Sources & Methods
Hosted by Mary Louise Kelly and Scott Detrow · NPR
4.9from 1,562 ratings
- 82
- Episodes
- 78
- Transcribed
- 1,562
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About 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. Email the show at sourcesandmethods@npr.org (mailto: sourcesandmethods@npr.org). Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. (http://plus.npr.org/) You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including archive access and sponsor-free listening for Sources & Methods.
- Publisher
- NPR
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Aug 2025
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
78 of 82 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Iran's response to midterm results / The blame game / Risks and opportunities
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Israel deadlocked / Trump, Iran and the midterms
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
France on fire / Protests engulf Europe / Is Ukraine running out of time?
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Iran's response to midterm results / The blame game / Risks and opportunities
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We don't have an international stabilization force on the ground. That situation is potentially a tinderbox that could explode at any moment. You also have the war in Yemen right now raging again and the Yemen's Houthis attacking Saudi oil sites and airports and the Saudis striking across Yemen and that war. […]
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- Aya Batrawy
- Tom Bowman
- Daniel Estrin
- Greg Myre
- Eleanor Beardsley
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 973 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 589 ratings
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- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Mary Louise Kelly and Scott Detrow host the show. Published by NPR.
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