Fault Lines Episode 638: Sovereign Territory: Enclaves, Empires, and the Limits of Self-Determination
Today, John, Les, Jess, and Jamil take stock of a world where territorial sovereignty is suddenly anything but settled. From Spain's enclave...
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20 of 650 episodesFault Lines Episode 637: Houthis Hit Riyadh: Where’s Washington?
Today, Jess, Jamil, Les, and John break down the deadly Houthi strikes on Riyadh's airport, which killed well over a dozen people — includin...
Fault Lines Episode 636: Contagion and Capital Punishment: A Week of Warning Signs
Today, Les, John, and Amy confront a collision of alarming headlines: a plague outbreak traced to Russian anti-plague research institute, an...
Fault Lines Episode 635: Red Sea Rising: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the Houthi Offensive
Today, John, Jamil, Les, and Matt examine the renewed Saudi and Yemeni offensive against Houthi forces along the western coast of Yemen, a s...
Fault Lines Episode 634: B-1s Out of Britain
Today, Les, Jamil, John, and Jess examine the sudden withdrawal of twelve U.S. B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford following the arrest and swift...
Fault Lines Episode 633: Rebound Diplomacy and the Pentagon's New Playbook
Today, Jess, Les, John, and Amy examine two developments reshaping how America projects power. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman was photographe...
Fault Lines Episode 632: A Super Intelligence Summit
Today, John, Les, and Jamil break down Trump's high-profile AI summit, where the president gathered leaders from the country's biggest tech...
Fault Lines Episode 631: Strait Talk: Iran's Diplomacy Gambit and the Trump Ultimatum
Today, Les, Jamil, John, and Andy examine the latest twist in U.S.-Iran negotiations after reports emerged that the Trump administration rej...
Fault Lines Episode 630: UNGA, Multilateralism, and the Limits of Global Institutions
Today, Jess, John, Les, and Algene break down a packed week at the UN General Assembly in New York, where world leaders delivered speeches r...
Fault Lines Episode 629: The New Fight for Greenland
Today, John, Les, Jess, and Jeffrey break down the new U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement, which amends the foundational 1951 defense...
Fault Lines Episode 628: Xi in Washington: Trade, Tech, Taiwan, and the Iran Wild Card
Today, Les, John, Jess, and Amy break down the high-stakes summit between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, taking place in...
Fault Lines Episode 627: The Saudi Arabia Squeeze
Today, Jess, Les, John, and Andrew dig into the Houthis' resurgent offensive and the widening regional crisis it has triggered. With Houthi...
Fault Lines Episode 626: Space, Deterrence, and the New Frontier of U.S. Defense
Today, Jamil, Les, John, and Matt dig into the Pentagon's confirmation that the United States has deployed weapons on orbit, marking a possi...
Fault Lines Episode 625: Pacing The Killer Robots — AI's Week of Reckoning
Today, John, Jamil, Les, and Jess dig into a week defined by alarm bells from the people building artificial intelligence. Reports of model...
Fault Lines Episode 624: The Global War on Terror, 25 Years After 9/11
Today, Les, Amy, Jess, and John mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks by taking stock of where America stands in the long st...
Fault Lines Episode 623: Graham's Gambit: Russia, Iran, and the Politics That Killed the Bill
Today, Jess, Les, and John examine the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, a sweeping sanctions bill that passed the Senate o...
Fault Lines Episode 622: The Barrel Gap & The Oil Deal— How Oil Has Taken Center Stage In The World’s Major Conflicts and How Long Before Prices Finally Skyrocket
Today, John, Les, and special guest Clayton Seigle, Managing Director of Energy Practice at Beacon Global Strategies, take stock of the most...
Fault Lines Episode 621: Iran After the Strikes: Cut the BS
Today, John, Les, and Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, co-lead of the Air and Missile Defense Program and Senior Director of the Center...
Fault Lines Episode 620: From Aid to Trade in Africa
Today, Les and John sit down with Tibor Nagy, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and former Ambassador to Ethiopia and...
Fault Lines Episode 619: The Latin American Pendulum
Today, Les, John, and special guest Carlos Ruiz-Hernandez—former Panamanian Deputy Secretary of State—assess the Trump administration's rene...