The US could be back in the Iran nuclear accord by the end of the month. There are plenty of hurdles to that, of course, but it is not impossible. And if not…
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The Woman Who Invented Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan would not have been president nor would he have enjoyed the successes he had as a politician without the active role played by his wife, Nancy…
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How Do We Get from Here to Accountability?
In an important ruling this week, Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote a scathing assessment of the Barr Department of Justice's efforts to rationalize their…
The DSR NetworkShots in the Dark
Jeanne Meserve looks into the mysterious directed-energy attacks on officials in Washington with Mark Zaid, lawyer for CIA and State Department victims. Then…
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Is this Just Indian Summer for Democracy in America?
Joe Biden is doing a remarkable job. Public support for Biden's bold economic initiatives is exceptionally high. But there are warning signs about what may be…
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A Stake Through the Heart of Reaganomics
We are in the middle of an economic sea-change in the United States. The prevailing views of the past 40 years--call them Reaganomics or neo-liberalism or the…
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Biden Gives the Most Kennedy-esque Rooseveltian Speech in History
Joe Biden spoke to a joint session of Congress and outlined an economic plan that exceeds in scope anything we have seen nearly a century. It was specific…
The DSR NetworkFire and Ice
In this week’s edition of the SpyTalk podcast, Jeff Stein goes deep on the CIA’s looming eviction from Afghanistan with Lisa Curtis, a longtime former CIA…
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Biden's First 100 Days, The Foreign Policy Perspective
Going from Donald Trump to Joe Biden has been as striking a political shift as most Americans have encountered in their lifetimes. But the shift has sent…
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Will We Ever Have Real Police Reform in America?
In the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict, while there was a consensus that a degree of justice was achieved, that a massive job of work remained to end the…
The DSR NetworkA CIA Spy in Syria, and US Responses to Russian, Chinese and Other Adversary Hacking
This week, in the debut edition of the SpyTalk podcast, co-host Jeff Stein talks to the Washington Post’s Joby Warrick about an extraordinary CIA operation in…
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A Page is Turned: We Shift Our Focus from Old Threats to New Ones
Last week, President Biden announced the US would be pulling our last troops out of Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. At the same time, leaders in the…
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A Tale of Two COVIDS
On the one hand, America's vaccine roll out is making great progress. On the other, in the last week COVID cases are on the rise in 38 states. On the one hand…
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A One on One with NYT Columnist Nick Kristof: Searching for Solutions from Here at Home to the World's Hot Spots
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof has set himself from other columnists by virtue of his deep reporting into the subjects about which…
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"The GOP Thinks of Politics Like Pro Wrestling"--A Conversation with Rep. Eric Swalwell
Rep. Eric Swalwell of California has emerged as one of the most important voices in the Democratic Party. From his presidential campaign to his work during…
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How Can Joe Biden Avoid the Curse of 400 Rabbits?
The ancient Aztecs referred to the headache and misery following drunken debauchery as the "curse of 400 rabbits." Presidents need to try to avoid policies…
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It's Not Too Early to Predict What Biden Era Politics Will Be Like
By this time during the presidency of the former guy, his national security advisor had been booted, the Muslim ban had been tried and Comey was days from…
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Sorting the Good News from the Bad on COVID
The US is making great progress on vaccine distribution and national death tolls are falling. But new variants are spreading and some states are seeing…
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Things are Going Pretty Well...Maybe it's Time to Start Worrying
It is a matter of conventional wisdom nearly everywhere that the Biden Administration is off to a strong start. Which, life on this planet being what it is…
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One-on-one with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Why It is So Important to Tell the Stories of Heroic Women
Too much of world history is written by men about men for men. The result is that cultural biases of a male-centric world are reinforced. But another…
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Standing Up to Anti-Asian Hate Crime: A One-on-One with Rep. Ted Lieu
As anti-Asian hate crimes continue across America, California Congressman Ted Lieu has become one of the foremost voices demanding action to stop the violence…
The DSR NetworkINTRODUCING “SPY TALK”
Introducing a new show from the DSR Network called “Spy Talk.” SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security…
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Kibbitizpalooza: Advice for the Biden Administration as they Roll Out Their Policies
While we are only two months into the new administration (and it is getting good marks for those two months) it is never too early to start kibbitzing about…
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When Can We Go To War and Who Decides?
Few decisions a government can make are more consequential than deciding when the use of force is warranted. In the US a debate has raged for decades about how…
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Ah, So This is What Having an Actual, Thought Out, Professional Foreign Policy Feels Like
After four years of policy by Tweet that sometimes felt as if it were driven more by the indigestion of the Tweeter than by any connection to US interests, the…
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Russia Meddled! Trump Lied! The GOP Covered For It! And Nothing Happened...Again!
Never in the history of shocking revelations about US government lies and scandal has there been such a protracted period of shocking revelations nor one with…
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Is Filibuster Reform Now More Likely Than Not?
Mitch McConnell has become so effective as an obstructionist force and the GOP has been so disciplined in their support of him, that he has left the Democrats…
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What Challenges Will the US Face in the Post-COVID World?
There are encouraging signs that the US will slowly begin to return to post-COVID normalcy by this summer or fall. Wall Street predictions for the economy for…
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Wait, what? A president behaving presidentially? News that's...actually...good?
Yes, you heard that right. We've come to 50 days into the Biden presidency and things are actually working, getting better, Spring is in the air, there's a…
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Next Steps Toward Making the Country Safer and Healthier
There is good news in America--from progress in getting relief to Americans wracked by COVID and its economic aftershocks to slowly getting a new government in…
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"A Foreign Policy for the American People"
Last week Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech outlining the priorities of Biden-Harris Administration foreign policy. It differed from past…
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Washington Got You Pissed Off? Us Too!
Weren't we supposed to get a break from being angry at DC? At the political inanity? The recklessness? The law breaking with impunity? Sure its the same old…
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Tangled Up in Blue: Policing at a Crossroads
Deep State Radio listeners know Rosa Brooks as one of our founding regulars, a scholar on constitutional and international law and a national security expert…
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The Daughters of Kobani: The Women Who Beat ISIS
ISIS was as unstoppable as their beliefs and actions were unconscionable when they arrived in Kobani. But there they were defeated by a force that not only…