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Nov 16, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Susan Shirk
- Susan’s new book, Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
- China’s turn to more assertive policies in 2007
- The well-intentioned reform that produced big authoritarian consequences
- How public opinion influences autocratic leaders
- Xi Jinping’s purge of suspect officials
- Does Beijing feel threatened by America?
- Heading to Overtime
Nov 14, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias
- Will Israel-Palestine cost Biden the election?
- What Hamas hoped to accomplish on October 7
- The surprising origins of cancel culture
- Matt defends his ratioed tweet
- The persistent psychological impact of the Holocaust
- Is a one-state solution realistic?
- What Ukrainians and Palestinians have in common
- Anti-Palestine sentiment and Christian Zionism in America
- How the current crisis could lead to war with Iran
- Bob gives Matt podcasting advice
Nov 7, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas
- Ron’s initial reaction to the October 7 atrocities
- How Israel’s far right undermined Israel’s national security
- Support for the Gaza war in Israel
- The trouble with “eradicating” Hamas
- How American Jews are responding to recent events
- Post-October-7 prospects for solving Israel-Palestine
- The rhetorical abuse of the Holocaust
- The origins and meaning of “From the river to the sea…”
- Could the Gaza war cost Biden the election?
- Competing visions of Zionism
- How terrorism impacts the Palestinian cause
Nov 3, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Joshua Landis
- What Iran hopes to gain from the Israel-Hamas war
- Did Hamas expect such a massive retaliation from Israel?
- Why Israel’s campaign in Gaza could backfire
- What Hezbollah is and how it got started
- Does Israel have an exit strategy in Gaza?
- Why the Arab world might unite in the years ahead
- How China could benefit from the current crisis
- Why the US hasn’t pushed harder to resolve Israel-Palestine
- Is a one-state solution the best path forward?
- Can the Israeli government rein in West Bank settlers?
- How Israel-Palestine damages America’s, and Biden’s, credibility
Oct 31, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Seidemann
- The significance of Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Will the current crisis explode into a wider war?
- Israel’s ultra-nationalist minister of national security
- Settler attacks intensify in the West Bank
- The two-state solution is dead—can it be revived?
- Has Israel lost the support of western young people?
- What Hamas hoped to accomplish on October 7
- How hopelessness drives support for Hamas
- Can one-state aspirations produce a two-state solution?
Oct 27, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin
- Why Leonid considers his nationality “journalist”
- How the West alienated Russia
- Are Russia’s pro-Ukraine “liberals” actually far right?
- How Putin is responding to Israel’s war on Hamas
- Are western experts more clear-minded about Israel-Hamas than Russia-Ukraine?
- Is Ukraine at risk of losing significant amounts of territory?
- Heading to Overtime
Oct 27, 2023 —
Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher
- How much of an election denier is Mike Johnson?
- Why did the GOP moderates accept Johnson?
- Did Democrats do themselves good by trading McCarthy for Johnson?
- Matt learns to love John Fetterman
- The absence of a Republican primary, and its impact
- Who will drop out before Iowa?
- Will Dean Phillips matter?
Oct 24, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Eli Lake
- Why hasn’t the ground invasion happened yet?
- Do conditions in Gaza make terrorism more likely?
- Palestinian violence compared to Israeli violence
- Did Israel really offer the Palestinians a state two decades ago?
- Does Hamas have much support in the West?
- What should be done about Hamas?
- Israel’s blockade of Gaza and strategy of massive retaliation
- Indignities suffered by Palestinians in the West Bank
- Should West Bank Palestinians focus on demanding the vote?
- Eli’s growing interest in the deep state
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