Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser for Vice President Joe Biden, joins us to make the case that American exceptionalism is alive and well, which he writes about for The Atlantic.
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Black Millennials And A Dream Deferred
Author Reniqua Allen talks with Krys Boyd about how black millenials are re-imagining what the American Dream means to them which she writes about in “It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America.”
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What Happens If We Don’t Turn The Other Cheek
Georgetown University professor Joseph Brennan joins Krys Boyd to discuss his essay “When Nonviolence Isn’t Enough” which appears in Reason magazine.
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What Trump Can Do In A State Of Emergency
Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, joins Krys Boyd to discuss the powers that presidents acquire who declare states of emergency, which she writes about for The Atlantic.
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Memes To An End: The Power Of Digital Culture
Author An Xiao Mina joins Krys Boyd to talk about how memes, emojis and other pieces of internet culture connect people offline, which she writes about in “Memes to Movements: How the World’s Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power.”
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What Journalism Does For The Arts
Host Krys Boyd talks with a panel of critics, artists and journalism teachers about the relationship between an arts community and the media and how it’s changed in an era of consolidation and social media.
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Why America Still Needs The Rest Of The World
Foreign Affairs magazine editor Gideon Rsoe joins Krys Boyd to talk about how America’s relationships with other countries has changed since the Cold War. He writes about it in his essay, “The Fourth Founding: The United States and the Liberal Order.”
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For Polite Conversation, Try The Internet
Antonio García Martínez joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his story “Used Wisely, the Internet Can Actually Help Public Discourse” in Wired Magazine.
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Texans Of The Year
Elizabeth Souder and Brendan Miniter of the Dallas Morning News’s editorial board join guest host John McCaa to talk about the finalists for the paper’s Texan of the Year.
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The Many Ways Presidents Leave The White House
David Priess, who served in both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush White Houses, joins us to take a historical look at presidential removal.
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Want To Kill The Middle Class? Try Tariffs
Matthew Rooney, managing director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, makes the case that excessive tariffs raise prices, kill jobs and inhibit innovation.
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Meet The Women Who Fought The Taliban
Journalist Eileen Rivers — a veteran herself — introduces us to women who served on Female Engagement Teams.
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