This week: conversations with Nina Khruscheva, Jeffrey Sachs, Anatol Lieven, and Andrew Bacevich about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Listen today at 2 pm or anytime at our site. This week, Open Source hears again the argument that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked by the United States’ conflict with Russia…

This week: a conversation with Kaiser Kuo and Jing Tsu about the culture of US-China tensions. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our website. Last week, we considered the regime-level tensions between the US and China; this week, we think about the culture, the people, the unofficial dynamics…

This week: conversations with Kevin Rudd, Paul Heer, and David Kang about the US-China relationship. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our website. In late May, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China “the most serious long-term challenge to the international order.” That challenge, as Blinken described it…

This week: a conversation with Cornel West and David Bromwich, in search of wisdom. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our site. In a time of violence and confusion, we’re looking for wisdom this week with the philosopher Cornel West and the literary scholar David Bromwich. Did we…

If you’ve been following In Search of Monsters, our limited-series collaboration with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, you’ve heard all kinds of conversation on the sorrows of empire. The series came about in a time of sorrow, too. …

This week: conversations with dissenting veterans of America’s post-9/11 wars—the latest installment of our limited-series collaboration with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Hear it today at 2 pm, or anytime at our website. Ronald Reagan, the first presidential candidate endorsed by the NRA, also oversaw what was the largest…

This week: a conversation with Caroline Elkins about the violence of the British Empire. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our site. We’re examining empire in our limited-series collaboration with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and this week our attention turns specifically to the British Empire. Historian…

This week: a conversation with Daniel Immerwahr, Nina Tannenwald, and Alex Wellerstein about nuclear forgetting. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our website. A third of Americans, according to a Pew poll, favor military confrontation with Russia “even if it risks a nuclear conflict.” This week’s show looks…

This week: a conversation—with Trita Parsi, Hussein Banai, and John Ghazvinian—about nuclear talks with Iran and the long history of US-Iran relations. Listen today at 2 pm, or anytime at our website. The negotiations in Vienna over reviving the Iran nuclear deal have slowed, faltered, stalled. This week, we talk…