Sources & Methods
National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields and the halls of power, they bring you inside the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community to help you understand America's shifting role in the world, and how events in faraway places matter here at home. Additional episodes feature interviews with power players from the NatSec world -- current and former military officials, intelligence experts, diplomatic leaders, and more.
Episodes
Hegseth blocks promotions / National Guard surge / Downed Apache
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is blocking some
promotions at the Pentagon, and a “summer surge” of National Guard troops heads
to Washington.
Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR Pentagon
Correspondent Tom Bowman and NPR reporter Kat Lonsdorf about the purges at the
Pentagon, and why there are still National Guard troops deployed in some Democratic-run
cities. Plus, a drone rescue in t
Trump, Netanyahu at odds / Elusive Iran deal
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started the war with Iran together, but they have different ideas for how to end it.Host Scott Detrow steps in for Mary Louise Kelly again this week. He speaks with NPR National Security Correspondent Greg Myre and NPR White House Correspondent Franco Ordoñez about the current friction between the two leaders, and where pain points have
The broken promises of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
There's a country that was once rooted in a movement around social justice and political freedom.That country? It's Iran in 1979 during the revolution.The path from 1979, with the toppling of a monarch, through the decades of oppression and economic turmoil that followed, to this current moment, is mapped out in the book: “Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran.”Host Mary Louise Kelly
Jake Sullivan: 'Hard to see' what U.S. has gained in Iran
Jake Sullivan, former National Security Advisor under President Biden, says it's hard to see what the United States gains in the war with Iran. He spoke with host Mary Louise Kelly before a live audience at the 2026 WBUR Festival last week for a wide-ranging conversation that included China, Ukraine, Greenland, Cuba, Afghanistan and of course, Iran."In the weeks leading up to the start of the bomb
U.S., Iran trade strikes / Trump 'won't rush' / Obama nuclear deal 2.0?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that there's been "some progress" in current negotiations with Iran. But both sides exchanged fire this week, so what gives?Today, host Scott Detrow steps in for Mary Louise Kelly. He speaks
with NPR International Correspondent Aya Batrawy and NPR Pentagon Correspondent
Tom Bowman about whether these diplomatic efforts can finally break the impasse
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Introducing Sources & Methods
National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields and the halls of power, they bring you inside the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community to help you understand America's shifting role in the world, and how events in faraway places m
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