In this collaboration between Think and The Texas Newsroom, we’ll explore why Congress has been unwilling to create legislation that addresses DACA, share the stories of DACA recipients as they go about their lives unable to plan for their futures, and talk to Janet Napolitano, who initiated the program as President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary.
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Ian Bogost, contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joins us to talk about ditching the urban core for peace — and distance.
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Katherine M. Gehl, founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, joins us to talk about lessons from the business world that could fix our political system.
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Nikki Khanna, associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Vermont, joins us to talk about how these women internalize feelings of being less than.
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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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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, 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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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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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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Davin Phoenix, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, talks to us about who gets to be angry and whose anger actually affects change.
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David Litt, a speechwriter for President Obama, joins us to talk about how we became so disenfranchised and polarized – and about how we can address these issues.
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Molly Ball, Time magazine’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN, joins us to talk about Pelosi’s journey to becoming arguably the most influential woman in American political history.
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