In this episode, I sit with Dr. Stewart Patrick from the Council on Foreign Relations. I spoke with him about his fascinating new book, The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World (https://www.amazon.com/Sovereignty-Wars-Reconciling-America-World/dp/0815731590), the new/old direction of the current administration vis-a-vis sovereignty, and some of the shifting sands around this topic in the global world order.

Just before his dinner speech at Las Campanas Clubhouse, I was able to sit with the extraordinary Dr. Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Labs, and a pre-eminent expert on North Korea and its nuclear ambitions. How should President Trump approach the upcoming talks with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un? What will be the effect of a new Secretary of State? What do the North Koreans really want?

In this episode, I sit with Professor Janet Steele, author of the new book Mediating Islam, Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia. We touch on all kinds of topics - including the very different yet fascinating approaches to journalism in Indonesia - just before Prof. Steele took to the CIR stage for a special luncheon. She is an absolutely fantastic speaker - I think we all learned a tremendous amount from her.

In this episode, I sit with the brilliant Renaissance Man Braden Allenby, a professor from Arizona State University. His December talk on "The Weaponized Narrative" left CIR members speechless - I saw smoke coming out of several ears in his scorching and dark intellectual take on Russian meddling in US electoral processes, fake news, and our social-media-fed echochambers...

In this episode, Stanford University's Martha Crenshaw and I talk all about ISIS, its future, and the many surprises across the Middle East, from Saudi Arabia to Syria to US foreign policy.

In this episode, I sit with Denver University's Prof. Andrea Stanton. In celebration of Human Rights Day 2017, we break down all kinds of issues around Islam and human rights - she has some outstanding observations and insights.

In this episode, I sit with Turkey expert Soner Cagaptay, from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. We discuss all kinds of dynamics currently unfolding in Turkey, from its divided populace to its rationally irrational president.

Just before our Annual Gala on October 20th, I had the opportunity to sit with Amb. Burns, a brilliant thinker and speaker.

As the latest installment in our Broken Border (https://www.sfcir.org/the-broken-border/) series, I sat with Terry Goddard, the former Attorney General from Arizona. In this episode, we talk about the extreme challenges in a state's enforcement of the border, including the over-emphasis on stopping human migration and little-to-no emphasis on financial flows. Listen in as Terry talks about, among many other things, his efforts to stop cross-border money laundering.

In this episode, I sit with former DEA undercover agent Mike Vigil. We talk about his efforts in infiltrating Mexican cartels, his interactions with some of the most infamous narcotraficantes, whether a border wall might affect the flow of narcotics, and his thoughts on the future of the war against drugs, especially at the US-Mexico border.