S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot concludes with the Zimmerman Telegram sealing America's entry into WWI, followed by the eventual deaths of Roosevelt and Wilson and Jane Addams's later Nobel Peace Pri...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot recounts Wilson's narrow victory and his proposal of peace without victory, examining the president's segregationist views and Jane Addams's persistent efforts toward interna...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot covers Charles Evans Hughes winning the Republican nomination, forcing Roosevelt to abandon Progressives, while suffrage leaders pressure candidates to support a federal amen...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot explains how following the Sussex sinking, Wilson faces pressure to sever German ties, as international ambassadors clash and German leaders grow increasingly distrustful of ...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot discusses Roosevelt campaigning for military preparedness for Republican favor, while Wilson embarks on a speaking tour to convince the skeptical Midwest of necessary nationa...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot describes the sinking of the Lusitania forcing Wilson to navigate war demands, leading to William Jennings Bryan's resignation and the rise of Edith Galt's significant influe...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot recounts Jane Addams establishing the Women's Peace Party and traveling through 1915 Europe, attempting shuttle diplomacy while facing intense domestic criticism for her bold...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot introduces Jane Addams, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson in 1912, examining their distinct intellectual backgrounds and competing visions for America's reformist future...
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin explores the politicized investigation into COVID-19's origins at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and characterizes the US-China confrontation as a long-term generational st...
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin details the 2020 trade deal signing just as Matthew Pottinger attempted to warn a distracted White House about the emerging COVID-19 threat in Wuhan. 7
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin explains how the CCP exploits academic integration through the Thousand Talents Plan and how Wall Street continues to resist decoupling despite national security risks. 6
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin examines whether the US-China rivalry is a new Cold War and how the CCP enforces its political agenda on American companies like the NBA through exported censorship. 5
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin discusses the 301 report on intellectual property theft, the shift toward an Indo-Pacific strategy, and the chaotic arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in 2018. 4
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin reveals the Bingo Club, a secret group tracking Chinese influence in American society, and discusses allegations regarding elite corruption and the CCP's United Front operation...
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin describes the conflict between Trump's Wall Street advisors seeking trade deals and hardliners pushing for a trade war during the early 2017 Mar-a-Lago summit with Xi Jinping. 2
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin explains how Trump's 2016 victory upended the Obama administration's optimistic China policy, leading to immediate diplomatic confusion regarding Taiwan and China's territorial...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham discusses Document 9, which targets Western ideas for destruction, alongside China's massive military buildup and the devastating political consequences of a potenti...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham explores why economic intertwining will not prevent war, noting China's willingness to endure domestic hardship for national rejuvenation and the failure of Western ...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham explains Xi Jinping's psychological warfare tactics and mal-marketing strategies designed to make Americans dependent while China telegraphs military expansion thro...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham describes how China attacked Baltimore through economic subversion and fentanyl, detailing US policy failures that welcomed China into the WTO despite missed require...
S8 Ep499: Jonathan Pelson proposes using Open RAN and Western strengths in cloud technology and software to break Huawei's dominance through permissionless innovation and diverse ecosystems challen...
S8 Ep499: onathan Pelson details Huawei's aggressive wolf culture and the alarming discovery of its equipment surrounding US nuclear missile bases, highlighting a long-ignored national security thr...
S8 Ep499: onathan Pelson reveals Huawei's links to Chinese state security, instances of stolen Lucent source code, and how the company leveraged low prices to penetrate European networks and critic...
S8 Ep499: Jonathan Pelson recounts the evolution of Chinese telecommunications since 1980, AT&T's failure to predict the wireless market, and the early opportunistic founding of Huawei that exploit...
S8 Ep498: Jeremy Zakis reports irregular weather is driving venomous snakes into unusual residential locations, with a Victorian woman startled by a copperhead wrapping around her leg while Queensl...
S8 Ep497: Jeremy Zakis describes Dallas, an eleven-year-old dog, patrolling to protect his property from aggressive cockatoos that previously dismantled a neighbor's roof, with a gang of up to seve...
S8 Ep497: Jeremy Zakis reports irregular weather is driving venomous snakes into unusual residential locations, with a Victorian woman startled by a copperhead wrapping around her leg while Queensl...
