Episode Details

New York Times columnist M Gessen explains why the midterm rebuke of President Trump does not mean Trumpism is over and what it takes to defeat autocracy.

Also on today's show:

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout on the personal and political crises shaping America and why she turns to fiction to explore them.

Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste speaks with Walter Isaacson about the American South, its extraordinary natural world and his new documentary, “American Amazon.”

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