Geopolitics

Wars, coups, sanctions and the people who report on them from the ground. The show’s geopolitics episodes are long conversations with correspondents and operators rather than pundits.

Joby Warrick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter at The Washington Post, has come back to the show to cover Iran’s hardliners, the IRGC, Israel’s plan, Gaza, Jordan and the fall of Assad. Mariana van Zeller reports from the places most coverage skips: gold trafficking that funds terrorists in Niger, arms dealers selling to both sides, fighters passing through Damascus on the way to Iraq, North Korea. Ed Calderon brings Mexico into the picture as a security question for the United States, from talk of intervention to the drones he says are changing everything.