
Podcast America’s Choice 2026

Episode 80: America First 2.0: Trump’s Economic and Trade Policy Under Pressure
With Ulrike Malmendier, Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley, and Melanie Vogelbach, Head of International Economic Policy at the DIHK, we discuss Trumponomics and its consequences for the transatlantic trade relationship.

EP79: From America First to the Donroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Policy in Transition
With Gudrun Engel, Head of the ARD Studio in Washington, and Omid Nouripour, Vice President of the German Bundestag and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, we discuss the new logic of U.S. foreign policy and its consequences for Europe and Germany.

EP78: The Power of Media: Inside the US information landscape 2026
With Andrian Kreye, editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Kerstin Zilm, freelance reporter in Los Angeles, deputy chair of the global journalists’ network Weltreporter, we discuss the current state of the US media landscape and the political debate around disinformation.

