Matt Duss

Matt Duss the President, Foundation for Middle East Peace, explains how President Obama’s foreign policy views going back to his first run for President led to the diplomatic breakthrough with Iran. What was the actual nature of Iran’s nuclear program? The Bush Administration and the expansion of...
Micah Uetricht, the Web Editor of In These Times explains Rahm Emanuel getting forced into a runoff in the Chicago Mayoral race matters. The progressive politics of Rahm’s opponent Chuy Garcia. The Chicago Teachers Union strike and the movement against Emanuel. Community activism and the response...
Journalist Charlie Pierce explains his family history and the immigrant experience, the humanitarian crisis at the US Mexico border, how our policies in Central America helped create a culture of violence, Republican Affordable Care Act delusions, the state of Netroots and Elizabeth Warren’s atta...
Matt Duss of the Center For American Progress explains the roots of Iraq’s current crisis, why the surge and the Sunni awakening did not create a new political culture in Iraq, how Iraq’s Sunni’s are repressed, how powerful is ISIS? Internal Sunni divisions in Iraq, why the Kurds are succeeding, ...
Matt Duss of the Center for American Progress, explains how Hassan Rouhani won Iran’s last presidential election, why Iran’s Supreme Leader is softening his hardline stance, Iran’s economic crisis, Obama’s strategic success with Iran, how Rouhani has shifted nuclear policy and Iran could be broug...
Matt Duss of the Center For American Progress: explained how Syria’s uprising turned into civil war, the refugee crises outside of Syria’s borders, the role of climate change and economic stagnation in the Arab uprisings, Syria’s strategic importance to Iran, Russia and America, what can airstrik...
Syria and latest on Middle East jockeying with National Security Network Executive Director Heather Hurlburt and Matt Duss, Director of Middle East Progress at Center for American Progress.   Why Turkey must get involved, Russia’s role and the region’s sectarian divide.  Also, talking serious env...