In the past eight years, more than 2,100 bills were signed into law that were almost entirely copied from model bills presented to lawmakers by lobbyists. Reporter Nick Penzenstadler lead an investigation for USA Today, and he joins us to talk about just how easy it is for special interest groups to push their platforms into law.
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Architect and urban planner Peter Calthorpe joins us to talk about how urban planners are thinking through how to handle large populations living in close quarters.
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David Frum joins us to walk through the many complicated issues at play with immigration like the question that divides us– how much is too much?
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Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University, joins us to talk about how the current breakdown of international trade agreements eerily resembles the run-up to the First World War.
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David E. McCraw is deputy general counsel for The New York Times, and he joins us to talk about the delicate line between protecting the paper’s voice while also guarding it from legal trouble.
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Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin join us to talk about the many ways black Americans resist the forces against them every day. Their collection of interviews is called, “How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance.”
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New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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Sophie Novack joins us to talk about how diabetes hits poor communities in Texas and elsewhere particularly hard, which she writes about for the Texas Observer.
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College, London, joins us to discuss how qualities that land people leadership roles – overconfidence, narcissism – are often the same qualities that stand in the way of leadership.
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Tech journalist James Vlahos joins us to talk about the many ways these chatbots will affect business, privacy and even our understanding of consciousness. His new book is called “Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think.”
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of business psychology at University College, London, joins us to discuss the psychological miscalculations at play with bad hiring decisions.
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Former diplomat William J Burns joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the continued importance of “soft power” in the wake of President Trump’s call for 23 percent cut in the State Department funding.
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