Meighan Stone, an adjunct senior fellow in the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us to talk about the humanitarian fallout of the rapid collapse of the nation and how the U.S. might help aid the women and girls left behind.
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Mansoor Adayfi was held at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp for more than 14 years without charges, and he joins us to tell his personal story of being kidnapped at age 18 by warlords in Afghanistan and sold to the U.S. after 9/11.
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Michael Hinojosa is superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District, and he joins us to talk about defying the governor’s orders by directing that masks be worn at schools – and about how schools are addressing the issues of learning loss by shutting down last school year.
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Peter T. Coleman is a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University, and he joins us to talk about applying methods of conflict resolution to work through our differences.
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Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss why Black students have always been an afterthought in higher education, the legacy that has created and the road toward reckoning with this discrimination.
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Mose Buchele, a reporter and host at Austin public radio station KUT, joins us to discuss the worst blackout in the state’s history and how our drive to operate on a grid separate from the rest of the country contributed to the problem.
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Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician, public health professor at George Washington University and former Baltimore health commissioner. She joins us to discuss her work in the area of public health on everything from opioid addiction to disease outbreaks to infant mortality.
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Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She joins us to talk about spending time with Mike Lindell to talk through his claims.
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Lisa Armstrong is a professor at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and she joins us to talk specifically about incarcerated people over the age of 55 who could’ve been paroled early to reduce overcrowding but instead remained in prison.
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Princeton University historian Matthew Karp joins us to discuss how both sides of the political spectrum have used history lessons for wildly divergent purposes, and what that means for the truth.
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Texas Observer executive editor Megan Kimble joins us to talk about alternatives to building more roads to suit the state’s ever-growing population.
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Aviva Chomsky, professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University, joins us to talk about hundreds of years of colonization and displacement, and why stabilizing the region will take more than just economic aid.
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