The Long View with Jason Feinstein

This is the fourth and final part of a four part series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, argued through an American lens. This part lays out the plan, the terms and how they would be imposed, and the ways it could fall apart."

Chapters:

0:00 - The Terms

6:10 - Phase One: Locking It In

10:30 - Phase Two: The Reckoning

15:12 - Phase Three: The Exchange

19:17 - What Can Go Wrong

25:06 - It Comes Down to Will

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This is the third part of a four part series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, argued through an American lens. This part covers the outside players who make a settlement possible, and the spoilers who will try to break it.

Chapters:

0:00 - Setting the Stage

2:23- The Two Parties

7:30 - The Coalition

13:19 - The Co-optable Holdouts

21:11 - The Spoilers

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This is the second part of a four part series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, argued through an American lens. This part covers why the United States is involved in the region, and why resolving the conflict advances American interests."

Chapters:

0:00 - Why the United States is There

1:46 - Hegemony, Not Conquest

6:00 - Iran, and Pulling Back

11:02 - Does Israel Set American Policy

15:10 - The Prize

21:18 - The Two Costs, and the Four Options

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This is part one of a four part series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, argued through an American lens. This part covers the core reason the conflict persists, and why partition, a two-state solution, is the only path that resolves it.

Chapters:

0:00 - What This Is, and What It Isn’t

2:34 - Why the Moral Argument Fails

4:41 - Reality, Not Justice

8:14 - The Two Hinges

15:30 - Every Alternative Is a Dead End

19:15 - The Cost of Staying Stuck

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Our problems are solvable. The series' conclusion lays out the way through — and who has to carry it. The eighth episode in The Framework for America series.

Chapters:

0:00 - What Made Us Great

1:48 - Our Own Doing

4:07 - A Commitment and a Method

5:28 - Whether We Will

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American healthcare is a train wreck and needs real reform. This is part two of a two part examination of the problem and some potential solutions. The seventh episode in The Framework for America series.

Chapters:

00:00 - The Principle

2:48 - Drug Pricing

6:19 - Hospital Antitrust

8:25 - Expanding Supply

9:33 - The Middlemen and the Paperwork

12:09 - What about the Insurance Companies

14:25 - What This Saves

22:16 - Who Fights For It

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American healthcare is a train wreck and needs real reform. This is part one of a two part examination of the problem and some potential solutions. The sixth episode in The Framework for America series.

Chapters:

0:00 - The $25,000 Family

3:07 - Three Times, Three Defeats

7:40 - Cost is the Master Variable

14:26 - Why It’s Expensive: A Regulated Cartel

22:15 - Why Consumer-Choice Fails

25:02 - Why Single-Payer Won’t Pass

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The American immigration system is broken, fertility is below replacement, and the two problems are headed straight at each other. An integrated framework for fixing both. The fifth episode in The Framework for America series.

Chapters:

0:00 - Two Truths on a Collision Course

1:18 - The Integrated Response

5:29 - Japan and Korea

6:42 - The Broken System

8:56 - The Conditions-Based Alternative

14:24 - The Existing Population and Enforcement

17:27 - Family Formation

22:21 - Housing and the Closed Loop

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$39 trillion in debt. 127% of GDP. We now spend more on interest than on the Pentagon. The single largest long-term threat to the United States — and the one nobody wants to talk about. The fourth episode in The Framework for America series.

Chapters:

00:00 - The $39 Trillion Trap: Debt vs. Defense

02:01 - How the Debt Spiral Actually Works

03:37 - Why the Next Crisis Will Be Worse

06:00 - The Two Endgames: Inflation or Default

08:08 - History’s Warning: Empires That Went Bust

11:02 - The Reserve Currency Counterargument

15:20 - The 2% Solution

17:23 - The Fraud Problem

19:00 - Hard Choices & “AI Will Save Us”

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The right strategy on how the United States should engage with the world. The third episode in The Framework for America series.

Chapters:

0:00 - Why we cannot retreat

3:06 - Strategic, Operational, Tactical

4:51 - Realism and Democratic Morality

7:03 - The Four Regions and the Balance of Power

10:44 - The Commons, Democracy, and the Tradition

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