Political scientist Micah Zenko joins us to talk about why – relative to other time periods – we’ve never had less to worry about. His new book, written with Michael A. Cohen, is called “Clear & Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”
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As the political landscape heats up for 2020, Maria Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of Voto Latino joins us to talk about the issues that drive Latinx voters to the polls.
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Evan Thomas joins us to talk about the many paths blazed by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, which he writes about in “First: Sandra Day O’Connor.”
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Former diplomat William J Burns joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the continued importance of “soft power” in the wake of President Trump’s call for 23 percent cut in the State Department funding.
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UMass-Boston sociology professor Katherine S. Newman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the likely return of old-age poverty – and about how the country can renew its social contract with seniors.
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Pat Garofalo of the Center for American Progress joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how the economic promise of taxpayer subsidies from sports stadiums to movie productions often fails to materialize.
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Yale historian Greg Grandin joins us to talk about why it’s time to rethink the notion that there’s nowhere else to expand. His new book is called “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.”
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Kwame Anthony Appiah joins us to make the case that patriotism and cosmopolitanism are not mutually exclusive ideas. His essay “The Importance of Elsewhere” appears in the current issue of Foreign Affairs.
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Jan Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project and senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about why some counties are championing income equality – and about what struggling countries can do to catch up.
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University of Arizona law professor Andrew Coan joins us to discuss what we know about Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation and the work of previous special prosecutors. Coan’s new book is called “Prosecuting the President: How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law.”
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Northwestern University associate history professor Daniel Immerwahr joins us to talk about the lasting influence the U.S. has had on its territories. His new book is called “How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.”
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Isaac Arnsdorf joins us to talk about whether or not Trump has held up his campaign promise to improve the care veterans receive through the V.A. which he writes about for ProPublica.
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