The Parliament

The riots we are seeing in France—and now Italy and Belgium—are more violent and destructive than anything we’ve seen in decades. While France is known for its lively public demonstrations, what has taken place recently is something truly different, not only in its scale of destruction, but also in who exactly is behind it and what it is ultimately trying to accomplish. If this is a protest for “e...

The war against Hamas in Gaza after the brutal Oct. 7th terrorist attacks was arguably the first global information war. Battles over narratives waged just as intensely as the kinetic war, constantly obscuring what is actually true. Apart from claims of “genocide” nowhere was this more apparent than in the informational battle over a supposed “famine” and humanitarian aid. At the center of this ba...

October 7th 2023 was a watershed moment for the world. Everything has changed, not just in the Middle East, but around the world. In today’s episode, Darion invites Alex Welz, Senior Research Fellow for the Middle East and North Africa at The Heritage Foundation, to the show to discuss what the Middle East looks like now compared to October 6th, 2023. They also discuss how we got to such a low poi...

On March19, 2026,18-year-old Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was murdered by an illegal alien. Sadly, this tragedy is just one of many.   Last week, The Heritage Foundation produced a powerful 20-minute documentary, Preventable , to share Sheridan’s story with the world from the perspective of her family and examine the policy breakdowns that preceded her death.  In this episode of the...

What happens when a social media campaign can move thousands of people toward an international border before governments, journalists, or even the platforms themselves fully understand what's happening? Just weeks after thousands of primarily young Moroccan men surged toward the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Darion Ouliguian sits down with Heritage Foundation Visiting Fellow Amine Ghoulidi to examine...

On the eve of the 1-year anniversary of the historic signing of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Framework for Peace and Cooperation, Darion sits down with the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the United States, H.E. Narek Mkrtchyan. In this episode of the Parliament, Darion speaks with the Ambassador about how this historic end of decades of hostilities came about, and what has changed in the regio...

The Middle East is rapidly transforming before our very eyes. It seems that every day there is a new major development that would have been impossible to predict just five years ago. While conventional wisdom argued that any attack on Iran by the USA would result in U.S. and Israeli isolation from Arab countries in the region, the opposite has become the reality.   In this episode of the Parliamen...

In this special audio-only episode, Darion travels to Krakow, Poland to interview former Polish President, Andrzej Duda.   Darion and President Duda discuss everything from major changes in NATO, the future of Eastern and Western Europe, how the war in Ukraine continues to dramatically alter politics on the continent, and why Poland – the 6th largest economy in Europe – can continue to serve as an...

After the US and Iran signed the Memorandum of Understanding to stop the war in the Middle East, Israel did not react with optimism. Many supporters of Israel and those who dreamed of a Middle East without the Iranian Mullahs in power were disappointed and angry. Will this be the end of US-Israel relations as we know it?  The Parliament makes confusing global geopolitics and American national secu...

The Parliament makes confusing global geopolitics and American national security accessible. Not just acronyms but explanations. In this episode, Darion invites Heritage Foundation Border Security and Immigration Expert, Brandy Perez Carbaugh to the show.      If you want to follow more of what we are doing in the NatSec space at Heritage, sign up for our biweekly newsletter (I promise it’s a news...

After the Cold War, America and its allies acted to reduce the proliferation and existence of nuclear weapons around the world, halting our own production and development. But our enemies did not. Instead, Russia and China set out to rapidly develop modern nuclear arsenals that out maneuver our own dated, rigid stockpile. Our credible strategic deterrence of our enemies is waning, fast.   The Parl...

Washington operates on the base assumption that the greatest threat to the United States is China (more specifically, the Chinese Communist Party). Not Russia, not Islamic Terrorism. China. But why is that?  The Parliament makes confusing global geopolitics and American national security accessible.   In this episode, Darion invites Heritage Foundation National Security and Indo-Pacific Affairs Po...

The Parliament makes confusing global geopolitics and American national security digestible. Not just acronyms but explanations. In this episode, Darion invites Heritage Foundation Vice President of National Security Victoria Coates to the show. Darion and Dr. Coates discuss everything from the military operations in Iran to global energy supply and demand, the Palestinians, China (of course), and...

The Parliament is a national security and international affairs podcast from the Davis Institute at The Heritage Foundation that goes beyond headlines to examine how power works, featuring expert voices on the policies and strategies shaping U.S. leadership.