Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, joins us to talk about Baker’s close and competitive friendship with George H.W. Bush – and about his diplomatic work that reshaped the world in the last quarter of the 20th Century.
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This hour, we’ll talk about mail-in ballots and the actual risk of voter fraud. We’ll hear from a former state redistricting chairman about how dividing up voting districts is much more complicated than you might think. And we’ll talk about ongoing efforts to fight voter suppression.
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Peter Strzok served as deputy director of the counterintelligence division and received the bureau’s highest investigative honor, the Director’s Award for Excellence. He joins us to talk about his career tracking Russian interference – and about his very public firing after President Trump took office.
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Mary Gallagher, director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan, joins us to discuss the current state of U.S.-China relations and what it would take for the relationship to improve.
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Rick Steves, the host of the PBS series “Rick Steves Europe” joins us to virtually whisk us away to bucolic cobble stone streets and dramatic Alpine views.
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Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, professor of urban policy and health at The New School, joins us to talk about how physical spaces are turned into communities, from her research in 178 cities across 14 countries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Filmmaker Miles Hargrove joins us to tell his own story — the story he captured on a Video8 camcorder — of his family’s dramatic and harrowing struggle to get their patriarch home.
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Harvard government professor Michael J. Sandel joins us to talk about how many of America’s problems can be traced to a lack of concern over what’s best for society.
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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.
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