# The Truth of the Matter A podcast by CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies. A weekly analysis of the complex policy issues driving the news. Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CSIS2465378607 ## Latest episodes - [AI Competition and Security: A discussion with Kemba Walden and Devin Lynch](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/7cc1bcfa8d98) (2025-07-10, 32 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9849306943.mp3?updated=1752159148 - [Keeping Our Beaches Clean with the Surfrider Foundation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/e9b2a5302ac8) (2025-07-03, 17 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS1806953162.mp3?updated=1751570634 - [NATO’s “Brain-Dead” Summit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/f2ba2bbcac07) (2025-06-30, 25 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9382858982.mp3?updated=1751313984 - [Did U.S. Strikes Prevent an Iranian Bomb—or Provoke One?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/d26dee6dc147) (2025-06-30, 23 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7618217156.mp3?updated=1751312892 - [Is Ideology Blinding Iran to Reality?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/f55d076e3df6) (2025-06-26, 29 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8095265789.mp3?updated=1750952862 - [Emergency Podcast: How Degraded is Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Program?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/a35f9f06af21) (2025-06-25, 14 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2137204727.mp3?updated=1750890183 - [12-Day War: Now What?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/91d98f41c9d1) (2025-06-24, 26 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS5198638624.mp3?updated=1750797069 - [Emergency Podcast: Iran Strikes Back](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/ab3662dceb74) (2025-06-23, 16 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8801144516.mp3?updated=1750715149 - [Google's Gopi Kallayil on the AI Revolution](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/4843153925a9) (2025-06-20, 48 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6937577570.mp3?updated=1750428493 - [How Might Iran Conflict End?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/8f7c7566015f) (2025-06-20, 30 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS3859335865.mp3?updated=1750429619 - [Israel’s Strategic Objectives and the Future of Warfare](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/740a4cd54c14) (2025-06-18, 24 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7094417530.mp3?updated=1750280560 - [Israel-Iran: Is Time Running Out?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/1fcc108fadf0) (2025-06-17, 19 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS1874929698.mp3?updated=1750175351 - [Emergency Podcast: Israeli Strike on Iran](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/7f34734ad2c3) (2025-06-13, 31 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS1335424989.mp3?updated=1749843355 - [Can We Share Spectrum?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/be2ac0dece78) (2025-06-09, 14 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8062584125.mp3?updated=1749489381 - [What is the End Point of U.S.-China Competition?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/3142e1c0041c) (2025-06-03, 27 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7488960834.mp3?updated=1749042720 - [Russia’s Battlefield Woes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/ccb9ede7d165) (2025-05-29, 18 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS1286242230.mp3?updated=1748553098 - [The Golden Dome and the New Missile Age](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/043c77393e2a) (2025-05-15, 21 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS3995299462.mp3?updated=1747343349 - [Trump’s Middle East Minerals Deal](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/ff3508a7de1a) (2025-05-15, 17 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS5217379828.mp3?updated=1747333550 - [Emergency Podcast: U.S.-China Tariff Pause](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/34024da75466) (2025-05-14, 28 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6710402875.mp3?updated=1747163852 - [Analyzing Missile Attacks in Ukraine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/dcc65a234cac) (2025-05-09, 32 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7612099544.mp3?updated=1746815381 - [Trump and the Australian Elections](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/a464dd9e4ee2) (2025-05-07, 21 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7878744900.mp3?updated=1746815402 - [A Drone and Ground View From Ukraine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/04f7c73b3a32) (2025-05-02, 20 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS4906384115.mp3?updated=1746203463 - [Debt Matters](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/338c3b0bd5bb) (2025-05-01, 32 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9559885450.mp3?updated=1746116015 - [Trump’s Panama Canal Policy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/e67a3f8ddfa4) (2025-04-29, 19 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9367234949.mp3?updated=1745965956 - [Can Policy Win the AI Race?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/e45f1f3023c4) (2025-04-24, 22 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS5349392120.mp3?updated=1745505791 - [China Weathers the Storm of U.S. Tariffs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/fb437960702e) (2025-04-17, 19 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6109829987.mp3?updated=1744913579 - [Auto Tariffs Threaten to Drive Up Prices](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/2c630cd75933) (2025-04-15, 24 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2118681640.mp3?updated=1744751668 - [China’s Halt of Critical Minerals](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/c63051c98452) (2025-04-15, 21 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS3207588137.mp3?updated=1744728551 - [Rep. Bryan Steil on STABLE Act](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/109887a59d1b) (2025-04-11, 23 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6398305051.mp3?updated=1744389749 - [Liberation Day Fallout and What Comes Next](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/02e2cc61549d) (2025-04-08, 31 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6509116999.mp3?updated=1744150358 - [Mark Penn Polls and the Future of News](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/50d826813a7c) (2025-04-07, 23 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7052052022.mp3?updated=1744046946 - [South Korea’s Quiet Crisis and Trade with the U.S.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/fc81b37cf1a3) (2025-04-04, 8 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS4016897220.mp3?updated=1743794025 - [Reciprocal Tariff Reactions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/e8ed99ad35cf) (2025-04-03, 25 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2990081478.mp3?updated=1743794017 - [Brief: Trump's Tariff Plan](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/864d31337a5e) (2025-04-03, 12 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS5017653813.mp3?updated=1743711967 - [Drones and AI on the Ukrainian Battlefield](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/ca930c57c933) (2025-04-02, 18 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6044492891.mp3?updated=1743615283 - [Brief: What to Expect from Tariffs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/58756537f636) (2025-03-31, 6 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2595349855.mp3?updated=1743452513 - [China Cracks Down on Journalism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/5faf667bb950) (2025-03-27, 20 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8824506783.mp3?updated=1743104407 - [Hidden Depths: Water as a Resource and a Weapon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/c9ac7f4d1f3b) (2025-03-25, 25 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9688455320.mp3?updated=1742934664 - [Russia's Shadow War Against the West](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/b4fa9fa18b24) (2025-03-21, 20 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6800398524.mp3?updated=1742592879 - [Trump’s Muscular Middle East Policy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/109d2a1f1f2f) (2025-03-19, 25 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9289995096.mp3?updated=1742492413 - [Securing Full Stack U.S. Leadership in AI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/5c5f3635a85f) (2025-03-17, 22 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS6054663253.mp3?updated=1742327632 - [Measles Outbreak Implications](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/18cc7aa99afa) (2025-03-12, 24 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9736829763.mp3?updated=1741896265 - [European Divorce](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/4969ed958fd8) (2025-03-11, 27 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS4825372278.mp3?updated=1741722147 - [Intelligence and Subversion in Ukraine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/d779ba23f872) (2025-03-07, 22 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS9616354555.mp3?updated=1741371594 - [Stepping Up on Spectrum](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/b0dcfff8d950) (2025-03-04, 20 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8258616539.mp3?updated=1741114829 - [Transatlantic Tensions at the Munich Security Conference](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/5da69822900c) (2025-02-26, 29 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS4265547279.mp3?updated=1740601665 - [Ukraine Minerals Deal Explained](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/1751dede76f6) (2025-02-26, 15 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7694053645.mp3?updated=1740522995 - [Protecting the Backbone of the Internet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/454e25070182) (2025-02-24, 23 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2973936829.mp3?updated=1740421197 - [Tumultuous Times in Europe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/6da9e293bc55) (2025-02-20, 34 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS7589537068.mp3?updated=1740087095 - [Responding to the LA Wildfires](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950/390b751f2297) (2025-02-12, 22 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS4116346749.mp3?updated=1739461356 Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. 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