S8 Ep497: Jeremy Zakis notes the Australian T20 cricket team was eliminated early from their tournament following a catastrophic loss to Zimbabwe and a rained-out match, observing that T20 has evol...
S8 Ep496: 4. Stevenson-Yang 4: Post-Pandemic Deflation and the Surveillance State. Severe COVID-19 lockdowns shattered public trust, leaving China facing local government debt crises and deflation ...
S8 Ep495: 3. Stevenson-Yang 3: Ghost Cities and the Infrastructure Credit Boom. Massive cash injections fueled construction of empty "ghost cities" and emulated Western landmarks, leading to a monu...
S8 Ep495: 2. Stevenson-Yang 2: The Rise of Red Capitalists and Princelings. Following the Tiananmen tragedy, China attracted capital by empowering "princelings" to manage state assets, creating a u...
S8 Ep495: 1. Stevenson-Yang 1: The Evolution of China’s Economic Transformation. Anne Stevenson-Yang recounts her 1994 Xi’an visit, contrasting tattered manufacturing exhibits with the impoverished...
S8 Ep494: 8. Bunker 8: Political Corruption and the Path to War. As Truman faced sinking approval ratings and corruption scandals, Margaret Chase Smith bravely challenged McCarthyism shortly befo...
S8 Ep494: 7. Bunker 7: NSC-68 and the Massive Military Buildup. In response to the Soviet atomic test, Paul Nitze authored NSC-68, a top-secret document advocating for a massive tripling of the Uni...
S8 Ep494: 6. Bunker 6: Stalin’s Green Light for the Korean Invasion. Stalin authorized Kim Il-sung’s invasion of the South after perceiving American weakness and ambiguity in Secretary Acheson’s de...
S8 Ep494: 5. Bunker 5: The Hiss Conviction and McCarthy’s Senate Rise. Alger Hiss’s perjury conviction empowered Senator McCarthy to launch an aggressive five-hour speech, fundamentally altering th...
S8 Ep494: 4. Bunker 4: Labor Unrest and the Cold Winter Strike. The 1950 coal strike led by John L. Lewis paralyzed the nation, posing a major domestic challenge for Truman during the early Cold Wa...
S8 Ep494: 3. Bunker 3: The Republican Insurgency and Robert Taft’s Vision. Robert Taft championed an "Asia First" foreign policy while Joe McCarthy began hijacking the Republican agenda, transformi...
S8 Ep494: 2. Bunker 2: Stalin, Mao, and the Communist Asian Strategy. Joseph Stalin cautiously hosted Mao Zedong in Moscow, eventually providing industrial support and military aid while seeking to...
S8 Ep494: 1. Bunker 1: Truman’s Fair Deal and Internal Party Strife. In late 1949, President Truman struggled to implement his liberal Fair Deal reforms while facing a budget-draining recession and...
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman concludes by crediting American finance for enabling these scientific breakthroughs and expressing optimism that mRNA technology will soon tackle cancer and other i...
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman describes the climactic moment vaccine results arrived, with Pfizer and Moderna reporting high efficacy, while Novavax and AstraZeneca faced unique logistical and reputa...
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman examines the global race between Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, and J&J, emphasizing the different scientific approaches and the logistical advantages of one-shot ...
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman highlights Moderna's desperate struggle for funding and manufacturing equipment, which was finally resolved by a massive Wall Street investment during the pandemic's pea...
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman details Gail Smith's insect-based vaccine technology at Novavax and discusses how major pharmaceutical giants like Merck initially hesitated to join the pandemic race. 4
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman introduces the brilliant, driven scientists pursuing vaccines for AIDS, cancer, and malaria, who pivoted their controversial methodologies to confront the burgeoning COV...
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman profiles Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel and the pivotal mRNA research by Kariko and Weissman, noting the company's difficult transition from drug therapies to vaccines. 2
S8 Ep493: Gregory Zuckerman recounts the dramatic mapping and sharing of the COVID-19 genetic sequence, which launched global efforts to develop messenger RNA and adenovirus-based vaccines against ...
S8 Ep492: Mary Roach describes the process of tissue donation, focusing on corneal transplants and the meticulous, respectful recovery of bone and skin to benefit many patients awaiting procedures. 4
S8 Ep491: Mary Roach details xenotransplantation and chimeras for organ replacement, while also recounting historical nasal reconstructions and the use of the Fibonacci sequence in modern plastic s...
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