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Not an Enemy, Not Quite an Ally: America's Reset with Saudi Arabia...and the Middle East
Last week, the Biden Administration released the official conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the brutal murder of Washington…
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The Accountability Conundrum: How Do We Form Commissions to Investigate 1/6 or COVID in the Current Political Environment?
When the 9/11 Commission was formed in the wake of the Al Qaeda attacks on the US, the current was united in grief and anger but politically polarized and it…
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This is Not Donald Trump's Planet Earth Anymore...and That's a Very Good Thing
The US has seen its influence plummet during the past four years as our president made everything including foreign policy about himself. That changed in an…
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Which is More Powerful, the Bully Pulpit or the Bullshit Pulpit?
Donald Trump introduced the truth-optional, bring your own dysfunction era to American politics and it made for good ratings. Now, he has been replaced by a…
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American Kompromat: Why Don't Americans Care More that Trump was a Russian Asset?
Craig Unger's new book American Kompromat details the KGB recruitment of Donald Trump and how a man like Trump can become a valued Russian asset. It can all be…
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Can the Biden Foreign Policy Team Live Up to Their Advance Billing?
The Biden foreign policy and national security teams arrived to choruses of praise for the experience of the members and their general positions. That said a…
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Episode 1: Deep Thoughts with David Rothkopf
This is our first episode of Deep Thoughts with David Rothkopf, our new weekly feature available exclusively to our members. This week, David discusses the…
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On January 6, the Noose Was for Mike Pence...Now a Legal Noose Is Tightening Around Trump
While Trumpists may have celebrated that the disgraced former president was not convicted by the Senate and the Senators who voted to convict have been…
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The Terrorist Next Door: The New War to Combat Domestic Extremism - Preview
In the latest in our "Ask the Blob" series (see links below for more about the name), host David Rothkopf is joined by Juliette Kayyem and Clint Watts (Bios…
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Promising Signs for a New Era in US Foreign Policy
Representative Ted Deutch (D-Florida) is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global…
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Where Does the Acquittal of Donald Trump Leave Us?
For the second time in as many years, Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate, this time for inciting insurrection. Even with the overwhelming evidence the…
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When is an Open and Shut Case Not an Open and Shut Case?
The House Impeachment managers proved beyond any reasonable doubt that Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the US government that resulted in six…
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Does the Impeachment Trial Represent a Turning Point for the GOP?
The House Impeachment managers are meticulously making an irrefutable case against former President Trump and they are meeting very little resistance from…
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Once They've Finished the Easy Part, What's Next for the Biden Administration?
Undoing the policies of our disgraced former president are the low hanging fruit for Biden foreign and national security policy. Allies can be prioritized…
The DSR NetworkThe Joyce of Cooking: Judicial Reform, Domestic Terrorism and How to Frost a Cake
MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance joins the podcast this week, and we discuss highly unrelated topics such as pet chickens and how necessary judicial reforms can…
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In Search of the Republican "Taliban We Can Work With"
Has the GOP lost its mind? Or is its embrace and defense of lunatics, violent extremists, traitors, sex offenders, racists and the highly corrupt a shrewd…
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Rays of Hope: A Conversation with Tom Friedman
This is a complex moment for America and for the world. It is a far cry from the euphoria of the immediate post-Cold War, tech boom era. But there were…
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What Does the FBI Know That Congress Doesn't?
"The FBI Way" is a terrific new book from 25 year FBI veteran and MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi. It details the values within the FBI that have enabled it…
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America's Not the Only Place Democracy is Under Siege
Imagine: A coup attempt in which the coup leaders justify taking power because of massive voter fraud. Or imagine a government using force against thousands of…
The DSR NetworkLa Dolce Kavita: Chocolate, Choosing Vaccines and An Easy Way to Help Others
Today’s episode features Kavita Patel, practicing physician and former health and economics policy advisor in the Obama Administration. We talk pro-cookie…
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Was Trump's Coup Attempt on January 6th the Start of Something Much Worse?
While some may look at the Trump coup attempt on January 6th as the last desperate act of the disgraced former president to remain in power, it is already…
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Filibusted: Getting to the Truth About What's Wrong with the US Senate
Senate "institutionalists" claim the filibuster is a traditional US Senate tool that produces compromise. Nope. It's a tool that was almost never used during…
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Reading the Biden Tea Leaves: What A Week of Change Is Telling Us About Our Futures
While some Washington hot take artists are already predicting a backlash against Bidenism (and this even before the first dogs Major and Champ have had a…
The DSR NetworkApologies, Layer Cake and Camping: A Conversation with E. Jean Carroll
Journalist and former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll joins this week’s episode and we dig straight into all the important issues, while also trying to…
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Three Wednesdays: Storming the Capitol, Impeachment & Inauguration...Where Does It Leave the Average American?
The past two weeks are unlike any America has ever seen. In the midst of a national pandemic and economic crisis, we saw an unprecedented insurrection on…
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Et Voila! A New America Emerges Overnight!
The past four years have left deep scars in the United States. Damage has been done. So can a new administration come in and restore America's role in the…
The DSR NetworkRussian Dressing and Rolling Trauma
Today's episode features a conversation with therapist and author of Too Much and Never Enough, Mary L. Trump. We make brownies -- because if warm brownies…
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Ask the Experts: How Do We Make January 6 a Positive Turning Point for America?
We have never seen events like those that occurred on January 6. We have never had a president who posed the kind of threat to our security presented by Donald…
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What Will Be the First Line of Donald Trump's Obituary?
