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Will American Tear Itself Apart?
One of our regulars, Ed Luce of the Financial Times, had an article in the Weekend FT called "Will America tear itself apart: The Supreme Court, 2020 elections…
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A Song of Fire and Ice...and Cyber and Terrorists and Lawyers
In Game of Thrones leadership decisions were made with the help of dragons and Moon Doors and Valyrian steel daggers. In America today, people play just as…
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From a Wannabe Authoritarian to the Perfect Weapon
Donald Trump has unleashed resources of his government to support his campaign against Joe Biden in a way that America would condemn were it the behavior of…
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From the 25th Amendment to a Trip to the Hague: What to Do About Trump?
The increasingly erratic president was pretty erratic to begin with. Which has made the past week all the more unnerving. Throw in revelations about the…
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The 3 a.m. Call is Coming from Inside the White House
The biggest national security story in America today is the biggest domestic story and the biggest political story and the biggest economic story and the…
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Shit Show or Clusterfuck? (And are we talking about the debates, Trump's taxes or the whole Trump presidency?)
The debate this week was a trainwreck inside a dog's breakfast wrapped in bad acid trip. It was, despite the best efforts of Joe Biden to discuss the issues…
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Our Unfolding Democratic Emergency: The Red Lights are Already Flashing
The Constitutional rot of the past four years has set the stage for the corruption of our institutions and, equally importantly, for growing delegitimization…
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The Most Precarious Moment for American Democracy Since the Civil War
The President of the United States has deliberately raised questions about whether our democratic system will work properly while actively working to ensure it…
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Have We Already Seen the October Surprise?
Is a resurgent COVID the October Surprise? Is it the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Will it be the nomination and approval of a replacement for her…
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Setting the Agenda at a Watershed Moment for Women's Rights in America
Cecile Richards is the CEO and founder of Supermajority, a new organization for "women's activism, training and the mobilization of a multiracial…
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What Happens When We Lose a National Hero a Moment When the Entire US Government Faces a Crisis of Legitimacy?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a rarity in Washington, a true hero, one of those voices who would not be silenced by conventional wisdom or the zeitgeist or politics…
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The Question That Looms Above the Trump Presidency
Michael Schmidt's new book "Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President" is one of the required reads of this moment in our…
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Donald Trump's "Avalanche of Outrageousness": The Perspectives of Peter Strzok
Peter Strzok is one of America's most respected, experienced counterintelligence specialists. His career at the FBI reads like a thriller and as a consequence…
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Will Joe Biden Be the President Progressives Think We Need?
The divide between the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and centrists has dogged the party for years and hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016…
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Is There a Cure for What Ails the GOP?
The Republican Party not only produced the corrupt, failed presidency of Donald Trump, but it has supported Trump at every turn. What is to be done with a…
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We are at 65 9/11s and Counting...Where Do We Go From Here?
The two defining crises of the past 40 years in the US have been the 9/11 attacks and the COVID crisis. In both cases, government lies and bad government…
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Aaaaaand the hoooome of the...suckers...and losers!
Donald Trump doesn't think much of America's military and he thinks even less of its members who sacrificed their lives or freedom for the country. And, now he…
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While Trump Tries to Bury the Russia Story, Russia is Still Trying to Bury Us
As former U.S. Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel says during this special podcast, when he interviewed Putin several years ago, the Russian president…
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The Worst Term We Can Think of For Trump...is a Second Term
After the lawlessness and lies of the GOP convention it is clearer than ever that another term in office for Donald Trump would be devastating for democracy in…
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Foreign Policy Takes a Holiday: Welcome to Campaign Season 2020
Every four years a heated debate occurs among foreign policy and national security nerds about why foreign policy and national security just don't seem to be…
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The End of the Great Russia Hoax Hoax
There is one and only one major hoax associated with the relationship between Donald Trump and the Russian government during the 2016 elections. That's the…
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What Do the United States and Belarus Have in Common?
As many US observers watched brave Belarussians take to the streets to protest the rigged election engineered by their autocratic president, they wondered…
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Who You Gonna Call...When the Fire Department is Taken Over by Arsonists?
With the president making even more outrageous remarks about his desire to impede voting by mail and the GOP mobilizing more efforts to spread disinformation…
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What Thomas Hobbes Did on His Summer Vacation
We summarize a busy and disturbing week of world events with a bit of free-association between Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law Center, Kori Schake of AEI and…
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We are in the Worst Case Scenario...What's Next?
In this special Agenda 2021 episode, we bring together three of America's top expert commentators on the COVID crisis to discuss where we are in the crisis…
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"This is America's Last Chance"
For four decades America has been led away from the values of opportunity and creative ingenuity that led it to become the greatest power in the world…
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Election 2020, What Could Go Wrong?
America has had disputed election results in the past. 2016 comes to mind. So does 2000. So does 1876. But, in all these cases and with all the instances of…
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Our Enemies are Laughing Now, Wait Until You See What a Second Trump Term Looks Like
In Russia, they refer to Trump as being "theirs." In France, the president muses about how Europe should prepare for an America that is no longer an ally. In…
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When it Comes to National Security, this Administration is "Holding a Gun to Our Own Heads and Threatening to Shoot"
In a remarkable 50 year career in government that has seen him as Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA, White House Chief of Staff, Director of the Office…
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Preparing for the Next Trump-Barr Crime Wave: Stealing the Election
Thanks to his trusty personal defense attorney Bill Barr and his defender in the Senate Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump has gotten away with betraying his…
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"The End of White Politics" is Now
Commentator and political pro Zerlina Maxwell's book "The End of White Politics" could not be better timed. It comes in the summer of BLM and COVID when…
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"Donald will never get better...and he's only going to get worse."
