This week on the show, David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, joins the show to discuss the tragic death of Putin’s opposition leader Alexey Navalny inside a Russian prison, Navalny’s legacy, and what this means for Putin’s Russia.
Then, former Prime Minister to Sweden, Carl Bildt, speaks with Fareed about Trump’s incendiary remarks about NATO and Europe ... Show More
Nov 23
The Epstein Scandal and the MAGA Base; What Happens When the A.I. Bubble Bursts?
Today on the show, Fareed is joined by Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor at The Atlantic, for a discussion on whether the Jeffrey Epstein scandal could finally rupture MAGA’s unwavering trust in President Donald Trump.Then, what happens to the economy when the A.I. bubble burst ... Show More
43m 9s
Nov 16
Bill Maher on the Democratic Party’s Future
Today on the show, the longest government shutdown in history finally ended this week. Fareed sits down with Bill Maher, comedian and host of HBO’s Real Time, for a wide-ranging conversation about the end of the shutdown, the future of the Democratic Party, whether he would vote ... Show More
42m 38s
Nov 9
Trump’s Tariffs at the Supreme Court
Today on the show, Fareed speaks with constitutional scholars Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, and John Yoo, a former Justice Department Official in the George W. Bush administration, about the challenge against President Trump’s sweeping tariffs in the Supreme Co ... Show More
43m 2s
Feb 2024
Breaking: Putin Kills Alexei Navalny
<p>Tommy and Ben discuss the breaking news that Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, has died while in prison. The only information available so far is coming from prison officials and Russian government-run news channels, who claim that Navalny collapsed. T ... Show More
50m 14s
May 2024
Hamas and Netanyahu Accused of War Crimes
<p>Ben and guest host Alyona Minkovski discuss the ICC’s application for arrest warrants against both Hamas and Netanyahu for war crimes, the mass exodus of civilians from Rafah, a US-Saudi pact supposedly being days away from being agreed to, and public rebukes against Netanyahu ... Show More
1h 20m
Feb 2024
Alexei Navalny: The death of Putin’s biggest critic
Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in an Arctic Circle jail, the prison service has said. What does that mean for the future of Russia, its opposition movement and its leader, Vladimir Putin? In this special episode of The Gl ... Show More
25m 17s
Feb 2021
What Alexei Navalny's arrest means for Vladimir Putin
On his return to Russia from Germany, where he'd been recuperating after being poisoned by a nerve agent, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested for criminal charges resurrected by the Kremlin from a years-old conviction. In the days since, peaceful protesters have ... Show More
34m 23s
Jan 2021
Why Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead
Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss the nationwide demonstrations in Russia in support of dissident opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who returned to the country this week from Germany, where he was recuperating from a poisoning believed to be an assassination attempt directed by the Kr ... Show More
46m 9s
Feb 2024
Who is left to oppose Putin now?
Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russia’s government, has died in a Russian prison, just months after he was placed in a high security cell in a remote Siberian penal colony. His allies, and his wife Yulia Navalnaya, blame President Vladimir Putin and say it was under ... Show More
15m 35s
May 2023
Defining Victory for Ukraine
<p>Ben and Tommy talk about Iran using Syrian earthquake aid to smuggle weapons, Syria being readmitted to the Arab League, the drone strikes on the Kremlin, Title 42 and Biden’s immigration policy, the arrest of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, gun control in Serbia, ... Show More
1h 23m
Dec 2022
Putin and Biden: Will they talk?
The BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, gives us her take on whether President Biden’s offer to talk may offer a moment for diplomacy, despite an apparent rebuff from Vladimir Putin. A former US marine who heads up the Mozart Group, an unarmed private military c ... Show More
29m 46s