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<div dir="ltr">Damon Tabor’s work has focused on conflict, drug trafficking, black markets, and the environment. His stories have appeared in <u><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/general-butt-naked-the-repentant-warlord" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The New Yorker</a></u>, <u><a href="https://harpers.org:2087/archive/2011/02/like-butterflies-in-the-jungle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Harper’s</a></u>, <u><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/putins-angels-inside-russias-most-infamous-motorcycle-club-56360/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rolling Stone</a></u>, <u><a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/weed-whackers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outside</a></u>, <u><a href="https://www.wired.com/author/damon-tabor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wired</a></u>, and <u><a href="https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/the-ivory-highway-20140213" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Men’s Journal</a></u>. His writing has been noted in Best American Travel Writing and his Rolling Stone article “Border of Madness” was the basis of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Cartel Land. Most recently, he produced <u><a href="https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-trade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Trade</a></u>, a five-part documentary about the opioid epidemic, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on Showtime. He holds a Master’s of Science from the Columbia Journalism School and is a recipient of a <u><a href="https://www.whiting.org/content/damon-tabor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant</a></u>. He is currently at work on a forthcoming book for Penguin Random House.</div>
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Damon Tabor

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Israeli Intelligence in Iran: Victim of Its Own Success

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<h6>Podcast Guest</h6>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of <a href="https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/ibremmer">Eurasia Group</a>, the leading geopolitical risk advisory firm, and <a href="https://www.gzeromedia.com/">GZERO Media</a>, a digital media company providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bremmer is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven books including “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310369/every-nation-for-itself-by-ian-bremmer/">Every Nation for Itself</a>: What Happens When No One Leads the World”, “The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?”, and “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561759/us-vs-them-by-ian-bremmer/">Us vs Them</a>: The Failure of Globalism.&#8221; Bremmer holds a master&#8217;s degree and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University and a bachelor&#8217;s degree in international relations from Tulane University. He currently teaches at <a href="https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/ian-bremmer">Columbia University&#8217;s School of International and Public Affairs</a> and previously was a professor at New York University. Ian is also a Senior Fellow at <a href="https://www.belfercenter.org/people/ian-bremmer">Harvard</a> Kennedy School&#8217;s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.</p>


Ian Bremmer

Podcast

Trump Will Hit Iran After the Midterms. It’s His Way Out | Ian Bremmer

<h6>Podcast Guest</h6>
<p>Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/people/karim-sadjadpour">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</a>, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. He regularly advises senior U.S., European, and Asian officials and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress as a witness for both Republican and Democratic leadership. He is also an advisor to the <a href="https://www.aspensecurityforum.org/sadjadpour-karim/">Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program</a> on the Middle East and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.</p>
<p>A contributing writer at <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/karim-sadjadpour/">The Atlantic,</a> as well as a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, his work has been recognized by Foreign Affairs as a “Best Essay” in both 2025 (for “<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/autumn-ayatollahs">The Autumn of the Ayatollahs</a>”) and 2024 (for his analysis of the ideological battle between Saudi Vision 2030 and Iran Vision 1979). In 2023, he received an Emmy Award as a Consulting Producer for the HBO documentary Hostages.</p>


Karim Sadjadpour

Who Is Really Running Iran Now? (w/ Karim Sadjadpour)

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<h6>Podcast Guest</h6>
<p><a href="https://ianburuma.wordpress.com/">Ian Buruma</a> is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College and former editor of the <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ian-buruma/">New York Review of Books</a>. His work largely focuses on the culture of Japan and China, but he has written extensively on European affairs, film, and many other subjects.</p>
<p>Buruma is the author of many books including <em>A Tokyo Romance, The Churchill Complex, The Wages of Guilt, </em>and<em> Year Zero: A History of 1945. </em>Buruma’s journalism can be found in <em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/opinion/japan-south-korea-history-tensions.html">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-war-ii-end-1945_b_7215116">The New York Review of Books</a>, <a href="https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article161213827/Grosse-Maenner-fuehren-irgendwann-grosse-Kriege.html?cid=onsite.onsitesearch">The New Yorker</a>, Harpers, The Guardian</em>, the <em>TLS</em>, <em>NRC Handelsblad</em>, as well as other publications all over the world.</p>


Ian Buruma

Japan Is Rearming. Will It Build the Bomb? (w/ Ian Buruma)


<h6>Podcast Guest</h6>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/mohamed-el-erian/">Mohamed El-Erian</a> is a renowned economist, chair of the board of the Center for Global Development, and the René M. Kern Practice Professor of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Born in New York, his father was an Egyptian diplomat, and he spent part of his childhood in France while his father was ambassador there. He began his career with 15 years at the International Monetary Fund, where he became a deputy director. From 2012 to 2017 he chaired President Obama&#8217;s Global Development Council. He later served as president of Queens&#8217; College, Cambridge, which he has called the most satisfying job of his career.</p>
<p>He is the author of When Markets Collide, which won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award, and The Only Game in Town. He co-wrote Permacrisis with Gordon Brown and Michael Spence. He writes columns for Bloomberg and the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy named him one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers four years in a row. </p>


Mohamed El-Erian

Mohamed El-Erian: America Is Exporting Its Debt Crisis

Why the US Can’t Win Against Iran: Drones and AI Are Changing War

Is Iran Secretly Building a Bomb at Pickaxe Mountain? A Nuclear Physicist Answers (w/ Ali Vaez)