Jared Cohen, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us to talk about the vice-presidents who rose to the occasion when the president they served under died – and the ones who didn’t.
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When The People We Elect Don’t Talk, This Is What We Get
Journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans.
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The Evolution Of Protests
Peniel E. Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about how these protests resemble demonstrations of the Civil Rights era – and how social media and video footage have changed how people protest.
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A Moral Guide To Economics
Gene Sperling, Chief Economic Advisor to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, joins us to talk about reimagining contemporary capitalism.
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Each Human Life Has A Value (And It’s $10 Million)
Adam Rogers, senior correspondent for Wired, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the actuarial models that determine the dollar value of a life and how that information guides public and business policies.
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The Truth Is: Conspiracy Theories Are Dangerous
Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to talk specifically about QAnon, whose adherents believe in a “deep state” plot against President Trump.
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Building A Democracy Not Dominated By Dollars
UT-Dallas professor Lloyd Dumas joins us to talk about the intersection of morality and money.
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The Undervalued Assets Of Black Communities
Andre M. Perry, a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about his deep-dive into six black-majority cities to find out why property is undervalued and what residents should demand for their futures.
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The Do’s And Don’t’s Of Debt
Atif Mian, John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School, joins us to talk about the short and long-term ramifications of debt on nations and individuals.
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Presidents’ Lives After The White House
Journalist Kate Andersen Brower joins us to talk about the post White House lives of recent presidents and how their experiences have created a bond among them.
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Joe Biden’s Fight For America’s Attention
Amy K. Dacey, executive director of the Sine Institute of Policy & Politics at American University, joins us host to analyze Joe Biden’s presumptive nomination, what leadership and campaigning during the pandemic will look like, and strategies he’ll use to reach voters.
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In the ‘America First’ Era, Can The U.S. Lead The World?
Former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins us to talk about strategies to align the world in the battle for collective public health.
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