The Truth of the Matter

CSIS

4.3 (224)
GOVERNMENT
UPDATED WEEKLY

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

12/20/2024

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi on bipartisan efforts to counter China

This podcast episode of The Truth of the Matter features Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, ranking member of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The discussion covers bipartisan efforts to address U.S.-China competition in technology, economics, and national security, including TikTok's legal challenges, the risks of Chinese-made technology, and strategies to deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific.

16 min
12/18/2024

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company

Eva Dou, technology policy reporter at The Washington Post, joins the podcast to discuss her new book, House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company, as well as U.S. suspicion of the company and why it worries policymakers.

19 min
12/12/2024

Piecing Together What Happened in Syria

CSIS’s Norman Roule, who served for thirty-four years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing significant programs relating to the Middle East, joins the podcast to discuss the actors that enabled the Assad regime to survive for so long, how bureaucratic rot in Russia and Iran enabled Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to move south so quickly, and actions the U.S. can take to support peace in the region.

22 min
12/11/2024

Syria’s House of Cards

CSIS’s Natasha Hall joins the podcast to discuss the rot inside the Assad regime, the country’s new power center and the internal tensions that remain.

12 min
12/10/2024

Syria: Moment of Maximum Hope

CSIS’s Jon Alterman joins the podcast to discuss the dramatic developments in Syria, the external actors involved, and potential U.S. approaches.

23 min
12/02/2024

All About the Missiles

CSIS’s director of the Missile Defense Project Tom Karako joins the podcast to talk about missile escalations in the Ukraine Russia war, plus how missiles are critical to the conflicts in the Middle East.

20 min
11/21/2024

Energy Scramble: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in AI

Joseph Majkut, director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, joins the podcast to discuss the intersection of AI and energy policy, AI’s huge energy requirements, and how to finance infrastructure development to meet these energy needs. Watch CSIS’s recent event on the intersection of AI and energy policy here.

18 min
11/07/2024

Predicting AI Policy in the Second Trump Administration

In this episode, we discuss what AI policy might look like under the second Trump administration. We dive into the first Trump administration's achievements (0:50), how the Trump campaign handled AI policy (3:37), and where the new administration might fall on key issue areas like national security (5:59), safety (7:37), export controls (11:27), open-source (14:04), and more.

28 min

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224 Ratings

Love to listen but the sound mixing is an issue

11/03/2024

sappho1900

This show is a wonderful resource to keep myself up to date on what is often not flushed out in detail on the regular news programs. My only critique is that the audio is often a nuisance for its inconsistency; sometimes the music is way louder than the conversation that follows or precedes it; other times the audio of some guests is barely audible while others are loud in my ear. I would definitely listen more often if these common issues were corrected.
Wonderful show, Audio too low

10/27/2024

NYCnewshound

Great show great guests however, the audio is too low to be serviceable.
Insightful and fun

10/25/2023

kaifeng13

Fun, timely and in-depth discussion and analysis. Thank you, Andrew!
Pure Government Propaganda

08/31/2024

JennyGoestoCamp

Formerly interesting and quasi informative, but now just another mouthpiece for the Ministry of Propaganda.