Will it read "Donald Trump, only president in history to be impeached twice..." or "Donald Trump who presided over the end of American democracy and became…
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Why Trump Should Have Been Impeached Three Times: COVID Update
While Donald Trump richly deserved the two impeachments that have placed him in the history books, it is arguable that his greatest offenses and failures were…
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Trump's Failed Coup Attempt: How Bad Was It, How Much Worse Could It Have Been, What to Do Next?
January 6, 2021 is a date few of us will ever forget. On that day, the president of the United States incited a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. Five people…
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The Trump Coup: A Week in Washington Like No Other
In the midst of a pandemic, with almost 4000 people dying every day, when the nation should be coming together, the President of the United States once again…
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Special Edition: Global Risks 2021 with Ian Bremmer
A divided US, the future consequences of the pandemic, inaction on climate change, growing tensions between the US and China, the year ahead holds substantial…
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2021 Predictions: Boring May Be Out of Biden's Reach
As we look ahead to the new year, many of us hope to put the constant drama and sleaze and anxiety and pain of the Trump year's behind us. Many hoped that a…
The DSR NetworkToo Famous: Stories and Baking with Kathy Griffin
Today's episode features a conversation with comedian Kathy Griffin. I tried to teach her to bake lemon bars and she tried to convince me she was too famous to…
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Hopes and Fears: Reflections on 2020 and 2021
None of us have ever lived through a year like 2020. What are its lessons? What has it changed forever? And where will it lead in 2021? We bring together an…
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Our Escalating Cyberwar with Russia: What Can Biden Do?
We have endured one of the most massive cyberattacks in history this year. While the US Secretary of State, Attorney General and the intelligence community…
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American Democracy's Near Death Experience: How Do We Recover and Ensure It Doesn't Happen Again?
Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office this weekend discussing whether to send in US troops to declare martial law and nullify a legitimate election. The idea was…
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Why Having the Most Diverse Cabinet in History Matters
Joe Biden's cabinet will look more like America than any in our history. It will contain more women, more people of color, a wide range of ages, political…
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Testing Joe Biden: What Challenges Will Take the Measure of the Next President
No president has ever entered the job with more foreign policy experience than Joe Biden, who has been playing a role at the highest levels of U.S…
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Can America Ever Lead Again?
Donald Trump was the worst president in US history. About that, at this point, there can be no doubt. One measure of the disaster he has been is the damage he…
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Trump's Endgame: How Bad Can it Get?
Despite his historic losing streak in the courts (not to mention his big election loss), Donald Trump continues to argue he was robbed. And many in his own…
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What is the Cure for Post-Trump Stress Disorder? (Asking for a Planet I Know.)
Donald Trump is very nearly gone. The damage he has done will take years to repair. Where do we start? Socially? Politically? Economically? At home? With the…
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The One in Which They Scare the Shit Out of You
We are about to enter a period of national catastrophe unlike any we have ever seen, unlike the past year, unlike wars through which we have lived. Mass death…
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What Comes After WTF? The Future of American Leadership in the Biden Era
We went from the bi-polar world to the uni-polar world to WTF. The question now is "What comes after WTF?" Is it a restoration? An attempt to squeeze out…
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Songs of Experience
Wait, what? A president who actually has foreign policy experience? A national security team that is not comprised of traitors, crackpots, sycophants, and…
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Megashocker: A Normal Conversation About Policy and Politics
We go where no one else dares: To imagine a Trumpless future, a normal American president doing normal American president-y things like making domestic and…
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First Principles: The Surprising Truth About What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans...for Better and for Worse
Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Ricks, one of America's foremost journalists and authors, has a new book called "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned…
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Are We Entering What Will Be the Least Festive Holiday Season in Our Lifetimes?
With COVID spiking we will pass over 450,000 dead of the pandemic within months. Hospitals and morgues are being stretched past capacity. The White House has…
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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy...But We're Not Out of the Woods Yet
Donald Trump's defeat is a watershed in modern U.S. history and a relief for so many of us that it may do permanent damage to the sales of Tums and headache…
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After the Past Four Years, Do We Have Enough Energy to Celebrate Properly
As of the posting of this latest edition of Deep State Radio, no victor had been called in the presidential race. But it seems likely Joe Biden is the next…
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There's Got to be a Morning After
Someday soon Tuesday November 3 will end. It may not be for a few weeks. Our president seems to want to make sure it never ends...because when it does, likely…
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What to Do When Your Politics is as Broken as Ours?
With Election Day looming this year, Americans began to shutter their windows, put up plywood on the storefronts and they watched National Guard troops rumble…
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Pray but Verify: Can We Trust Our Upcoming Elections?
We all remember Russia's interference in the last election and we know they are back this time, joined, it seems, by the Iranians. But foreign threats are not…
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Can We Get There From Here: The Precarious Path to "The Third Reconstruction"
A Democratic victory in the 2020 elections is not a sure thing. As we have discussed on other episodes, the elections are fraught with risks. Further, once an…
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Among All the Traitors in US History, Where Does Donald Trump Rank?
On a special webinar edition of Deep State Radio, the Financial Times Edward Luce hosts a conversation with David Rothkopf, author of "Traitor: A History of…
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And Now for Something Completely Different: Optimism.
We know, we know. This is no time for complacency. This is no time to minimize the challenges we face. This is no time to assume anything about the election or…
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The Man Who Ran Washington
In this special episode we discuss "The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III," the landmark biography of one of the real titans of…
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The View from Inside the Trump White House: It Ain’t Pretty
Some of the most hard-hitting and shocking criticisms of Donald Trump have come from insiders in his administration. From Rex Tillerson’s calling his former…
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The Most Successful Covert Operation Since the Trojan Horse...and It Wasn't So Covert
Russia has been trying to weaken the United States since the first days of the Cold War. But in that entire span of three-quarters of a century, even with the…