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Does power corrupt? Absolutely. This is the podcast about the hidden—and often nefarious—forces that shape our world. Election rigging. Smuggling. Narcopolitics. Ransom. Conspiracy Theories....
Artificial intelligence is the frontier of human innovation. But it has a dark side, too. In this episode, we explore how AI intersects with...
Is the next war going to happen in space? What are space weapons like, anyway? And why should we be worried about the space ventures of bill...
Is it a crime to steal back something that was once yours? That's the question we'll tackle this week, as we look at a string of sophisticat...
This week's episode is an excerpt from the opening chapter of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. (If you pre-order the book...
The title of this podcast is Power Corrupts. But is that true? In this week's episode, host Brian Klaas has the microphone turned around on...
The International Criminal Court prosecutes perpetrators of horrific crimes. But what if the perpetrator is also a victim? That's the questi...
How do you capture a pirate after they've hijacked a ship? In today's episode, we look at two ingenious sting operations that managed to lur...
Pirates can teach us quite a lot about democracy and economics. What can Blackbeard teach us about signaling theory? Why were pirates racial...
Can doing the wrong thing ever be the right policy? That's a question we'll tackle this week as we look at the possibility of letting some v...
What if you hacked a hitman-for-hire website and found out the identities of people who were slated to die before the murder? How much does...
Could you fake your death and get away with it? In this episode, we look at fake identities, from people who've tried to fake their own deat...
Is going into exile safe any longer? A few years ago, a former Rwandan intelligence chief hiding out in exile was found strangled to death i...
In early 2021, hackers infiltrated the software that controlled the city's water supply in Oldsmar, Florida. Through dumb luck, they caught...
We all know that offshore areas of financial secrecy exist. In this episode, we're going to take a look at the origin story of one of them....
When it comes to understanding the underworld of corruption and criminality, you can't just look at the rich crooks. You also have to look a...
They say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But when it comes to the underworld of corruption, murder, and greed, from d...
Pandemics are horrifying. But what if one could be unleashed deliberately? How did ancient armies from the Greeks to the Mongol hordes use g...
When revolutions happen, everything changes. In this episode, we'll look at why one revolution was launched when a rebel leader in southeast...
Pandemics are as old as human civilisation, from the Plague of Athens to mysterious diseases that ravaged armies throughout history. But the...
Have you ever made a catastrophic mistake? What if your mistakes could cause an empire to fall, a war to start, or thirty million people to...
Corruption is usually hidden. But sometimes, it's out in the open — either by design, or by incompetence. In this episode, we explore some u...
Christopher Blair has been called the Godfather of Fake News. He's an American troll. And whether you realized it or not, you've probably un...
When a brutal dictatorship collapses, there's a big problem: everyone who knows how to run the government is someone who worked for the brut...
If you're trying to consolidate power as a dictator, what's the best way to go about it? Is it better to be feared or loved? How do you elim...
Mercenaries are sometimes described as "the world's second oldest profession." But how do they operate today? Can mercenary armies topple di...
Propaganda has been around for thousands of years. But what separates the pros from the amateur propagandists? Why are North Korean radios m...
Come explore the dark side of power as we travel across the globe meeting the often unsavory characters who inhabit the hidden world of merc...
To end our first season we look at Nepotism. What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? Why did one dictator's son go from a hi...
What makes ordinary people commit extraordinarily violent acts? Is it their brain chemistry? Social pressure? Or a charismatic leader tellin...
When you think of heists, you probably think of masked men, bank robbers, and priceless art. But governments carry out heists, too. In this...
Why do dictators and despots create outlandish myths about themselves? Why spread lies claiming that you've written 18,000 books or that you...
The UK has a new prime minister. On his first day, Boris Johnson will handwrite four identical letters to the captains of Britain's nuclear...
How did 2 guys you've never heard of save the world from nuclear apocalypse? Can nuclear weapons be hacked? What's the most consequential ho...
You've probably heard of money laundering, but how does it actually work? How did billions of dollars of dirty gold from South America becom...
Why are countries that are rich in natural resources so often poor and war-torn? You've probably heard of blood diamonds, but what about blo...
Nick Yarris spent 22 years on death row. At one point, he even escaped. But then, right before he was slated to be executed, DNA evidence pr...
What's something that you do every 2 weeks? For Michelle Lyons, over a span of 12 years, she watched someone get executed every two weeks in...
Why did the CIA try to kill an African political leader with poisoned toothpaste? How did a sturdy couch save a leader from being killed dur...
Why did the war in Afghanistan hinge on the ability of a teenager to help buy 100 million bullets for the US military? Where do you even go...
What's the best way to smuggle a crocodile onto an airplane? What is the journey actually like for migrants getting smuggled from Afghanista...
What's it like to be held by Somali pirates for 977 days? Or to meet your Dad for the first time after he's been held in a basement in Beiru...
Disinformation is a powerful weapon. It forces your enemy to inflict damage upon themselves based upon lies that you've deliberately spread....
Why did a West African rebel leader send his troops into battle completely naked, protected only by talismans? How did threats of voodoo and...
How have drugs been used in warfare? Why does the cocaine in London nightclubs pass through a dictatorship in West Africa? Why did British s...
Why do some people believe unhinged conspiracy theories? How are they affecting our politics? How did insane theories—like QAnon—convert mil...
How do you rig an election—and get away with it? Why did a cult try to poison an entire county to win a local election? And what about using...
Does power corrupt? Absolutely. This is the podcast about the hidden—and often nefarious—forces that shape our world. Election rigging. Smug...