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Who's Running Iran? (Bonus)

October 09, 2026

Subscribe now to listen to the full 18-minute episode (or preview the first 6 minutes).Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei remains invisible more than 7 months into an existential war for the regime's survival. He's yet to be seen in public and was reportedly seriously wounded on the war's first day in an air strike that killed his father.So, who is running Iran? Who is directing the war or making decisions at the negotiating table? Our guest is Trita Parsi, the executive vice presiden...

FDR's Fight With Fascism

October 09, 2026

Subscribe now to skip ads, get early access, and listen to all of our bonus content.When Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933, the country was paralyzed by the Great Depression and fascist jackboots were trampling democracy in Europe. As the 1930s wore on, the president and the American people came to see fascism as not only a threat to societies on the other side of the Atlantic, but as a danger to the American way of life, too. But what to do about it?How did FDR prepar...

The Rise and Fall of Political Islam

October 06, 2026

Subscribe now to skip ads, get early access, and listen to all of our bonus content.The Middle East is undergoing transformative changes. It's difficult, if not impossible, to see where things will end up. What is clear, however, is that political Islam — what the scholar Mohammed Ayoob says was "the dominant ideological challenger to the region’s authoritarian political systems" — is declining. Public confidence that Islamist movements, whether radical or pragmatic, can affect positive chang...