In the Room with Peter Bergen

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Overwhelmed by conflicting narratives and sensationalism in the news? Wondering where you can get an objective analysis and direct-from-the-source reporting?Look no further than In the Room with Peter Bergen. In a weekly nonpartisan news podcast, longtime national security journalist and bestselling author Peter Bergen goes beyond the headlines, to explore the world’s most important and captivating stories.Each week, listeners are invited to join Peter as he covers a news topic like war, artificial intelligence, UFOs, and more, including a rare peek inside the FBI's unit that is trying to prevent mass shootings. Balancing various perspectives on the subject, he combines narrative-rich storytelling and interviews with top experts and leaders like former Acting US Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, US Army General David Petraeus, Jen Easterly who leads US efforts to prevent cyberattacks, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, first-ever female Afghan ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani, and CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward.Listeners go “in the room” with Peter as he presses his contacts for accurate, on-the-ground information to help his listeners contextualize and understand the impact of these stories on their lives through a quality, trustworthy, and engaging lens.Get the real story from the people who are there as it unfolds with In the Room with Peter Bergen.Go to Audible.com/news where you’ll find Peter Bergen's recommendations for other news, journalism, and nonfiction listening.

Episode Date
The Future of In the Room
Mar 04, 2025
Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?
Jan 28, 2025
How the CIA got into the Venture Capital Game
Jan 21, 2025
What Can You Expect From President Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Jan 14, 2025
Trump Wants a Loyal FBI and Justice Department. Here’s How He Plans to Get it.
Jan 07, 2025
Was Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Actually a Success?
Dec 31, 2024
Being a Spy Can Be Pretty Stressful. The CIA is Trying to Help. (Rebroadcast)
Dec 24, 2024
How Do You End An Endless War?
Dec 17, 2024
Snatching Mega-Yachts and Blacklisting Banks: Do Sanctions Actually Work?
Dec 10, 2024
Defund or Unleash: What does effective policing look like?
Dec 03, 2024
The FBI’s Love Affair with Hollywood
Nov 26, 2024
What is “National Security” Anyway?
Nov 19, 2024
The Alt-Right Was Once Just on the Fringes. Here’s How it Went Mainstream.
Nov 12, 2024
How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency (REBROADCAST)
Nov 05, 2024
In One Michigan County There’s a Republican Fighting to Restore Faith in Elections
Oct 29, 2024
The Mass Shooting that Everyone Saw Coming
Oct 22, 2024
Can Exposing American Secrets Make You Safer?
Oct 15, 2024
There’s a Conspiracy Theory for Just About Everything, So Should You Be Worried?
Oct 08, 2024
Revisiting the First MAGA President
Oct 01, 2024
How Modern Autocrats Keep Each Other in Power
Sep 24, 2024
The General Who Told Trump What He Didn’t Want to Hear
Sep 17, 2024
On the Trail and Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden (Rebroadcast)
Sep 10, 2024
The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies
Sep 03, 2024
How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? (Rebroadcast)
Aug 27, 2024
Why Anti-Democratic Populists Keep Winning Elections
Aug 20, 2024
Don’t Miss These Upcoming Episodes of In The Room
Aug 13, 2024
Chicago Prepares for Protests at the DNC, Hoping To Forget 1968
Aug 12, 2024
Does the Pentagon (or the Cops) Know What Side of the Bed You Sleep On?
Jul 09, 2024
How Tiny Qatar Became a Global Player
Jul 02, 2024
The One Way Out of an Israeli-Palestinian Forever War
Jun 25, 2024
The Rise, and Maybe Downfall, of Liberal Democracy
Jun 18, 2024
The Right-Wing Plan for Trump to Root Out the “Deep State Department”
Jun 11, 2024
How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency
Jun 04, 2024
India’s Modi Will (Likely) Get the Most Votes in Human History. Why?
May 28, 2024
The Man Who Led NATO Is Trying to Frighten You
May 21, 2024
The View From a Newsroom in the Middle East
May 14, 2024
1-on-1 with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (9/26/23 Rebroadcast)
May 07, 2024
Is America Headed into a New Cold War?
