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Trump Flips on Bibi, Putin, and Xi (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Listen now | 0:00 The week's major international stories 2:58 Trump's approach to everything 8:40 The Houthi deal 11:23 Trump's Middle East trip and…
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Robert Wright
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1:15:55
Is Trump breaking with Israel? | NonZero World feat. Jon Hoffman
Listen now | 0:00 Headlines 6:07 Is Trump breaking with Israel? 11:51 Making sense of the US-Houthi ceasefire 15:55 Will the US give Saudi Arabia…
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Connor Echols
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56:11
Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and Strange Orbs
Plus: Interplanetary oligarchy, controversial cloud seeding, Gaza escalation, legally dubious deportations, and more!
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Connor Echols
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Robert Wright
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Danny Fenster
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The case for alarm about artificial intelligence (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)
Listen now | 0:00 Holly’s newsletter and her work with PauseAI 3:21 The state of AI safety 10:30 Why Holly started PauseAI US 14:31 Is AI acceleration…
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Robert Wright
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1:37:15
Ask Bob Anything: Trump, Democracy, and Foreign Policy
Listen now | Ideas for improving NonZero. Weighing Trump's threat to democracy. Does Bob have a double standard in foreign policy? How federal workers…
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Robert Wright
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1:11:03
Sam Altman Indicted by ChatGPT
Busted for opportunistic China hawkism by his own large language model!
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Robert Wright
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The Biden-Trump Path to Global Ruin (Robert Wright & Matt Duss)
Listen now | 0:00 Which think tanks are anti-Blob? 2:12 What's the real goal of Bibi’s new Gaza “operation”? 6:58 Why can’t (or won’t) the US rein in…
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Robert Wright
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1:18:47
Trump Doubles Down on the Law of the Jungle | NonZero World feat. Robert Wright
Listen now | 0:00 Headlines 4:45 Bob joins to discuss Trump's first 100 days 6:25 What the Waltz firing means for Trump's foreign policy 12:02 Has Rubio…
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Connor Echols
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1:02:02
The Bot Onslaught Continues
Plus: Constitutional crisis fears, US-China conflict fears, Musk-Bezos competition, military spending jumps, North Korea comes clean, and more!
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Robert Wright
 and 
Connor Echols
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April 2025

Can Trump Make Peace in Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)
Listen now | 0:00 The state of play in Russia-Ukraine 3:38 Anatol: Here’s how the war could end 12:11 Which side wants peace more? 19:54 Why hasn’t…
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Robert Wright
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1:24:26
Pope Francis, Peacemaker or Appeaser? | NonZero World feat. Michael Brendan Dougherty
Listen now | 0:00 The new NonZero World 1:21 Headlines 4:36 Stories of the week 17:19 Michael Brendan Dougherty on Pope Francis' foreign policy legacy…
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Connor Echols
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1:11:43
Trump’s Speech Crackdown Makes a Quantum Leap
Plus: Job-stealing AI, Space Force gets offensive, papal foreign policy, the ‘holier-than-thou’ effect, a novel climate argument, and more!
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Robert Wright
 and 
Connor Echols
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