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Unclear and Present Danger
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and freelance writer John Ganz delve into the world of 90s post-Cold War thrillers with Unclear and Present Danger, a podcast that explores America in an age of transition to lone superpower, at once triumphant and unsure of its role in the world.
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Saving Private Ryan
Episode Date: October 1, 2026On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched Steven Spielberg’s World War II epic, Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom...
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X-Files: Fight the Future
Episode Date: September 5, 2026On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John discuss the 1998 X-Files movie, directed by Rob Bowman with a screenplay by X-F...
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Gattaca (feat. Nicole Hemmer)
Episode Date: August 14, 2026On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle is joined by Nicole Hemmer, a professor of history at Vanderbilt University and co-host...
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Armageddon
Episode Date: July 17, 2026On this week’s episode of the pod, Jamelle and John cover Michael Bay's 1998 asteroid movie Armageddon — the one where oil drillers, not astronauts, a...
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Godzilla (1998)
Episode Date: July 4, 2026On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, we watched Roland Emmerich’s attempt to bring Godzilla to Hollywood in the appropriately titled...
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Bulworth (feat. Vinson Cunningham)
Episode Date: May 27, 2026On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John are joined by Vinson Cunningham of the New Yorker to discuss Bulworth, the 1998...
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Oklahoma City: A Survivor's Story
Episode Date: April 17, 2026On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watch the 1998 Lifetime film Oklahoma City: A Survivor’s Story, starring Kathy...
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Mercury Rising
Episode Date: March 26, 2026On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watch the 1998 action thriller Mercury Rising, directed by Harold Becker and st...
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U.S. Marshals
Episode Date: March 7, 2026On this week's episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watch U.S. Marshals, the extremely lackluster sequel to The Fugitive which disp...
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GI Jane (feat. Hilary Matfess)
Episode Date: February 19, 2026On this week's episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John were joined by Hilary Matfess of the University of Denver to discuss G.I. Jane,...
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Unclear and Present Politics Episode 15 [PATREON BONUS]
Episode Date: February 12, 2026The next episode of the podcast will be here soon, but while you wait, here is the most recent episode of our politics show on the Patreon. In it, we...
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Murder at 1600
Episode Date: January 17, 2026Jamelle and John are back for the new year with an episode on the 1997 thriller Murder at 1600, directed by Dwight Little and starring Wesley Snipes,...
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A Few Good Men
Episode Date: December 23, 2025On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John marked the unfortunate death of Rob Reiner by watching his 1992 military legal...
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Wag the Dog
Episode Date: November 15, 2025Wag the Dog tells the story of a scandal-ridden president whose chief spin doctor, Conrad Brean (De Niro), decides to distract the public with a ficti...
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Unclear and Present Politics [PATREON PREVIEW]
Episode Date: October 24, 2025Every week, we do a political discussion show over at the Patreon. We wanted to offer you a preview of that show in the form of a full episode, which...
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Tomorrow Never Dies
Episode Date: October 24, 2025On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched Tomorrow Never Dies, the 1997 action thriller, the eighteenth film in t...
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The Jackal
Episode Date: October 1, 2025On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched the (rightfully) forgotten thriller The Jackal, a loose adaptation of T...
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Starship Troopers
Episode Date: September 15, 2025On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 science-fiction action thriller Starship Troopers...
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Red Corner
Episode Date: August 20, 2025On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched Red Corner, a 1997 legal thriller directed by Jon Avnet and starring Ri...