June 21, 2026 - Sina Toossi | Andrei Markovits | Alexander Motyl
Iran Closes the Strait Of Hormuz as Negotiators in Switzerland Try to Rescue the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal | Nazi Messages From DHS as MAGA-Trump...
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20 of 537 episodesJune 18, 2026 - Joshua Landis | R. Daniel Kelemen | Shawna Kidman
Vance Unloads on Israel in an Obvious Warning Not to Spoil the White House Deal With Iran | How to Stop an Autocrat From Rigging Another Ele...
June 17, 2026 - Robert Malley | Joshua Shifrinson | David Walbert
Even if Trump Has Given Away the Store, Diplomacy is Better Than Continuing to Fight a Lost War | The Price the U.S. Will Pay for Trump's Hu...
June 16, 2026 - Matthew Petti | Charles Kupchan | Jennifer Kavanagh
A Deal to Make a Deal Has Hawks on All Sides Terrified it Will Succeed | G-7 Leaders Bring Trump and Zelensky Together to Change the U.S. Ro...
June 15, 2026 - Juan Cole | Jeremi Suri | Quinn Slobodian
Iran Will Sign a Deal on Friday as the Winner, But Will the War Be Over? | As Texas Republicans Target Talarico's Masculinity, the White Hou...
June 14, 2026 - Harrison Mann | Aslı Bâli | Aaron Regunberg
Trump's 80th Birthday Present Today Is Mindless Violence Where Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden Once Stood Instead of Iran Signing a Peace Deal...
June 11, 2026 - Robert Pape | Elizabeth Goitein | Moira Donegan
Trump Tries To Spin His Way Out of a Defeat and the End of U.S. Hegemony in the Persian Gulf | Trump Ditches Pulte to Unblock FISA So the Go...
June 10, 2026 - Paul Pillar | Ira Shapiro
Trump's Plan to Destroy US Intelligence and Steal the Next Election | The Common Sense Coalition's Warning of the Trump Catastrophe For Our...
June 9, 2026 - Ben Burgis | Mitchell Prothero | Lisa Graves
In Spite of Hit Jobs From the Liberal Media, a Progressive Populist is Poised to Win in Maine | A Report From Albania on Protests Against Ja...
June 8, 2026 - Hussein Banai | Ben Freeman | James Risen
Trump to Netanyahu: "I Call The Shots" and You Have To Accept Any Peace Deal I Make with Iran | Amid Heightened Tensions Between the US and...
June 7, 2026 - David Hearst | Robert Kuttner | Steven Harper
The US and Iran Exchange Fire Jeopardizing a Tenuous Ceasefire As Iran Insists on Trump Handing Over $24 Billion of Its Money Before Finaliz...
June 4, 2026 - James Zirin | Amy Fried | Michael Kimmage
Now That Trump Has His Roy Cohn, Will the Senate Confirm Todd Blanche to be the Nation's Attorney General? | The Impact of the Latest Scanda...
June 3, 2026 - Sasha Abramsky | Edward McCaffery | Steven Simon
Election Results From Yesterday's Primaries With a Focus on California | Trump's Roy Cohn Does a Bait and Switch Ending the $1.8 Billion Slu...
June 2, 2026 - Thanassis Cambanis | Anne Nelson | Chris Whipple
After Being Cursed Out, Netanyahu Defies Trump, Declaring "Iran's Days Are Numbered" As He Continues Bombing Lebanon | How Larry and David E...
June 1, 2026 - Dr. Annelle Sheline | Suchi Mathur | Nina Burleigh
Iran Suspends Peace Talks With Trump as Netanyahu Pounds Lebanon | How ICE Contactors Profit From Misery as Stephen Miller's Cruelty is the...
May 31, 2026 - Mohsen Milani | Daniel Boguslaw | Stephen Walt
Trump's Silence as Iran Holds the Cards, in Particular the Strait of Hormuz, a Prize Our Idiot Gave Them | As Trump Monetizes His Presidency...
May 28, 2026 - Eli Clifton | Olga Lautman | Theodore Hamm
Trump Threatens to Blow Up Oman as Qatar and Bahrain Secretly Pay Bribes to Iran Not to Bomb Them | Trump Sells Out NATO to Putin Just as Uk...
May 27, 2026 -David Graham | James Moore | Jeffrey Winters
In Spite of the "Art of the Deal," Trump Keeps Getting Rolled in Negotiations | Paxton and the Moral Decay and Collapse of Decency and Disco...
May 26, 2026 - Katherine Hawkins | Harold Meyerson | Cory Haala
Another US Senator Assaulted by Trump and Stephen Miller's ICE and DHS Thugs | The California Crackup That Could Have Republican Reality TV...
May 25, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Nader Hashemi | Tom Mockaitis
On Memorial Day a Pentagon Run by a Racist Incompetent Whose Number Two is a Defense Contractor Entrenching the Military Industrial Complex...