Janet Napolitano joins us to take stock of our post-9/11 efforts to root out terrorism without crippling our free society. Her new book is called “How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11.”
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Is American Democracy Vulnerable?
Harvard professor Steven Levitsky joins us to talk about the societal fissures that have historically taken down democracies.
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Reproductive Care: The Third Rail Of Health Policy
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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Involuntary Racism
Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt joins us to talk about the consequences of bias and how it infiltrates all levels of society. Her new book is called “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do.”
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Terrorism Is The Least Of Our Problems
Political scientist Micah Zenko joins us to talk about why – relative to other time periods – we’ve never had less to worry about. His new book, written with Michael A. Cohen, is called “Clear & Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”
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A Million US Latinos Turn 18 This Year And They Are Ready To Vote
As the political landscape heats up for 2020, Maria Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of Voto Latino joins us to talk about the issues that drive Latinx voters to the polls.
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A Former U.S. Diplomat On Trump’s Foreign Policy
Former diplomat William J Burns joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the continued importance of “soft power” in the wake of President Trump’s call for 23 percent cut in the State Department funding.
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Americans Are Retiring With Almost Nothing
UMass-Boston sociology professor Katherine S. Newman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the likely return of old-age poverty – and about how the country can renew its social contract with seniors.
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Your City Lost Out On Amazon? You May Have Dodged A Bullet
Pat Garofalo of the Center for American Progress joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how the economic promise of taxpayer subsidies from sports stadiums to movie productions often fails to materialize.
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Manifest Destiny Ends With The Wall
Yale historian Greg Grandin joins us to talk about why it’s time to rethink the notion that there’s nowhere else to expand. His new book is called “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.”
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What We Owe the Global Village
Kwame Anthony Appiah joins us to make the case that patriotism and cosmopolitanism are not mutually exclusive ideas. His essay “The Importance of Elsewhere” appears in the current issue of Foreign Affairs.
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Where You Live Determines How You Live
Jan Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project and senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about why some counties are championing income equality – and about what struggling countries can do to catch up.
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