Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former senior Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush, joins us to give his 101 in foreign policy and how it strengthens—or weakens—our lives.
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Why Leprosy Was Always Misunderstood
NPR news correspondent Pam Fessler joins us to talk about the history of a Leprosy colony in Louisiana.
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An Argument For Reparations
Duke University public policy professor William A. Darity Jr. joins us to make the case for monetary compensation for Black Americans.
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Russian Election Interference Started Way Before 2016
Yale University fellow David Shimer joins us to talk about the history of covert programs to influence voters.
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Why America Has Always Been A House Divided
Journalist Colin Woodard joins us to talk about how division has been a part of the American experience since the beginning.
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James Baldwin Still Has Something To Say
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. joins us to talk about looking at today’s racism through the eyes of one of the great thinkers of the 20th Century.
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How Women Earned The Right To Vote
Writer, director, and producer Michelle Ferrari joins us to talk about the passage of the 19th Amendment and the brave women who pushed that movement to success.
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George Washington: America’s Reluctant Father
Alexis Coe, host of the Audible series “Presidents Are People Too!” and “No Man’s Land” podcasts, joins us to take a 21st Century look at a figure we all think we know.
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Robert Gates On America’s Post-Cold War Path
Robert Gates, served as secretary of defense under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, former officer in the United States Air Force and worked for the CIA before being appointed director of the agency. He joins us to talk about the government’s use of power.
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Colson Whitehead Visits The Jim Crow South
Colson Whitehead’s latest novel is based on a real juvenile detention reformatory in 1960s Florida. He joins us to talk about his story of two boys, bound by the trauma around them as they swing between hope and cynicism.
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Beyond Borders: What Makes A Nation
Thomas Meaney, a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, joins us to talk about the history of military intervention, citizen uprisings, and the ideas around citizenship that define belonging in our world.
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What Happened The Last Time We Tried To Cut Off Immigation
Jia Lynn Yang, deputy national editor at the New York Times, joins us to talk about the lawmakers at the forefront of the push to change the law and the immigrants at the center of the fight for equality.
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