Eric S. Edelman

While Recep Erdoğan reaps the fruits of hosting a NATO summit, Turkish democracy pays the price.

Eric and Eliot catch up for the first time in a month after returning from overseas. They break down the latest jackassery, from Graham Platner's campaign implosion to

Eric welcomes back friend of the show Professor Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Eliot returns from his trip to western Canada to review the latest jackassery with Eric.

The agreement appears poised to upend Washington's decades-long nonproliferation strategy.

Eric begins with major show news before pivoting to the jackassery of the week with Eliot.

Eric and Eliot begin with reflections on recent domestic political developments and the “horseshoe theory” uniting political extremes around isolationism and anti-Israeli sentiment.

Eric and Eliot discuss the week's jackassery, including the administration's stripping former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall of his security clearance for innocuous comments about Trump's new Qatari-donated Air Force One.

Whatever the president’s motivation, he’s driving our allies to seek alternative security arrangements.

Eric and Eliot open their final show on the Bulwark with a plethora of jackassery including Trump's threat to bomb Oman, his curtailing of joint exercises with South Korea, and the Pentagon shuttering access to the Defense Technical Information Center.