Sabreet Kang Rajeev joins us to talk about understanding her parents’ journey, their hopes for their new life, and connecting those to her own story as a first-generation American.
Read moreRights Shouldn’t Be A Zero-Sum Game
Columbia Law professor Jamal Greene joins us to talk about why courts have an outsized role in determining what Americans fight for and against, a method he says is out of line with what the framers of the Constitution envisioned.
Read moreA Plan For Piecing America Back Together
George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss what he sees as four separate narratives dividing the country, and what each story says about the health of our nation as a whole.
Read moreNew To America? Here’s Where To Start
Roya Hakakian joins us to talk about her instruction manual for newcomers to this country, acting as tour operator for all the wonder of American sights and sounds.
Read moreHow More Policing Leads To Greater Unrest
Elizabeth Hinton joins us to discuss why the word “riot” is a racist trope and masks a long arm of history of over policing and neighborhood crackdowns.
Read moreNew To America? Here’s Where To Start
Roya Hakakian joins us talk about her instruction manual for newcomers to this country, acting as tour operator for all the wonder of American sights and sounds.
Read moreAmerica Has A Caste System, Too
Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.
Read moreMaking America Great In The Eyes Of The World
Robert Zoellick joins us to talk about aligning U.S. policy decisions with a larger global purpose.
Read moreGeorge Washington: America’s Reluctant Father
Alexis Coe, host of the Audible series “Presidents Are People Too!” and “No Man’s Land” podcasts, joins us to take a 21st Century look at a figure we all think we know.
Read moreWhat Happened The Last Time We Tried To Cut Off Immigation
Jia Lynn Yang, deputy national editor at the New York Times, joins us to talk about the lawmakers at the forefront of the push to change the law and the immigrants at the center of the fight for equality.
Read moreWhy America Seems Like Such a Mess
George Friedman, geopolitical forecaster and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, joins us to give us a bird’s-eye view of global politics, why the current political vitriol has long-lasting effects, and his predictions for how diplomacy moves forward in a divisive age.
Read moreCan Millennials Save the World?
Charlotte Alter, national correspondent for Time magazine, joins us to talk about the emerging national leadership of this oft-maligned generation.
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