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Some say the usefulness of armored vehicles is waning on today’s battlefields, where nearly every movement can be targeted. Two U.S. Army commanders say the detractors are missing the point.
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Tanks vs. Drones
Some say the usefulness of armored vehicles is waning on today’s battlefields, where nearly every movement can be targeted. Two U.S. Army commanders say…
Aaron MacLean
59M
Brad Pitt Is Drinking Again
Suzy Weiss and Dan Ahdoot welcome him back to the bottle.
Suzy Weiss
38M
AOC’s Egg Freeze and Why You’re Not Having a Baby
Egg freezing, surrogacy, trad wives, declining birth rates—and why we’re not falling in love.
Rafaela Siewert
55M
Boris Johnson on Why Europe and America Still Need Each Other
The former British prime minister on what J.D. Vance gets right about Europe, why Putin must lose in Ukraine, and the myth of American decline.
Aaron MacLean
58M
Confessions of a Former DSA Organizer
Jake Altman spent nearly a decade inside the DSA. He explains the radical shift that drove him out and what its growing influence could mean for the…
Maya Sulkin
35M
Rep. Ro Khanna on Progressive Capitalism, Gaza, and 2028
The potential 2028 presidential candidate joins Coleman Hughes to argue that the Democratic Party’s future is pro-tech, economically nationalist, and…
Coleman Hughes
52M
Ted Cruz’s Plan to Bring Down Iran’s Regime—and Tucker Carlson
From Iran’s future to the civil war inside the American right, a conversation on regime change, the GOP’s identity crisis, and antisemitism as one of…
Aaron MacLean
31M
Jared Leto, Ariana Grande, and Naked Steakhouses
Plus: A ketamine-healed exec sues Netflix.
Suzy Weiss
44M
Why the Future of Education Won’t Come from the Ivy League
In his new book, Peter Berkowitz makes the case that liberal education isn’t dead yet, and that the path forward runs through new institutions, not old…
Eli Lake
1HR 1M
Former Democratic Operative Evan Barker Tells All
Evan shares her conversion from political insider to critic, why she decided to speak out, how her party changed, and what she thinks of the democratic…
Lucy Biggers
59M
Ukraine’s Top Drone Commander on What the Pentagon Keeps Missing
Yuri Fedorenko helped Ukraine transform commercial drones into one of the most effective weapons of the war. Here’s how he did it—and what the United…
Aaron MacLean
29M
Democrats Need to Ditch ‘Loser Politics,’ with Matthew Yglesias
The ‘Vox’ co-founder agrees with the DSA that the Democratic establishment must change. He just wants to actually win.
Coleman Hughes
1HR 19M
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