Nick Martin joins us to talk about the process of consultation, which was designed as a negotiation tool but is more often used to notify Indigenous communities about pipelines, mines and other major projects adjacent to sacred lands – after it’s too late for them to meaningfully voice their concerns.
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NBC News national investigative reporter Mike Hixenbaugh joins us to talk about how conversations about race are playing out in the North Texas suburb of Southlake.
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Leonard Moore has taught Black history for more than 25 years, and he joins us to talk about asking students to consider uncomfortable questions about racism to move beyond words toward paths of reckoning and reconciliation.
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McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about a hedge fund that is buying up newspapers across the country and dismantling them at an alarming rate.
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Journalist Ray Suarez joins us to talk about everyday Americans who have lost jobs and homes – and about the degree to which the economy is working for different sectors of the population.
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Bill Burnett, executive director of the Design Program at Stanford, joins us to discuss ways to access creativity and personal growth even as the workplace is radically changing.
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Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, joins us to discuss strategies for talking about climate change and how to connect to skeptics by finding shared values.
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NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang joins us to explore what the latest numbers say about the country’s racial makeup – and how this snapshot of America drives everything from federal spending to representation in Congress.
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb joins us to discuss what he calls a system-wide failure of government to control Covid-19, and what needs to happen to prepare for the next global health emergency.
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Seth G. Jones is director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and he joins us to talk about American adversaries who are changing the game when it comes to international conflict.
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Alfredo Corchado is a correspondent for The Dallas Morning News who covers the border, and he joins us to talk about the situation – and the realities of immigration and life along the border amid ever-shifting policies.
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Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a chancellor’s professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, and she joins us to talk about how weaponizing the citizenry takes a cue from the Fugitive Slave Acts, and how the practice might affect liberty today.
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