Jeffrey A. Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, and Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, join us to talk about the behind-the-scenes White House strategy that led to the Iraq troop surge.
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Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine, and he joins us to discuss why, he says, we’re writing blank checks for protracted conflicts with an all-volunteer military.
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Paul Theroux joins us to discuss his journey from the impoverished Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas to the Arizona border.
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Tom Mueller joins us to talk about the calculations that whistleblowers go through when they decide to raise an issue – and about what’s ahead for the person who called foul on the President.
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Journalist Martin Smith joins us to talk about Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia’s influence on the Middle East.
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Journalist Neena Satija joins us in Austin to discuss how Texas’ approach to public defense is failing low-income citizens.
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Journalist Jessica Klein joins us to talk about the little known trauma of “paper abuse”.
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Christopher Ketcham joins us to talk about the American West is slipping away in part to commercialization and lax federal protections.
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Karen Kornbluh joins us to talk about whether we should establish a government agency to monitor the spread of disinformation online.
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Washington Post columnist George F. Will joins us to make the case that America needs to re-engage with the nation’s founding principles.
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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie joins us to talk about how the department is evolving to address PTSD and mental health.
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Lara Bazelon joins us to talk about how exoneration can lead to long periods of despair for the wrongfully convicted and the victim.
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