Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, us to talk about how our country’s fear of the “other” has been with us since the beginning — and how our historical amnesia is holding back healing.
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Dr. John H. Halpern, a psychiatrist and former medical director of the Boston Center for Addiction Treatment, joins us to talk about how the power of the drug, first detected in Mesopotamia, has built to a crisis today.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, Samantha Power joins us to talk about her life in public service.
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Journalist Ash Sanders joins us to talk about how the rise of eco-anxiety is creating a public mental health crisis.
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Bina Venkataraman joins us to talk about why we’re so bad at developing foresight – and what we can do about it.
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Journalist Tom LoBianco has covered Pence for decades, and he joins us to talk about what he’s learned about who Pence is publicly and privately – and why he agreed to partner with a president with whom he seemingly has little in common.
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Tanisha M. Fazal, associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, joins us to talk about how a belief that modern war is tapering off is a dangerous falsehood.
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John Cleese joins us to talk about how his life is built around making people laugh.
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Peggy Wallace Kennedy talks to us about her work to change her family’s legacy.
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New York Times reporter Matt Richtel joins us to talk about our complicated immune system, which is capable of both healing the body and turning on it. His new book is called “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System.”
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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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Health and science journalist Laura Beil joins us to talk about the stem cell industry skirting the line between innovation and danger.
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