Eric and Eliot welcome David Stahel, Senior Lecturer at the University South Wales, Canberra and author of a multivolume history of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and other works on World War II on the eastern front.

CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy Dr. Eliot A. Cohen and Mara Rudman, former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for the Obama and Clinton administrations, discuss what questions might remain for Israel and the region after a defeat of Hamas and implications of a wider regional conflict.

It’s the summer of 1964 and Lyndon Johnson has just signed the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. It was a continuation of the proposal of John F. Kennedy and LBJ found a way to make it happen, but when it came to the safety net Johnson’s vision encompassed far greater legislation. In this episode, we will pull apart the fine details of the Economic Opportunity Act, and hear some conversations that illustrate the tension and the steaks of creating some of the most revolutionary safety net programs of the 20th century. We’ll talk about why the war on poverty and programs like Community Action, Job Corps, and Head Start were so important to LBJ as a person and as president, we’ll talk about the compromises it took to create and pass this legislation, and we’ll explore the impact of programs like the Job Corps had on people like heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman.

Syaru Shirley Lin, Chair of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation, Research Professor at University of Virginia, reacts to Taiwan's presidential election results. She speaks with Yvonne Man on "Bloomberg Markets: China Open".

“This election means we’ll have a more divided people—and Beijing contributes to that divide.”

“There is no path for a third-party or minor-party candidate to become president of the United States—But you might get the ruling party, right now the Biden White House, to begin to have second thoughts about their views,” says the Miller Center’s Barbara Perry.