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National Security, Unlocked

National Security, Unlocked

Up First from NPR
Oct 5, 2025 20 min
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Mary Louise Kelly, host of NPR's <em>All Things Considered</em>, is no stranger to tough conversations with important people. In her new national security podcast, <a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/g-s1-84651/sources-and-methods"target="_blank" >NPR’s <em>Sources and Methods</em></a>, Kelly brings 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.<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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