The Delve

Hosted by Chalin Askew, The Delve explores one major question at a time — through narrative reporting, historical context, and long-form conversations. For listeners who want more than headlines, and the story behind them.

The Delve is a commentary podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 131 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Delve, a commentary show with 131 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  What's Going Down in Argentina

  Aug 14, 202615 minS10

  Thousands of Argentines marched through the rain outside Congress last week — tear gas, rubber bullets, a water cannon — over a bill that would have let foreigners buy unlimited land in the country. Except the government had already pulled that provision the day before. So why did people still show up furious? Chalin breaks down what's actually in the bill, what it means for Argentina's borders and water supply, and why a president who's pulled off a real economic turnaround still can't get the country behind him. Plus: a major new defense pact reshapes the Middle East, and a humanitarian catastrophe getting lost in the noise.

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  Episode #6

  Ceuta: Five Hundred Years, One Week

  Aug 7, 20269 minS10

  Sixty thousand people crossed into Ceuta in a matter of days. At least eighty-eight died trying. Reporting from Morocco, Chalin traces what actually happened at Spain's five-hundred-year-old African enclave — the policy signal from Madrid, the history nobody talks about, and what it means that a modest garrison built to hold a fence line couldn't hold a fence line. Plus: Spain's own government points fingers everywhere but at itself, and a preview of what's coming next on The Delve.

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  Episode #5

  Overturn This: Inside the White House Campaign to Reverse a Red Card

  Jul 17, 202613 minS10

  A red card. A trophy ceremony seven months earlier. An office inside Trump Tower. A phone call to FIFA's president. Chalin lays out, in order, exactly what happened between a controversial ejection at the World Cup and a rule that hadn't been touched since 1962 — plus what happened when the ball actually started rolling again. Then: a long look at Iran's invisible new Supreme Leader, who has not appeared in public once — not at his inauguration, not during the war he inherited, not even at his own father's funeral.

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  Episode #4

  Darializa Avila Chevalier: The Woman Without a Mandate

  Jul 9, 202616 minS10

  Two years before she won the Democratic nomination for New York's 13th Congressional District, Darializa Avila Chevalier stood at a chained door inside Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, singing as police moved in. Chalin traces the full escalation — from the first encampment to the overnight occupation to the arrests — and asks who actually paid the price for that night. Then: her record, her positions, and what a district that once sent Adam Clayton Powell and Charles Rangel to Washington deserves now.

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  Episode #3

  No Limits: Inside the Secret Cold War Between Russia and China

  Jun 12, 202615 minS10

  <p>While Putin and Xi shake hands for the cameras, a classified FSB document reveals what's really happening behind the "no limits" partnership — espionage, stolen military tech, and a territorial grudge over the Russian Far East that goes back to 1860. Chalin breaks down why Russia's most powerful ally might also be its most dangerous rival, plus a fresh Five Eyes warning on Chinese espionage and a few thoughts on Europe's continued Russian energy habit.</p>

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