Banter: An AEI Podcast

Argentina looks set to elect the Peronist Alberto Fernández president in October, unseating the center-right leader Mauricio Macri. Ryan Berg joined the show to discuss what that could mean for the United States and the global economy.

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Oriana Skylar Mastro is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on Chinese military and security policy in the Asia-Pacific and rising power challenges to the international order. She also serves in the United States Air Force Reserve as a strategic planner at US Indo-Pacific Command.

Oriana joins Phoebe and Robert to discuss her service in the Air Force, US military readiness in the Asia-Pacific and global attitudes towards a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

This week on Banter, AEI visiting fellow Roger Noriega joined the show to discuss the past, present, and future of Venezuela.

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Max Eden is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on education reform, specifically K–12 and early childhood education.

Max joins the show to talk with Robert and Phoebe about school choice, critical race theory, and the future of American education.

Mackenzie Eaglen is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness. In the past, she has also worked on defense issues in the House of Representatives, in the US Senate, and at the Pentagon in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the Joint Staff.

Mackenzie joins the show to talk with Robert and Phoebe about how to strengthen US military capabilities, the Trump administration’s legacy on defense issues, what she expects the new Biden team to prioritize.