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Should Donald Trump Make Us Rethink the Reagan Legacy For the Worse?
Episode 429
Day after day people ask “how we got here?” In fact we don’t need a time machine. All we need do is to look back at the political history of the past…
5 years, 7 months ago
Science and Politics are Now Linked
Episode 428
If you picked up the New York Times one day last week, you would have discovered that about half of the stories on the front page were directly rel…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Curse of the US/Britain Special Relationship
Episode 427
Back on the 4th of July I saw a hat that said, "Make America Great Britain Again." A good laugh, even more so when superimposed on the current relat…
5 years, 7 months ago
A Conversation with Brian Stelter
Episode 426
CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter takes a deep look at Fox News, its power, and its stars in his new book Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, a…
5 years, 7 months ago
A Spouse Also Runs: A Conversation with Chasten Buttigieg
Episode 425
As the late Richard Ben Cramer so brilliantly detailed in his seminal book “What it Takes.” running for president, as a serious candidate, is one of …
5 years, 7 months ago
Remember When Diplomacy and the Arts Once Mattered?
Episode 424
Imagine a time when diplomacy mattered. When the arts mattered. And when they could actually work together to project America at its best. Oh how we…
5 years, 8 months ago
McCarthy to Cohn to Trump: A conversation with Larry Tye
Episode 423
Most of you know or have lived in cities with long streets or boulevards and you know that some of the same stores repeat themselves over and over ag…
5 years, 8 months ago
Gail Sheehy: In Memoriam
Episode 422
I guess it’s just that we are all getting older, but these In Memoriam programs are coming much too frequently lately…...Over the years I had the opp…
5 years, 8 months ago
Only The Best People: Why The Best and The Brightest Sometimes Aren't
Episode 421
Donald Trump came to power on a wave of distrust. Americans had lost faith in government, it’s institutions, and the ability of their government to b…
5 years, 8 months ago
Why Are Millennials Feeling Left Behind?
Episode 420
Every generation faces the challenges thrust upon it by the generation that came before. Today the millennials face the challenge of how they pick up…
5 years, 8 months ago