No one has provided the insight into the pathologies that define Donald Trump and his presidency like Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump. Her book, "Too Much and…
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Navigating Via Rearview Mirror: Toxic Leadership, Groupthink and the Management Mess that Led to a Public Health Catastrophe
Viruses occur in nature. So do epidemics. But where most of the world's leading economies managed the COVID crisis well enough to control it? America under…
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Are We About to Enter a New Era in Climate Policy?
Any Democratic president would immediately work to reverse the damage that the Trump Administration has done to climate and environmental policies in the U.S…
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What is the World Capital of Omnishambolic Clusterfuckery?
Some national governments are clusterfucks. Others are omnishambles. But a rare few are both. Is Donald Trump's America the capital of omnishambolic…
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200,000 Dead by August? Who Will Be Held Accountable for the Crimes Now Being Committed Against the American People?
The Trump Administration and its allies in key statehouses are suppressing vital data about the spread of COVID. Without that data, tens of thousands of more…
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"If the President Were a Military Officer He Would Be Court-Martialed"
Rep. Anthony Brown, (D-Maryland), Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, with a distinguished military career behind him, joins our regulars to…
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A Good Day for the Constitution, A Mixed Bag for Trump & a Bad Day for Barr
The Supreme Court rulings on Trump's taxes put a stake through the heart of the absurd idea that U.S. presidents had absolute immunity and underscored the…
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We Are Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Failed State
This episode of our Agenda 2021 series is a one-on-one conversation with General James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence and prior to that…
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We do not have a federal government
The most charitable interpretation of the events surrounding the Russian bounty scandal is that we have suffered a catastrophic breakdown in our policy…
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What's the Worst Thing About the Russian-Afghan Bounty on Allied Troops Scandal?
The Russian-Afghan bounty on allied troops scandal is rocking the White House. But it is actually many scandals in one. There is the scandal that Russia sought…
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Justice Started Out Blind, But at the Moment that May be the Least of Her Problems
Have we ever seen an Attorney General so contemptuous of the law? A Department of Justice so dedicated to promulgating injustice? A judiciary so full of…
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Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz on the Way Out from the Crisis
We face an extraordinary challenge--a massive economic crisis and a great public health crisis, each feeding into one another. Our government's response thus…
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The Song of the Summer of 2020 is Likely to Be a Sad One
To commemorate the beginning of summer, we take a look at the issues likely to dominate the headlines between now and Labor Day, from COVID to unrest in the…
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The COVID Prognosis is Bleak
Everywhere you go, you get the sense that people are "over" COVID...except the hospitals that are filling up across the country. In fact, the anti-science…
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Trump is Terrible, No One is Surprised and He Could Still Win
John Bolton's book has Washington in a tizzy. Whether the rest of the country cares that much, whether anyone will see it as revelatory, whether it has any…
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Third Anniversary Episode: The Protests are America Healing
In honor of three years of doing "Deep State Radio", the original gang of Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law Center, Kori Schake of AEI and David Sanger of the New…
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Is This a “Break Glass in Emergency” Moment?
Donald Trump says he's never even heard of Brett McGurk, but that's what he says whenever he feels jilted. On today's episode of Deep State Radio, Rosa Brooks…
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The Top 5 Economic Steps a Biden Administration Should Take in 2021
We are in a deep economic crisis today, the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. While some recovery from the worst of the crisis is possible…
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A Category 5 Global Economic Hurricane is Looming
According to economist Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard's Kennedy School, the economic crisis triggered by the COVID pandemic is going to be very different from any…
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Lies, Damned Lies and Lies Trump Doesn't Even Realize Are Lies
If Parson Weems, who wrote of little George Washington's inability to tell a lie, were to write the story of Donald Trump and the cherry tree, you can bet that…
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What Difference Will an Election Make: Democracy and Human Rights After Trump
There is no question that the Trump Administration has been a dramatic departure from past US Administrations on issues like democracy promotion, human rights…
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What Fresh Hell Is This? Or This? And What About This One Over Here?
As if a public health catastrophe and an economic disaster were not enough, America is now rocked by the worst civil unrest in 50 years. And, to make matters…
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The Crisis Enters a New Phase: Are We Making Progress or Simply Facing or Even Creating New Risks?
America is re-opening. Whether we should be or not is beside the point. It is happening. So the question becomes how do we manage that re-opening and what…
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Remaking US Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of a President Who Has Been "Drunk at the Wheel"
It is possible that in January 2021, America may welcome a president with more foreign policy experience than anyone who has assumed the office in more than…
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Under Cover of Covid: While One Crisis Commands Our Attention Others are Brewing
COVID has taken such a ghastly human and economic toll that people can speak of or think of little else. That's dangerous. Because opportunists and worse are…
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The Craziness in Washington is Not Just a Sideshow, It is a Symptom of an Unprecedented US Leadership Failure
We have a new Director of National intelligence who doesn't meet the minimum statutory requirements for holding the job. We have an administration that has…
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Rosie the Riveter Would Have Worn a Mask--Trump Must Too
Donald Trump likes to talk a lot about being a wartime president. But wartime presidents lead by example and inspire the country to set aside politics to focus…
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You Think It's Bad Combatting a Pandemic with Leaders Who Don't Understand Science? Just Wait.
In many ways, one of the unexpected side-effects of the COVID pandemic has been a rapid acceleration of the application of new technologies and the adaptation…
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Our Next Great National Challenge is to Rebuild Our Economy: Where Do We Begin?
Almost 40 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past 8 weeks. That is a quarter of the workforce. We have never faced a crisis like this one. How we…