Former national security adviser and UN ambassador Susan E. Rice joins us to talk about everything from her family’s history of enslavement, to her own privilege and power, to her headline-making policy decisions that still define America’s reach today.
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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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Brendan Koerner joins us to talk about the burgeoning study of urban evolution.
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Maritime terrorism expert Peter Lehr joins us to talk about the forces that created piracy and why we should heed warnings of its continued growth today.
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Two-time governor of Massachusetts William Weld joins us to talk about his strategy for challenging the president in the Republican primary.
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Sonia Nazario joins us to talk about how the combination of violence and corruption has everyday Hondurans fleeing in record numbers – and why cutting U.S. aid makes the situation worse.
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Journalist Jessica Klein joins us to talk about the little known trauma of “paper abuse”.
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Novelist Margaret Atwood joins us to talk about her new book,“The Testaments.”
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Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute, joins us for a primer on why tensions are escalating quickly in the Middle East, what it means for worldwide energy supply and if it could lead to a U.S.-backed war.
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James Poniewozik, chief television critic for The New York Times, joins us to argue that Donald Trump represents the melding of politics and pop culture.
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Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University, joins us to talk about his approach to civil discourse and toning down heated rhetoric to get to the heart of important issues
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Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University, joins us to talk about the medical debt that consumes one in five Americans.
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