Apr 30, 2024
What Happened When the Migrant Crisis Came to Chicago?
Apr 23, 2024
Where Did the Migrant Crisis Come From?
Apr 16, 2024
What UFO Conspiracies Have to Do with Jan. 6th
Apr 09, 2024
Counterterrorism Chief Says Hamas Attack and Gaza War Have Reshaped Terror Threat
Apr 02, 2024
Can the U.S. Just Pull Out of the Middle East?
Mar 26, 2024
How Does the US Government Get Detained Americans Home?
Mar 19, 2024
A Friendly Warning for America
Mar 12, 2024
You Should Worry About A.I., But Not For The Reason You Think
Mar 05, 2024
Did Oppenheimer’s Atomic Bomb Make the World Safer?
Feb 27, 2024
China is Stalking its Dissidents — Even on U.S. Soil
Feb 20, 2024
Why America’s Biggest Terror Threat Is Homegrown
Feb 13, 2024
Hunting the Bidens
Feb 06, 2024
Being a Spy Can Be Pretty Stressful. The CIA is Trying to Help.
Jan 30, 2024
Is The Pentagon Really Hiding Crashed Alien Spaceships?
Jan 23, 2024
As the Arctic Ice Melts, Could a New Kind of Cold War Be Coming?
Jan 16, 2024
Yes, the United States has a Space Force. Stop Laughing.
Jan 09, 2024
The Americans Who Would Be on the Frontline of a War in the Pacific
Dec 19, 2023
Who Controls America’s Past?
Dec 12, 2023
How to Beat the Russian Army
Dec 05, 2023
Could Prosecuting the Former President be Bad for American Democracy?
Nov 28, 2023
Is Israel Prepared for this Ground War?
Nov 14, 2023
Turning Bad News into a Great Read
Nov 07, 2023
A General and a Military Historian Say Israel-Hamas War is Most Challenging Conflict Since 1945
Oct 31, 2023
Can the Next Mass Shooting Be Prevented?
Oct 27, 2023
How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work?
Oct 24, 2023
You Should Worry About A.I., but Not for the Reason You Think
Oct 17, 2023
The Future of War
Oct 10, 2023
The War that Americans Forgot, Iraqis Can’t — and Iran Won
Oct 03, 2023
1-on-1 with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Sep 26, 2023
How Hackers Stole Half of Americans’ Private Information - and Why
Sep 19, 2023
Lessons From the Man Who Got bin Laden
Sep 12, 2023
On the Trail and Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden
Sep 05, 2023
China, Critical Minerals, and the National Security Threat in Your iPhone
Aug 29, 2023
How Did a 60-Year Old American Veteran Wind Up Fighting in Ukraine?
Aug 22, 2023
What if There Were a 9/11 Commission for Covid?
Aug 15, 2023
How Was Afghanistan Lost to the Taliban - Again? Ep. 2
Aug 08, 2023
How Was Afghanistan Lost to the Taliban - Again? Ep. 1
Aug 01, 2023
What Would a Second Trump Presidency Mean for the World?
Jul 25, 2023
What Makes a Great Authentic Spy Novel?
Jul 18, 2023
Can the Fentanyl Epidemic Be Stopped?
Jul 11, 2023
Michael Flynn’s New War
Jul 04, 2023
What on Earth Happened to Lieutenant General Michael Flynn?
Jun 27, 2023
Does Anything Scare War Correspondent Clarissa Ward?
Jun 20, 2023
Decoding Trump's Classified-Documents Indictment
Jun 16, 2023
Who Is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—and What Does He Want?
Jun 13, 2023
Stop Keeping Your Password on a Sticky Underneath Your Keyboard
Jun 06, 2023
What Should the U.S. Do About Havana Syndrome?
May 30, 2023
The CIA's Secret Museum
May 23, 2023
Can You Trust the Pentagon About UFOs?
May 16, 2023
What Keeps General David Petraeus Up at Night?
May 16, 2023
Will Vladimir Putin Get Away with War Crimes?
May 16, 2023
Trailer
May 01, 2023