The Tea Leaves Podcast Creators & Guests

Ali Wyne is an international relations policy analyst. Currently, he is a senior analyst with Eurasia Group's Global Macro practice, where he focuses on US-China relations and great-power competition. He is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a fellow at the Modern War Institute.Wyne has served as a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a research assistant at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Wyne received a B.A.s in Management Science and Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Michael McFaul is an academic and diplomat.

David Reynolds Ignatius is an American journalist, novelist, analyst, author, and associate editor & columnist for The Washington Post.

Benjamin J. Rhodes is a writer and political commentator, with Jake Sullivan, he is the co-chair of National Security Action, a political NGO and contributes to NBC News and MSNBC regularly as a political commentator. He is also a Crooked Media contributor, and co-host of the foreign policy podcast Pod Save the World.

John Gans is an author and director of communications & research at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.