Clodagh and Alex dig deep with Professor Eliga Gould from the University of New Hampshire. We look at the American revolution, thinking about the nature of the conflict and how it set the framework for future development. We do mention cage fights on the White House lawn!

I this episode returning guest Professor Andrew Rudalevige talks with Clodagh and Alex about President Trump and the resilience of constitutional safeguards. There's a lot to discuss!

Clodagh and Alex talk with Professor Gary Gerstle about whether we now live in a post neo-liberal world. If so, what does that actually mean? And, as ever, what is Trump's role in all of this?

Clodagh and Alex talk with Professor John White about an American Pope and the decline of civility in public life

Clodagh and Alex talk to Professor Niels Bjerre-Poulsen from the University of Southern Denmark about why Greenland has become a focus of transatlantic tension and ask what this means for what used to be known as the western "alliance"

Returning guest Georg Loefflmann helps Clodagh and Alex come to some understanding of how Trumpworld is impacting the real world at the moment. It's not pretty!

In this episode Clodagh and Alex talk all things populist and Trump with Professor Lane Crothers. How did populism with a Trumpian flavour emerge? And, how much 'there' is actually there?

Professors John White and Luca Trenta join Clodagh and Alex to discuss the recent one-term presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden. George H W Bush also gets a, mostly honourable, mention. Does being an unwilling one-termer necessarily make a presidency a failure?

Clodagh and Alex discuss the legacy of Bidenomics and ponder what comes next with Professor Steve Pressman. There's probably a good reason why no-one does actually talk about Trumponomics, but we ask what we can expect in terms of tariffs and tax cuts

Clodagh and Alex discuss the election outcome with Paddy Andelic and returning guest Mike Cullinane. Paddy insists it was a close run thing, but that doesn't cheer Mike up much!