The Truth of the Matter

A weekly analysis of the complex policy issues driving the news.

Episodes

Total: 312

Peter Bergen, Vice President at the New America Foundation, CNN national security analyst, and host

CSIS Senior Vice President and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center J. Stephen Morrison

CSIS’s Ryan Berg joins the podcast to discuss Nicolas Maduro’s claim that he won another term as Ven

Mpox Outbreak

2024/8/21

J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS Senior Vice President and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center

CSIS’s Seth Jones and Ambassador Eric Edelman, vice chair of the Commission on National Defense Stra

Unknown Mideast Redlines

2024/8/9

CSIS’ Norm Rule, who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing significant pr

Frank McCourt, chairman of McCourt Global and founder of Project Liberty, joins the podcast to discu

Livia Shmavonian, the Director of OMB’s Made in America Office, and Heather Boushey, Member of the C

CSIS’s Norman Roule, who served in the Central Intelligence Agency for over three decades, joins the

NATO Comes to Washington

2024/7/3

CSIS's Max Bergmann joins the podcast to discuss the main goals of the upcoming NATO summit in Washi

Stuart E. Eizenstat, who served as former White House adviser, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union

In a crossover episode with It's More Than Grit, a new podcast from CSIS, Linda Rottenberg, Co-found

Putin’s Play in NK

2024/6/21

CSIS’s Victor Cha joins the podcast to discuss Vladimir Putin’s visit to Pyongyang and why he believ

New York Times global economic correspondent Peter S. Goodman joins the podcast to discuss his new b

Reimagining the G7

2024/6/13

On the eve of the 50th G7 Summit in Apulia, Italy, CSIS’ Victor Cha joins the podcast to discuss a n

U.S. Representative Brad Schneider (D-Il), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee traveled

CSIS’s Mariana Campero, host of Mexico Matters and co-host of It’s More than Grit with Andrew Schwar

Arms Control Interregnum

2024/6/3

CSIS’s Heather Williams joins the podcast to discuss Russia’s nuclear provocations and to answer the

On the eve of Mexico’s historic presidential election, CSIS’s Ryan Berg joins the podcast to discuss

Face Off: US-China

2024/5/16

Former New York Times Beijing bureau chief Jane Perlez joins the show to discuss her new Harvard pod