Jeffrey Engel is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He joins us to talk about how previous administrations have communicated with the public about the health of the president.
Read moreIn Politics, The Loneliest Place Is The Middle
P.J. O’Rourke is a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, a Cato Institute fellow and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. He joins us to talk about how before we return to civility, we first must return to sanity.
Read moreThree Ideas For Police Reform
This hour, we’ll talk about the multiple ways we can think about policing in America.
Read moreHow We Might Fix Election Security
Journalist Benjamin Wofford joins us to talk about Texas election administrator Dana DeBeauvoir, who partnered with the tech world to build a safer election system.
Read moreTraveling With A Migrant Caravan
Filmmaker Nick Quested joins us to talk about embedding with Guatemalan immigrants bound for the U.S. border.
Read moreThe Origins Of The Satanic Panic
Journalist Jen Gerson joins us to discuss how and why the daycare “satanic panic” of the 1990s set the stage for the bizarre child abuse stories seen today.
Read moreOne Attorney’s Crusade Against Racism In The Law
Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney who helped win executive clemency from President Obama for seven of her clients and an entrepreneur focused on social impact investing. She joins us to talk about being the daughter of an incarcerated mother, her pro bono legal work, and her resolve to challenge the status quo.
Read moreThe Night 5 Officers Died In Dallas
Jamie Thompson, a contributing editor for D Magazine, joins us to talk about the viewpoints of bystanders and key players to offer a 360-degree view of events.
Read moreAmerica Has A Caste System, Too
Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.
Read moreA Conversation With Leslie Odom Jr.
Grammy and Tony-winning singer, Leslie Odom Jr. joins us to talk about his extraordinary career – and his philosophy that mistakes lead to breakthroughs.
Read moreThe Accidental Racism In Dermatology
Dr. Jenna Lester is the founding director of the Skin of Color Program. She joins us to talk about the gap between skin cancer statistics — survival rates of melanoma are only 65 percent for Black people versus 91 percent for whites — and what needs to happen within the medical community to improve.
Read moreIn The Age Of Hurricanes And Wild Fires, Americans Will Have To Move
Abrahm Lustgarten, senior environmental reporter with ProPublica, joins us to talk about projections of global migration patterns modeled just 50 years from now and how they will upend our planet.
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