North Korea debuts a massive new missile
14 Oct 2020
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The Trump administration argues with itself about troop withdrawal timelines in Afghanistan, Trump’...
COVID Commander-in-Chief
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The foreign policy implications of Trump catching Covid, erosion of democracy in India, a possible c...
Trump’s foreign IOUs
30 Sep 2020
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Trump’s taxes reveal foreign income and liabilities, why Armenia and Azerbaijan are at war, the Wh...
Assassin-in-Chief
23 Sep 2020
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Tommy and Ben discuss the latest on Russian election interference, the case for dismantling DHS, a s...
The Missing Peace
16 Sep 2020
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Tommy and Ben discuss the so-called “peace” deals between the UAE and Israel and Bahrain, the US...
Trump’s military complex
09 Sep 2020
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Tommy and Ben discuss reports that Trump routinely denigrates American servicemembers and veterans, ...
From Putin to pandas with Karen Attiah
02 Sep 2020
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Ben and guest co-host Karen Attiah, the Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post, talk about J...
The RNC live from Jerusalem
26 Aug 2020
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Tommy and Ben talk about the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the foreign-poli...
Blockbuster Senate report on Russian election interference
19 Aug 2020
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Foreign policy analyst and author Rula Jebreal joins to discuss the US-Israel-UAE diplomatic agreeme...
Kamala Harris on the world stage
12 Aug 2020
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Now that Senator Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s running mate, Ben and Tommy examine her foreign poli...
Explosions in Beirut
05 Aug 2020
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Tommy and Ben talk about the enormous explosions in Beirut, why Cuba has become an issue for Congres...
Ambassadors Gone Wild
29 Jul 2020
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Tommy and Ben make the case for Susan Rice as Vice President, the latest on escalating tensions betw...
Everything Mike Pompeo touches turns to sh*t
22 Jul 2020
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Democrats sound the alarm about foreign election interference. Experts say Israel and the US are res...
Dems in Congress push for a more progressive foreign policy
15 Jul 2020
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A leadership fight in Congress that could help make the Democratic Party’s foreign policy more pro...
Trump’s cruel immigration policies
08 Jul 2020
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Literally no one is surprised that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has contracted COVID, and how ...
Russian bounties with Rep Adam Schiff
01 Jul 2020
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Explosive reports that the Russia military has been paying Taliban-linked militants to kill US force...
John Bolton’s sh*tty book
24 Jun 2020
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Tommy and Ben talk through some of the explosive revelations in John Bolton’s book, from supportin...
Assault on the press and democracy in the Philippines
17 Jun 2020
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An attack on press freedom in the Philippines and what it could mean for the future of their democra...
Why policing is better abroad
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben examine how other countries structure and run their police forces to see if there are ...
The world is watching
03 Jun 2020
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The global reaction to the protests in the United States and the scary and inappropriate way the US ...
False START
27 May 2020
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China tries to crush dissent in Hong Kong. Tommy and Ben discuss what the White House, Congress and ...
The corruption of Mike Pompeo
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Al Qaeda stages its first successful attack on American soil since 9/11, exposing America’s broken...
Flynnocent After Proven Guilty
13 May 2020
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The political fallout from the failed coup attempt in Venezuela. General Flynn and the administratio...
Mercenaries invade Venezuela
06 May 2020
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Why the Trump administration is directing the intelligence community to prove their claims about Chi...
TMZ at the DMZ
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The latest rumors and news about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s health, and what we know about ...
Kim Jong Un-healthy?
22 Apr 2020
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Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu cuts a deal that allows him to stay in charge. We explain how ...
Samantha Power Hour
15 Apr 2020
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Former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus talks about Capt Crozier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and how ...
The Navy’s coronavirus clusterf*ck
08 Apr 2020
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A coronavirus clusterf*ck in the Navy leads the Acting Secretary of the Navy to resign. The virus se...
How a virus can threaten democracy
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s show is a little different. We skip the update on the spread of the coronavirus itself and...
A criminally negligent coronavirus response
25 Mar 2020
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Tommy and Ben go through the latest news on the international response to the coronavirus, including...
Our new coronavirus reality
18 Mar 2020
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Tommy and Ben talk about the new normal as the world combats the coronavirus. They cover how South K...
Coronavirus and oil shocks rock the global economy
11 Mar 2020
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Coronavirus update and explanation of why an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia is rockin...
A fragile peace deal in Afghanistan
04 Mar 2020
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Tommy and Ben talk about the fragile peace agreement between the US and the Taliban, the Israeli ele...
Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy record comes under attack
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First, Trump’s trip to India, his new and unqualified Director of National Intelligence, and shoul...
Bloomberg’s foreign policy and the global economy gets the coronavirus
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Bloomberg’s foreign policy record and platform. How some 2020 candidates failed a foreign pol...
How the CIA broke the world’s encryption
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben tell some stories about the New Hampshire primary in 2008, walk through a report on a ...
Jared still sucks
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s topics include: Brexit, updates on the Coronavirus, why Trump made Venezuela a focus of hi...
Trump kills the Middle East peace process
29 Jan 2020
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First, Tommy and Ben talk about Trump’s plan to help Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu win ree...
That’s President Sh*thole to you
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will new facial recognition technology end privacy as we know it? Can Trump scare the Intelligence C...
Iran and the lies we told along the way
15 Jan 2020
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Tommy and Ben cover the latest developments in the Iran crisis, including why the intelligence and l...
Iran retaliates to the Soleimani strike
08 Jan 2020
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Tommy and Ben talk about the fallout from Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian general Qassem S...
Trump goes to war with Iran
03 Jan 2020
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In a bonus episode, Tommy and Ben discuss Trump’s decision to assassinate a top Iranian official n...
UK election aftermath
18 Dec 2019
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British MP David Lammy joins to talk about the UK elections and what they mean for Brexit and the fu...
A history of failure in Afghanistan
11 Dec 2019
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Tommy and Ben explain why the Russian foreign minister is in Washington and why Vladimir Putin is in...
NATO’s “brain death”
04 Dec 2019
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Tommy and Ben talk about Trump’s trip to London for the NATO summit, including his dustup with the...
Panic at the Pentagon
27 Nov 2019
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First, Tommy talks with former DOD official and national security expert Kelly Magsamen about Trump’...
Impeachmentpalooza
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben discuss the increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, the impeachment hearing...
President Erdogan crashes the impeachment hearings
13 Nov 2019
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Tommy and Ben talk about Fmr President Evo Morales's abrupt departure from Bolivia and whether to ca...
Breaking down the Baghdadi raid
06 Nov 2019
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Tommy and Ben discuss what the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi means for ISIS as well as Trump's stran...
Announcing: What A Day
01 Nov 2019
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“What A Day,” Crooked Media’s new daily news podcast, is here! Hosted by comedian Akilah Hugh...
LIVE from J Street
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben record a special episode from D.C. at the national conference hosted by the progressiv...
Bill Taylor’s got the Ukraine receipts
23 Oct 2019
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Tommy and Ben talk about the latest on impeachment and about Turkey’s invasion of Syria. Then they...
Send Rudy Giuliani to Syria
16 Oct 2019
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Tommy and Ben talk about disaster unfolding in Syria, fact check Trump’s claim that he’s ending ...
Abandoning our allies in Syria
09 Oct 2019
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Tommy and Ben discuss Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of Syria and let Turkey begin a milit...
Ukraine, corruption, and partners in crime
02 Oct 2019
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First, Tommy and Ben discuss Trump’s quid pro quo with Ukraine, that country’s history with corr...
Impeach the mofo
25 Sep 2019
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Tommy talks with national security expert Kelly Magsamen about Trump’s attempt to extort Ukraine f...
Trump on Iran: Locked and Bloated
18 Sep 2019
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Tommy and Ben talk about the growing risk of war with Iran in the wake of the attack on Saudi Arabia...
Bye Bye Bolton
11 Sep 2019
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Tommy and Ben bid farewell to Trump’s former National Security Advisor, John Bolton. Then they dis...
Don’t look back in Brexit
04 Sep 2019
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wild decision to suspend parliament and try to force a Brex...
What Worldos wanna know (Mailbag episode!)
28 Aug 2019
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Tommy and Ben answer listener questions in a special mailbag episode. Then, Ben chats with Congressm...
Massive, global problems and the idiots trying to solve them
21 Aug 2019
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Tommy and Ben talk about the ongoing controversy over Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib being b...
Dunking on Erdogan with Enes Kanter
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Police crack down as protests escalate to new heights in Hong Kong. An explosion involving a nuclear...
Stopping domestic terrorism
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben talk about the threat from domestic terrorism, the escalating trade war with Ch...
Paging Moscow Mitch McConnell
31 Jul 2019
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First, Tommy and Ben discuss President Trump’s choice to be his Director of National Intelligence....
A$AP Trumpy
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben discuss the new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Hong Kong protests turn violent, ...
Pour one out for the Iran deal
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben talk about Trump's new asylum rules, an Iran update, the global response to Tru...
