Fifteen years after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and it is natural to reflect on our homeland security. It seemed a good time to sit down with the nation's first homeland security adviser to a president and later the first Secretary of Ho

Shira Springer: Behind The Scenes At The Olympics

Aug 2nd, 2016

Juliette Kayyem

Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman

Jul 21st, 2016

How To Talk To Your Kids About Dallas

Jul 8th, 2016

Four ways to address Dallas with your children.

Former CIA Agent and Author Barry Eisler

Jul 1st, 2016

Juliette Kayyem sits down with Barry Eisler to talk about his book "The God's Eye View."

Intelligence Brief: Orlando Shooting

Jun 14th, 2016

'72 On You' How To Prepare For Hurricane Season

Jun 8th, 2016

Juliette Kayyem speaks with Rich Serino.

Miles O'Brien: Why Are We Monitoring Planes With Technology From 1950?

May 25th, 2016

Juliette Kayyem sits down with Miles O'Brien to discuss EgyptAir Flight 804.

The Black Swan: Blyth Lord On Courage And Grief

May 6th, 2016

Peter Bergen: 5 Years After Bin Laden

Apr 28th, 2016

Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson

Mar 29th, 2016

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson joins Juliette Kayyem on the Security Mom podcast to talk about his journey to public service, his undercover operation as a TSA agent, his thoughts on Trump's wall and GOP immigration policies, pl

Mary Anne Marsh on Security Politics

Mar 13th, 2016

Juliette discusses security politics with Mary Anne Marsh.

The FBI Should Not Throw Photographers

Mar 2nd, 2016

Time photographer Chris Morris was choked and thrown down by a Secret Service agent at a Trump rally in Virginia Monday. The confrontation began when Morris placed a foot outside the media pen while taking pictures of a Black Lives Matter prote

To Catch A Thief (Or A Klutz), Anthony Amore On Art Security

Feb 12th, 2016

What can art security teach us about value, life, and taking kids to museums? Anthony M. Amore is the head of security at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (which was famously robbed in 1990 of several Rembrandts and a Vermeer) and a

Here's What You Need To Know About The Zika Virus

Feb 3rd, 2016

The best way Americans can protect themselves and their neighbors against Zika is to not travel to those areas with ongoing virus transmission.

Cornel West on Martin Luther King: 'A Love Warrior'

Jan 15th, 2016

Professor Cornel West joined Security Mom host Juliette Kayyem to discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s radicalism, the way history may have sanitized him and changed the way we think about contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter.

Security Takeaways From The Paris Summit

Dec 21st, 2015

Juliette Kayyem debrief's David Cash about the recent Climate Talks in Paris.

Introducing The 'Dronie'

Dec 2nd, 2015

Juliette Kayyem speaks with drone regulation lawyer, Lisa Ellman about how these new crafts are regulated, what security risks they might pose, and a new trend called "the dronie."

Intelligence Brief: After Paris, Am I Safe?

Nov 17th, 2015

Juliette Kayyem responds to the question "after Paris, am I safe?"

Ashley's War: Women in the Military

Oct 29th, 2015

As we await a final decision about allowing women in combat, host Juliette Kayyem sits down with author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. She's the author of the book Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Bat

Decrypting Encryption

Oct 8th, 2015

We hear about encryption, Edward Snowden, the NSA all the time. But how did we get to the point where the government can track us - and where will it go in the future? Host Juliette Kayyem speaks to Susan Landau, former Google employee and curr

Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz on Islam

Sep 22nd, 2015

Security Mom host Juliette Kayyem leads a panel discussion at Harvard's Kennedy Forum about whether Islam is a religion of peace. Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris speaks candidly with author and former radical Maajid Nawaz about religio

Why Gitmo Remains Open

Sep 11th, 2015

On the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks, host Juliette Kayyem speaks with Matt Olsen, former head of the Guantanamo Review Task Force, and Amy Jeffress, formerly of the Justice Department, about why Guantanamo Bay remains open today.

The TSA (And All Its Baggage)

Aug 31st, 2015

As summer travel season peaks, host Juliette Kayyem speaks with the new head of the Transportation Security Administration, Peter Neffenger, about the problems surrounding the agency and what he hopes to do about them.