Jeffrey Franca, the drummer for DC’s own world music icon Thievery Corporation – the band that generously allows us to use its music to open our show each week – shares with us the value of unity, love and positivity in his work...
What do you do if you have a severe crisis of conscience over a policy that you cannot support? Do you speak up? Or do you keep your head down and do your job? If you use State’s established Dissent Channel, are you bound by its rules to keep...
Ambassador Larry Gambiner joins us to discuss a new deal in which President Maduro of Venezuela agreed to democratic reforms, including free and fair elections, in exchange for a reduction in US sanctions. But when opposition party candidate Maria...
Admiral Mike LeFever and Roderick Jones’s new book End Game First talks about collaborating with diplomats to rebuild Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake. Effective strategy means having a vision for a successful end result, no matter the...
Says Richard Verma, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, his job is to help create “the most effective, capable, inclusive, diverse department so that we can deliver for the American people,” and so that we can...
The atrocities are breathtaking. But once Israel starts picking up the bodies in the smoking rubble of whatever is left of Gaza, then what? Will Gaza return to Israeli occupation? Will there be some form of UN occupation? The...
How did Robert Menendez fall so hard? A suspected foreign agent? Hiding gold bullion? Pete and John Feeley knew a different man decades ago. A champion of Latinos in government at the start, a nasty, vindictive, corrupt...
Major General Spider Marks, formerly head of military intelligence for Korea, opines on Putin’s recent meeting with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. A game changer? No! But what would be? And while you’re here, learn why most...
No union is perfect, but it helps to try. Authoritarians worldwide exploit their citizens’ need for public safety to gain and hold power. If you can’t walk out of the house at night, bring the guy who makes the streets safe! But then...
Cambodia just “elected” another term for the ruling party, allowing the 38-year dictator Hun Sen to maintain dynastic rule for many years to come. The West does not like this. But what really are our economic, security and even...