Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about how the politics in Texas reflect the nation as a whole.
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Donna Brazile On Dysfuntion At The DNC
Former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile talks about the steps the party needs to take to strike back in 2018 and beyond.
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It’s Not The Refugees Who Are Changing Europe
Sasha Polakow-Suransky talks about how the hate behind the debate over refugees and immigration threatens to undermine the values of the United States and other world powers.
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Party Loyalty Vs. Ideology
LSU political scientist Nathan Kalmoe joins us to talk about how voters who are only casually engaged with politics make up their minds on Election Day.
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Why Millennials Reject Political Careers
Shauna L. Shames joins us to talk about why young adults increasingly feel they can contribute to society more effectively outside of government.
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A Talk With Justice Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer, associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, joins us to talk about his career on the bench – and about his book, “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities.”
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Can There Be Peace On Earth?
A panel of North Texas philosophers and academics join us to work through the question: What would it take to have peace on Earth?
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The Politics Of Intelligence
Joshua Rovner, chair of International Politics and National Security at SMU, joins us to talk about what’s at stake if the future president ignores the intelligence community.
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Presidential Appointees
This hour, we’ll talk about building smooth transitions from one administration to the next with G. Edward DeSeve of the Brookings Institute. He writes about the topic in “The Presidential Appointee’s Handbook.”
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The Politics Of The White Working Class
This hour, we’ll talk about how many in the white working class have come to feel disenfranchised with George Mason University’s Justin Gest. He’s the author of “The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Era of Immigration and Inequality.”
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The Republic Of Spin
This hour, we’ll talk about how every administration since then has used presidential press conferences as opportunities to craft the messages they want the American public to hear with Rutgers University presidential historian David Greenberg. He writes about the topic in “Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency”
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The National Endowment For The Arts
This hour, we’ll talk with National Endowment for the Arts chair Jane Chu about how her organization distributes its funding and about the intersection of politics and the arts.
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