Davin Phoenix, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, talks to us about who gets to be angry and whose anger actually affects change.
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Madame Speaker: The Political Life Of Nancy Pelosi
Molly Ball, Time magazine’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN, joins us to talk about Pelosi’s journey to becoming arguably the most influential woman in American political history.
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The Link Between Policing And Segregation
Monica Bell of the Yale School of Law joins us to argue that “segregation rots community life at the root” and that police reform is empty until we examine how people live in proximity to one another.
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In the ‘America First’ Era, Can The U.S. Lead The World?
Former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins us to talk about strategies to align the world in the battle for collective public health.
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Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College?
Jesse Wegman, a member of the New York Times editorial board, joins us to talk about how the power behind millions of individual votes can disappear with the decision of a single elector.
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Why 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.
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Can 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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Paul Krugman Explains the Economy
New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman joins us to talk about disproven ideas that have been resurrected by politics and fear – and about how to argue for common sense.
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The White Supremacy Of Pro Sports
Howard Bryant joins us to talk about how America’s ongoing conversation about race so often spills onto the court and field.
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What Trump’s Acquittal Means For Future Impeachments
Jeffrey A. Engel joins us to talk about how the Trump impeachment differed from the impeachments of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton – and about how it will affect future impeachment proceedings.
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The Epidemics That Changed The World
Frank M. Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, joins us to talk about how infectious outbreaks — both terrifying and romanticized — have shaped our world.
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How Economists Can Save The World
MIT economics professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo join us to talk about building a more humane world through rethinking the exchange of goods and services.
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