Josie Duffy Rice is president of The Appeal, a news publication that covers the criminal justice system. She joins us to talk about why the idea of policing as we know it must be upended because it views “Black safety” as fundamentally separate from “white safety.”
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Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine join us to talk about a national program for high school students to learn the nuts and bolts of U.S. government by creating it themselves, which they capture in their documentary.
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Tom Frieden, who directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009-2017, joins us to talk about the current response to COVID-19 and what America needs to do to prepare for future global outbreaks.
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Rebecca Winthrop, joins us to argue that, without teaching the fundamentals of how our government works, we’ll never convince people to get out the vote.
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Michael D’Antonio joins us to talk about his research into how one woman, identifiable by her first name only, became a symbolic cudgel for modern politics.
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Washington Post’s national political reporter and Washington Week moderator Robert Costa joins us to talk about the Biden and Trump campaign strategies to woo voters ahead of Election Day.
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Richard Kreitner, contributing writer to The Nation, joins us to look at past and present attempts to dissolve the United States.
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Niambi Carter, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Political Science at Howard University, joins us to reflect on the Democratic and Republican National Conventions – and talk about what Howard alum Kamala Harris brings to the Joe Biden ticket.
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Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi is a writing instructor at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation, and she joins us to talk about the fallout of stay-at-home orders on remote areas of Navajo lands.
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Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, joins us to talk about how the blueprint for our modern America was drawn during Reconstruction.
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Laura Rosenberger, the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, joins us to talk about foreign interference and the security of the 2020 presidential election.
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Gilda R. Daniels, former voting expert in the Justice Department of both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, joins us to talk about protecting the voting rights of Americans.
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