The San Francisco Experience

Turkey has adroitly maneuvered between the warring parties of Ukraine and Russia during the current conflict.  But Turkey clearly wants Ukraine to win and has supplied drones and other materiel to its' neighbor. At the same time it is trying to broker a peace deal between the warring parties. Rich Outzen walks us through Turkey's grand strategy.

North Korea is a hereditary, dynastic dictatorship, under the control of the Kim family for 77 years. Kim Jong Un is the third member of the family to rule this impoverished, Stalinist nation of 22 million people.

China has been building its' diplomatic, economic and security ties with the island nations of the South Pacific: It recently signed a security pact with the strategic Solomon Islands. The United States is concerned and is trying to re-engage after years of neglect. We are reopening our embassy in the Solomon Islands that we closed in 1993 and opening new embassies in Tonga and Kiribati.

Peter Singer is a strategist and senior fellow with New America, a think tank in Washington. He is also the founder and managing partner of Useful Fiction which creates fictional narratives to help policy makers visualize some of the most complex national security threats like nuclear accidents, bio terrorism, artificial intelligence and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Visualizing before an event can lead to more effective policies to thwart such attacks.

Will Putin use the pretext of protecting the Russian speaking minorities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to attack them as he did in the Donbas Region of Ukraine ? Such a move would trigger Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, provoking a unified NATO response. Or would it ?

The 1968 film Bullitt starred Steve McQueen at the peak of his acting career and features the iconic car chase up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco. McQueen gives a nuanced performance and still engages audiences 54 years since the film debuted.

School leadership is key to ensuring that black and brown students in particular get a good education. Decoteau Irby recounts a five year project where he led a project to improve racial equity in a school that saw black and brown students increase from 8% of the student body to 30%. 

The unsealed warrant which was used to search his residence and resulted in 10 boxes of documents being taken away by the FBI,  indicates that the former President is being investigated under the Espionage Act. 

In today's episode Alex Domash gives us an overview of the Fed's fight against inflation and the prospects of a recession in the next 12 to 24 months.