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March 19, 2024

Grand Strategy
A New U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for U.S. Retrenchment Overseas, With Stephen Wertheim

Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether and where the United States …

Podcast Members of South Korea's Army Special Warfare Command prepare to parachute during their military exercise with U.S. Special Operations Command in Gwangju, South Korea, on March 14, 2024.

February 8, 2024

Chile
Chile’s Inferno, NATO Ramps Up Security Exercises, Indonesia’s Presidential Election, and More

Chile works to recover from the devastating wildfire in its central Valparaíso region; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) continues with its 2024 Steadfast Defender exercise, the largest s…

Podcast Firefighters fighting wildfires in Viña del Mar, Chile on February 3, 2024

February 6, 2024

Iran
U.S. Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, With Ray Takeyh and Robin Wright

Ray Takeyh, the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at CFR, and Robin Wright, a contributing writer and columnist for the New Yorker, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the …

Podcast President Joe Biden on February 2, 2024, attends the transfer of the remains of three U.S. service members killed five days earlier in a drone attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan.

January 25, 2024

Haiti
Rebels Gain As Myanmar Marks Coup Anniversary, EU's Ukraine Aid Challenge, Kenya’s Pending Mission to Haiti, and More

The Three Brotherhood Alliance and other armed ethnic groups in Myanmar pose a significant threat to regime control as the country enters its third year under junta rule; the European Union (EU) meet…

Podcast Men run next to burning tires during a protest demanding an end to gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on August 14, 2023

December 26, 2023

United States
Year End Q&A Special, With Shannon O’Neil

Shannon O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to answer questions submit…

Podcast Holiday letters tied with ribbon.

December 21, 2023

2023 in Review
The World Next Year: Stories to Watch in 2024

In this special, year-end episode, Nahal Toosi, Politico’s senior correspondent for foreign affairs and national security, joins Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to review the biggest events of …

Podcast People play with an inflatable representation of the planet Earth in the Netherlands on September 9, 2023

October 24, 2023

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Future of the Israel-Hamas War, With Linda Robinson

Linda Robinson, a senior fellow for women and foreign policy at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the diplomatic and political challenges triggered by Hamas’s attack on Israel.

Podcast U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023.

October 11, 2023

Ukraine
The Case for Rebuilding Ukraine

On this episode of Why It Matters, experts discuss the unprecedented damage in Ukraine and who pays for post-war reconstruction efforts.

Podcast Ukrainian woman looks at rubble of destroyed building.

September 19, 2023

Ukraine
Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive, With Max Boot

Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at CFR and a columnist for the Washington Post, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the progress Ukraine is making…

Podcast A Ukrainian soldier indicates the positions of the Russian snipers in Serebryansky Forest on July 27, 2023.

September 14, 2023

Iran
Anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s Death, UN Summits On Climate and Development, Russia Recruits Cubans, and More

One year after the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police prompted widespread domestic protests, the Islamic Republic appears to have rebounded while keeping a prominent intern…

Podcast Iranian singer Gissoo Shakeri tears pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iranian community members and supporters of the National Council of Iran take part in a protest in solidarity with Iranian people, in Paris, France on February 12, 2023.