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In the Room with Peter Bergen

By: Peter L. Bergen
Narrated by: Peter L. Bergen
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  • Episode 32: Could Prosecuting the Former President be Bad for American Democracy?

    Episode 32: Could Prosecuting the Former President be Bad for American Democracy?
    Nov 28 2023

    Some countries have fallen into a toxic cycle of tit-for-tat prosecutions, where every ex-president has to expect they’ll eventually end up behind bars. Could the U.S. be next? Two constitutional experts warn that some of the criminal cases against Donald Trump could cause cycles of retribution that poison our politics. And why our saving grace just might be — get this — government bureaucracy.
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    34 mins
  • Episode 31: Is Israel Prepared for this Ground War?

    Episode 31: Is Israel Prepared for this Ground War?
    Nov 14 2023

    Experts on urban and underground warfare explain why an aerial campaign alone can’t defeat Hamas, what the shortcomings are of the Israeli Defense Force, and how long, complicated, and tragic this war will be.
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    28 mins
  • Episode 30: Turning Bad News into a Great Read

    Episode 30: Turning Bad News into a Great Read
    Nov 7 2023

    How do two of America's leading nonfiction writers turn some of the biggest issues affecting us into juicy narratives that change hearts and minds — and maybe even policies? Patrick Radden Keefe on how he rendered the opioid crisis as a dramatic tale of money, power, and human suffering in his book Empire of Pain, and Elizabeth Kolbert on how she illuminates what we are losing as global temperatures rise, as in her most recent book, Under a White Sky.
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    43 mins

About the Host

Peter has been chasing great stories around the globe for his entire career. Notably, in 1997 he was the producer of Osama bin Laden’s first American television interview, in a hideout in Tora Bora, and has traveled to Afghanistan many times since then to cover Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the US military intervention. He is currently CNN’s national security analyst, a documentary producer, a think-tank executive at New America, a professor at Arizona State University, and the author or editor of ten books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers and four of which were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post. You can read more about him at https://peterbergen.com/biography/.

Alison Craiglow
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Alison Craiglow

About the Executive Producer

Alison Craiglow is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and editorial leader with decades of experience in network television news, documentary film, public radio, digital media, and podcasting. Most recently, she spent seven years at Freakonomics Radio, where, as executive producer, she oversaw all editorial, business, and operational aspects of the organization and led its evolution from a single preeminent podcast and public-radio show to a network of multiple high-quality shows, with 160 million total downloads annually. She graduated cum laude with a BA in History from Barnard College of Columbia University, where she was publisher of The Columbia Daily Spectator.

About the Team

Technical Director: Katie McMurran has over 10 years of experience as an audio engineer and sound designer in radio and podcasts, most recently at KQED in San Francisco where she worked on everything from live breaking news to long-form documentaries. Her sound design has been heard on podcasts created for Wondery, iHeart Radio, Vox and the BBC. She has a BA in Music from UC Berkeley and a BFA in Music Technology from CalArts and is a classically trained pianist.
Senior Editor: Alexandra Salomon was most recently the senior editor of podcasts at WBEZ in Chicago, where she helped pilot new projects and managed all aspects of production for the award-winning Curious City podcast. She was also the reporter and editor for the investigative podcast Motive Season 2, which examined allegations of sexual assault during study abroad in Spain. For eight years prior, she was the senior producer for WBEZ’s Worldview, a daily global affairs program. Earlier in her career she was a producer for ABC News based in Rome, Italy. In Europe she also reported for The Boston Globe, The Jerusalem Post, and The Economist. Alexandra is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University. She’s currently an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where she teaches a course on podcasting.
Senior Producer: Erik German has produced and written documentaries for Frontline, The New York Times, and was a long-time senior producer at Retro Report. He has covered major stories around the globe for both print and TV, spent time as a foreign correspondent in Brazil and an investigative reporter in New York, and early in his career was a reporter for The Prague Post. He is a graduate of Yale University where he majored in Philosophy and has a master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Producer: Laura Tillman is a print and audio journalist, and the author of two nonfiction books: The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García (W.W. Norton, 2023) and The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City (Scribner, 2016). She has produced narrative audio stories for Duolingo and Who Is? and her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Los Angeles Times. Laura has a BA in International Studies from Vassar College and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Goucher College, where she also teaches a class on the fundamentals of narrative nonfiction.
Associate Producer: Luke Cregan comes to our show from The Christian Science Monitor, where he wrote features and produced a daily news podcast. He graduated from Columbia University with a BA in History and Linguistics, and has two master’s degrees—one in History from Oxford University and one from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Associate Producer: Holly DeMuth comes to us from a fellowship at The Intercept, where she did editorial and clip research for podcasts, reported elements of long-form narrative investigations, completed a rigorous fact-checking training program, and worked on social media. She has a BA in Justice Studies from Arizona State University and an MA from the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Production Coordinator: Sandy Melara, has previous experience as a project coordinator for a production company (Broadway Video) that delivered eight original scripted audio projects for Audible. She has also worked as an office assistant for a film production company, a content team coordinator at Peloton, and in the exclusive Page program at NBCUniversal where she was assigned to Saturday Night Live. She has a BA in Corporate Communications from Baruch College.

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Riveting new podcast

I've just listened to the first three episodes and they were riveting. This is a really informative and beautifully produced podcast that gets to the heart of complex international issues. Can't wait for more episodes.

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Love this podcast

This is my new favorite podcast. I love the mix of interviews and clips; it’s serious and entertaining in the vein of a 60 minutes or old Frontline. The topics fill a void I don’t hear in any other media. Can’t wait for more episodes!

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Fascinating!

What a well produced story: many different angles and over a wide span of time. Thoroughly enjoyed it

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great show

packed full of important information. thanks for helping to get this info out there

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and Biden?

Two tier justice system in the US. its a good future topic to explore .

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Hit Piece

Keep your opinions out of journalism and let the listener make their own conclusions. You constantly interrupted the pod in the name of fact checking, when most of the "fact checking" was just you inserting your opinion without the chance for RFK to clarify or refute the point. Pathetic journalism.

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This is for the episode on Havana Syndrome

Episode emphasizes psychosomatic explanations for Havana syndrome which is incorrect. there was no explanation of new technologies of warfare which could include psyops. it's much more likely that the US Military is hiding security breaches in their experiments.

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Excellent analysis

A very informative and enjoyable listen for those interested in topics related to national security and global affairs.
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Fascinating

Interesting, insightful, and well researched! Number one podcast for a nice walk. Never a bad episode.

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