Deep-dive analyses distilled from reviewed podcast episodes.
Recorded September 8, 2026, two days after the Kremlin confirmed Putin's three-hours-ten-minutes meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and their onward leg to Kyiv, this Duran episode is a led…
Recorded the day after the Saxony-Anhalt state election, this Duran episode works one result into a verdict on the whole German system: the AfD outpolled even the most optimistic surveys with almost…
Recorded as US-Iran military operations restart, this Duran episode is organized around one chokepoint and one question: who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz?
Recorded three days after Ukraine's big drone strike toward Moscow failed to break through, this Duran episode is a war-economy broadcast built on one reading: the money and the missiles are running…
The Duran's two hosts return from the Bishkek SCO summit with one story told three ways: what happened in the room, who sent the pressure, and what it did to Russia's map of friends.
The Duran's two hosts read the week's Ukraine news as one connected machine.
Bond manager Ray Zucaro returns to The Duran the month the bond market finally got everyone's attention — co-host Alexander Mercouris opens with his tell: people who never think about markets are sud…
Jeffrey Sachs joins The Duran to read the whole Western moment through one frame: the powers that ran the world for two centuries no longer run it, and everything else — the Ukraine narrative, the Ir…
On the fourth consecutive day of Russian drone-and-missile strikes into Kiev, The Duran reads the campaign as a breaking point — for Ukraine's defenses, for the Zelensky government's own strategy, an…
In a short take, The Duran takes up Nikol Pashinyan's stated intention to take Armenia into the European Union — breaking from Russia and the CSTO security umbrella while shifting toward the West, Az…