Ivanka the diplomat
10 Jul 2019
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Trump picks a Twitter fight with the British Ambassador to the US. Iran revs up its uranium enrichme...
Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
03 Jul 2019
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Tommy sits down with former Defense Secretary Ash Carter to chat about his book “Inside the Five-S...
Iran and a hard place
26 Jun 2019
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Tommy and Ben talk through Trump's bizarre on again, off again war with Iran. They explain how the t...
Trump’s torched credibility on Iran
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben talk about the rapidly escalating tensions with Iran, some good news for the pr...
Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s foreign policy speech
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben discuss Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s foreign policy speech and Trump’s ongoing an...
A Kingdom United against Trump
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben Rhodes are joined by former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Af...
Low IQ President visits Japan
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben discuss the European parliament election results, Trump’s trip to Japan and t...
Fox News loves war crimes
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week Tommy and Ben check their anxiety levels when it comes to potential war with Iran, try to ...
Please don’t bomb Iran
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben talk about the escalating trade war with China, the drumbeat for real war with Iran, h...
Threats from Iran and the time Ben met the Queen
08 May 2019
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First, Tommy and Ben discuss the US sending an aircraft carrier to the Middle East in response to th...
Venezuela, Libya and the Russian navy's beluga whale
01 May 2019
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First, Tommy and Ben talk about violent clashes in Venezuela, Trump pouring gas on Libya's civil war...
ISIS in Sri Lanka, cruelty to Cuba, Ukrainian elections
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben discuss the horrific Easter Sunday terrorist attack in Sri Lanka, North Korea's...
Assange arrested, Bernie's foreign policy, Bowe Bergdahl and Afghanistan
17 Apr 2019
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Tommy and Ben discuss the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Bernie's foreign policy, poten...
Israeli elections, Iran under fire and the IRA's history
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Iran expert Kelly Magsamen joins Tommy and Ben to discuss Trump's decision to designate the IRGC a t...
Democracy resurgent in Europe(?) and Israeli elections
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben discuss Trump's decision to cut off aid to central America, whether recent elec...
Brexit, fighting in Gaza, ISIS defeated(?) and eliminating nukes
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy, Ben Rhodes and former Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken discuss Brexit, tensions ...
White supremacists radicalized online
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben talk about the New Zealand terrorist attack and the rise of right-wing extremis...
Brexit and is Dick Cheney good now? (no)
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben talk about the ongoing Brexit disaster, Dick Cheney's surprisingly accurate cri...
Antisemitism, the NSA, Khashoggi, then Fmr Dep Secretary of State Bill Burns
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben Rhodes talk about the NSA shutting down its controversial metadata program, mor...
BONUS POD: North Korea summit
01 Mar 2019
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Tommy and Ben explain why Trump's second North Korea summit was a total disaster. Then they discuss ...
Trump's North Korea summit v.2, Venezuela, international LGBT rights
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben Rhodes talk about India bombing Pakistan, Trump's second meeting with North Kor...
How former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon views the world
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Ben Rhodes calls in from Europe to talk about the Munich Security Summit, Steve Bannon runnin...
Ilhan Omar’s tweets spark a debate about anti-semitism
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy talks with author Peter Beinart about the controversy around Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's...
544 days in an Iranian prison
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben talk with the Washington Post's Jason Rezaian about his book Prisoner, which details t...
Who is President of Venezuela?
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy talks with Anthony Faiola, the Washington Post bureau chief for South America and the Caribbe...
Brexit breakdown
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben talk with David Lammy, a member of parliament from the UK, about the slow-rolli...
Owned by Russia but itching to bomb Iran
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben discuss two stories about the Trump administration agitating to attack Iran. Th...
New year, same problems
09 Jan 2019
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First, Tommy talks with Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin about Trump's Syria flip flops and how he's dem...
Foreign policy in 2019
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben Rhodes talk about Trump pulling US troops out of Syria, the MLB and Cuba, and then tal...
The French President and General Flynn had a bad, bad week
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben Rhodes discuss General Flynn's trial and what the hell he was doing for the Turkish go...
U.S. policy towards Israel
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy and Ben Rhodes talk with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro about his time in Israel...
The 2020 Democrats and foreign policy
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy and Ben talk through George H.W. Bush's foreign policy record, the good the bad and the...
War between Russia and Ukraine, Wikileaks, Brexit and more
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy talks with former US Ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul about fighting between Russia and...
Update on Jamal Khashoggi and monitoring right-wing extremism
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
First, Tommy talks with Karen Attiah, the Washington Post Global Opinions Editor who used to edit Ja...