89 Episodes

  1. The Future of In the Room

    Published: 3/4/2025

  2. Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?

    Published: 1/28/2025

  3. How the CIA got into the Venture Capital Game

    Published: 1/21/2025

  4. What Can You Expect From President Trump’s Foreign Policy?

    Published: 1/14/2025

  5. Trump Wants a Loyal FBI and Justice Department. Here’s How He Plans to Get it.

    Published: 1/7/2025

  6. Was Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Actually a Success?

    Published: 12/31/2024

  7. Being a Spy Can Be Pretty Stressful. The CIA is Trying to Help. (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 12/24/2024

  8. How Do You End An Endless War?

    Published: 12/17/2024

  9. Snatching Mega-Yachts and Blacklisting Banks: Do Sanctions Actually Work?

    Published: 12/10/2024

  10. Defund or Unleash: What does effective policing look like?

    Published: 12/3/2024

  11. The FBI’s Love Affair with Hollywood

    Published: 11/26/2024

  12. What is “National Security” Anyway?

    Published: 11/19/2024

  13. The Alt-Right Was Once Just on the Fringes. Here’s How it Went Mainstream.

    Published: 11/12/2024

  14. How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency (REBROADCAST)

    Published: 11/5/2024

  15. In One Michigan County There’s a Republican Fighting to Restore Faith in Elections

    Published: 10/29/2024

  16. The Mass Shooting that Everyone Saw Coming

    Published: 10/22/2024

  17. Can Exposing American Secrets Make You Safer?

    Published: 10/15/2024

  18. There’s a Conspiracy Theory for Just About Everything, So Should You Be Worried?

    Published: 10/8/2024

  19. Revisiting the First MAGA President

    Published: 10/1/2024

  20. How Modern Autocrats Keep Each Other in Power

    Published: 9/24/2024

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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.