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The *hottest* national security and foreign policy podcast featuring conversations with leading policy practitioners, thinkers, and leaders. In each episode, we open up a 'burn bag' to break...
As geopolitical tensions spill into the Indian Ocean, smaller states in South Asia are finding themselves on the frontlines of crises they d...
In this episode of the Burn Bag Podcast, A'ndre Gonawela is joined by Mira Rapp-Hooper, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Insti...
Who is Mojtaba Khamenei — Iran's new Supreme Leader? Who was the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? In this episode of the Burn Bag Podcast, A’ndr...
As the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran escalates following the February 28 strikes, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Es...
In this episode of The Burn Bag , A’ndre Gonawela sits down with former NSC Senior Director Javed Ali to unpack the rapidly escalating crisi...
Iran is at a critical juncture as it faces a wave of nationwide protests driven by economic strain, political frustration, and societal exha...
Syria is at a pivotal moment. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the country’s new leadership under President Ahmed al-Sharaa is working to...
In this episode of The Burn Bag , A’ndre Gonawela is joined by Dr. Iulia Joja , Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, to examine Russi...
In Part Two of this conversation on Venezuela, The Burn Bag turns to the present — and the shockwaves following U.S. strikes and the arrest...
In this episode of The Burn Bag , host A’ndre Gonawela is joined by Tony Frangie Mawad, a Venezuela-based journalist and political scientist...
In the final episode of The Nuclear Threshold , A’ndre speaks with Alexandra Bell , President & CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
In the second installment of The Nuclear Threshold mini-series, we turn from missile defense to the human side of nuclear risk — the people,...
The Nuclear Threshold is a three-part Burn Bag mini-series exploring how deterrence, defense, and diplomacy shape nuclear risk in the 21st c...
As the fragile Gaza ceasefire wavers amid renewed airstrikes and mutual accusations of violations, President Donald Trump insists that “noth...
RE-RELEASE: This episode was originally released in February 2025. In this episode, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins A'ndre for an in-depth conv...
The Pentagon is one of the hardest customers in the world to win over. For startups, the barriers are steep: complex rules, unfamiliar offic...
In this episode of The Burn Bag, political violence expert Dr. Robert Pape joins us to unpack the alarming rise of political violence in Ame...
In this episode, A’ndre Gonawela sits down with John McLaughlin , former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the CIA and now Professor of...
Former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns joins The Burn Bag to unpack the fragile U.S.–China tariff truce, the state of ongoing trade...
Jim Hake, founder of Spirit of America , joins The Burn Bag to discuss why civilians matter in modern national security—and how his organiza...
Former NSC official Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman joins The Burn Bag to break down the fallout from the Trump–Putin summit in Alaska, th...
The war in Ukraine didn’t start in 2022—it started in Crimea in 2014. In this episode, we sit down with University of Michigan professor and...
In this episode of The Burn Bag , A’ndre sits down with retired CIA analyst Gina Bennett , who famously authored the first classified warnin...
Dr. Kurt Campbell, former Deputy Secretary of State and an architect of the U.S. “Pivot to Asia,” joins the Burn Bag to unpack the strategic...
In this episode, we’re joined by Shubhi Mishra, founder and CEO of Raft, to talk about what it takes to become a new defense prime. Shubhi c...
On this episode of The Burn Bag , we unpack the U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites—marking a sharp escalation in the Israel-Iran confli...
In this episode, A’ndre speaks with retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, former commander of Joint Special Operations Command and t...
In this episode, A’ndre speaks with his old boss Dr. Paul Staniland, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a leadi...
In this episode, A’ndre speaks with Mark Linscott, former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative and one of Washington’s most experienced trade...
In this episode, A’ndre speaks with Dr. Yousef Munayyer, Senior Fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, about recent U.S. policy developmen...
This week, A’ndre is joined by former National Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton for a wide-ranging conversation on the return of Dona...
This week on the podcast, A’ndre is joined by renowned national security attorney Mark Zaid to unpack the rapidly unfolding scandal now know...
In this episode, A’ndre Gonawela sits down with historian and University of Utah professor Peter Roady to explore how the definition of nati...
In this episode, A’ndre Gonawela sits down with Dr. Jaime Yassif, Vice President of Global Biological Policy and Programs at NTI | bio, to e...
NOTE: This episode was recorded several hours before the announcement that President Trump was pausing all U.S. military aid to Ukraine. In...
This week, A’ndre examines former President Trump’s decision to fire General CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, exploring th...
In this week’s edition of What in the World? , A’ndre discusses the recent political turmoil in South Korea with his colleagues Alex Eid and...
The Burn Bag is launching a new weekly series: "The World According to A'ndre." Every Friday, A'ndre will break down some of the b...
In this episode, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins A'ndre for an in-depth conversation about his decades-long career in public health and his exp...
In this episode, A’ndre chats with his old boss Dr. Tanvi Madan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, to examine the evolving lands...
In this episode, A’ndre welcomes Professor Marlene Laruelle , a leading expert on Russian politics and nationalism, for a deep dive into the...
On this week's What in the World, A’ndre chatted with Tahra Jirari, Director of Economic Analysis at the Chamber of Progress, on the de...
This episode is the second in a two-parter in collaboration with the Climate Migration Council, to highlight the Council's recent posit...
This episode is the first in a two-parter in collaboration with the Climate Migration Council, to highlight the Council's recent positi...
RE-RELEASE: This episode was originally released in April 2024. The TikTok ban took effect late Saturday night, but may be revoked by Presid...
On Friday, A’ndre chatted with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, a presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential...
On January 2nd, A'ndre sat down with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (2019-2020) to discuss key security challenges facing...
A'ndre sat down with former CIA Director General (Ret.) David Petraeus to discuss the evolution of warfare since 1945, covering conflic...
On Thursday, Israel announced that it had killed Hamas' de facto leader Yahya Sinwar near Rafah, a significant development for the ongo...
In this re - release of our popular episode from October 2021 (excuse the old theme music!), A'ndre and Ryan speak with George Will, Pu...