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Weekly long-form conversations with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security. Unscripted. Informal. Always fresh.Chatter guests roll with the punches to describe artisti...
After more than three years, Chatter is ending its run. In this episode, Shane and David reflect on the diverse range of topics at the front...
Carmen Medina defies simple description. She spent more than 30 years at the CIA, rising to the leadership team of the Directorate of Intell...
Shane Harris makes no secret about his love for the film version of this Cold War submarine thriller, based on the Tom Clancy novel. It’s hi...
International politics and security expert Dr. Ben Tallis, who now directs the Berlin-based Democratic Strategy Initiative, joined David Pri...
Sherri Goodman was the first Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security and has worked on issues around climate change, th...
Rachel Shelden is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Richards Civil War Center at Penn State University. She joined David Pr...
Donald Trump is going back to the White House and is already busy stocking his future Cabinet. Shane Harris sat down with two of The Washing...
As the US tries to come to grips with a resurgence of political violence in recent years, it's instructive to look at how the norm against p...
It’s Election Day, but we’re not talking about the campaign. Shane Harris welcomes Tim Naftali back to the show to talk about Americans’ fas...
Mark Pomar served as assistant director of the Russian Service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, director of the USSR Division at the Voic...
Professor Sanford Levinson has written extensively about the fragility of the Constitution. A likely contested election, AI, and ongoing gri...
The Earth's oceans differ from its land areas in many ways, including the historically powerful norm of "freedom of the seas." David Priess...
Stoicism is having a moment.The ancient philosophy--which posits that you can’t control events, but you can control how you respond to them-...
Conspiracy theories about supposed Jewish control of global finance and politics have been circulating and influencing popular culture for c...
The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986 riveted millions of Americans, who watched the horrific event live on televisi...
Science journalist Sarah Scoles has written extensively about astronomy and the UFO community, including in her 2021 book They Are Already H...
Council on Foreign Relations fellow, Washington Post columnist, and author of military history books Max Boot has just completed a definitiv...
Walt Hickey is the Deputy Editor for Data and Analysis at Insider News, and the author of You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect E...
For more than 40 years, Peter Clement has studied Russian political culture and leaders--serving for most of that time as an analyst, manage...
It’s January 6, 2025. Congress has convened to certify electoral votes in the presidential election. But members of the U.S. military are in...
Gina Bennett had a remarkable intelligence career of more than three decades, focusing on counterterrorism even before the first World Trade...
On this week’s show, Lawfare’s Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with longtime Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer to discuss his mémoire of...
At the start of every presidential administration, the nominees for more than 1,000 civilian positions require Senate confirmation. A large...
This week, we’re at the Aspen Security Forum, the annual gathering of national security and foreign policy heavyweights. The conference regu...
The Star Wars universe gets a lot of attention for its lightsabers, space battles, and witty droids. But over the decades, a rich lore has d...
Joseph Cox is an award-winning investigative journalist and the co-founder of 404 Media. He is also the world’s leading reporter on the FBI'...
As the Second World War started, an unsung cadre of US librarians and other information management professionals was making its way to Europ...
Libertarianism doesn’t fit easily on the traditional left-right spectrum of American politics. The philosophy upholds personal liberty as a...
Renée DiResta is the author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality . Until the other day, she was one of the brains behi...
Paul Sparrow, who served as Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum from 2015 to 2022, has written the book Aw...
In the wake of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union set off on the great space race, competing to see which super power coul...
Raised in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia), Dr. Anaïs Maurer is assistant professor of literature at Rutgers University and author of The Ocean...
Tim Alberta is an American journalist and author, and son of an evangelical pastor. Following his father’s death in 2019, Alberta began a fo...
Migration has always been a part of humanity's story. It will continue to be so long after any of us now living are gone. Population shifts...
David Ignatius has worked at the Washington Post for more than 35 years in various roles and won many awards. He has written a column on for...
For a period of time in the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, employer in the city of Miami...
David Sanger has been writing for the New York Times since he graduated from college more than four decades ago. Over that period, Sanger ha...
Author and speaker Virginia Postrel has spent many years researching and writing about, among other things, various aspects of the economics...
For decades, country music has had a close and special relationship to the U.S. military. In his new book, Cold War Country , historian Jose...
The "deep state." The "blob." Foreign policy elites are often so labeled, misunderstood, and denigrated. But what influence on presidents an...
Without warning, North Korea launches a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile at the United States. American satellites detect th...
Charlie Sykes recently stepped down as host of the Bulwark Podcast. He's a regular commentator on MSNBC, and has written a number of books....
If you’re listening to this podcast, chances are you’ve heard stories about the CIA’s experiments with drugs, particularly LSD, during the i...
Jonna Mendez advanced in her Central Intelligence Agency career to become Chief of Disguise despite the many institutional challenges to wom...
We all know how superpower competition spurred one giant leap for mankind on the lunar surface in July 1969. But the story of how the Moon a...
Joe Biden took office with a big ambition: To repair America’s reputation abroad and set the country on a new path, where foreign policy wou...
In February 2022, Russia launched a full scale invasion into Ukraine in the largest attack on a European country since World War II. This in...
Some people call it "investor citizenship" while others label it a "passport for sale" scheme. Either way, the last few decades have seen th...
American aid to global victims of natural disasters might seem like a relatively new phenomenon, perhaps linked to the Marshall Plan and oth...
Outer space is back in style. For the first time in decades, NASA is sending astronauts back to the moon. Millionaires are exiting the atmos...