Veteran and writer Elliot Ackerman joins us to talk about the people he met upon returning to the Middle East after previous military tours.
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Look Up: You’re Being Watched
Arthur Holland Michel joins us to talk about balancing surveillance technology’s ability to save lives with its potential for significant intrusion.
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Tiny Nations, Giant Impact: The Politics of Climate Change
Time’s Justin Worland joins us to talk about how Fiji and other tiny countries are leading the charge to address climate change.
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Is the U.S. Really a Democracy?
Astra Taylor joins us to talk about why creating a true democracy is so hard – and the steps we might take to get closer to that goal of treating everyone the same.
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Your Political Party Is Outdated (And So Is The Other One)
Frank DiStefano joins us to talk about the defunct parties that once ruled American politics and how our climate of animosity is a landscape for a political reset.
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The Heartbreak that Shaped Barbara Bush
USA Today’s Susan Page joins us to talk about how former first lady Barbara Pierce Bush wielded power behind the scenes– as both the wife of a president and the mother of one, too.
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Scott Pelley’s Search For Meaning
Scott Pelley joins us to talk about what he’s learned from everyone firefighters to soldiers to sitting presidents spanning four decades.
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Overhauling The V.A.
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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Why Are Laws Hard To Change? Follow The Money
Princeton sociology professor Paul Starr joins us to talk about how concentrated wealth is often at the root of societal stagnation.
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The Far Left And Far Right Hate Liberals
New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik joins us to set the record straight about the definition of liberalism by introducing us to the people from history who invented the liberal tradition.
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Supreme Court Nominations As Senate Proxy War
Michael Kirk joins us to talk about how a fairly uneventful process of a Supreme Court nominee unanimously approval became ground zero for partisan conflict.
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How Political Is The Roberts Court?
Joan Biskupic joins us to talk about Chief Justice John Roberts’ commitment to conservative principles and his dedication to preserving the court’s image.
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