May 27, 2021
President Joe Biden has been busy with his overarching foreign policy aim of mending ties with America’s closest allies. Progress has been made during a series of summit meetings in Europe, but what are the underlying challenges ahead? We recorded two important conversations before the summits:...
Apr 29, 2021
“The most lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat to the homeland today.” That’s how US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has described domestic extremism. It’s a mounting threat to democracy and security in Europe, too, and elsewhere as hardline views enter the mainstream....
Jan 21, 2021
With the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president on Wednesday, work to restore America’s battered democratic institutions and its international role is beginning in earnest. The new co-directors of the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group Jonathan Katz and Jamie Fly join Susan and Greg to discuss what...
Dec 14, 2020
The rise of authoritarian kleptocrats around the world may be the main geopolitical issue of our time, and the threat to liberal democracy can’t be overstated. But although the assault on democratic institutions in the United States, Europe and elsewhere is on public display, most of us see only the tip of the...
Jul 16, 2020
Europeans have looked on in disbelief and dismay as America’s alliances with its most important transatlantic allies have come under attack by an isolationist president who sees personal political gain in undermining common liberal democratic values. But after the Black Lives Matters protests and with hopes...