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Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the U.K.-based medical journal The Lancet, talked about the coronavirus pandemic and the response to it by governments around the world. He also talked…

Pamela Constable talked about her tour of Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area she reported on extensively since the early 2000s as Washington Post bureau chief of the region. She discussed…

Author and historian Harold Holzer talked about his book, The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News, in which he examined the…

Christopher Hitchens was interviewed in his home about his life and work following a diagnosis of esophageal cancer. He authored over a dozen books including his recent memoir, Hitch-22. Other…

Katherine Gehl, co-author of The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, talked about the current U.S. political system, arguing that…

Robert Caro talked about talks about, “On Power,” his audio project on the evolution and exercise of political power in America. He also talked about the progress he is making on the next…

Journalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, The Woman’s Hour, about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that…

Margaret MacMillan was interviewed about her book Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World, published by Random House. She described then President Nixon’s 1972 trip to China, details…

Manhattan Institute president Reihan Salam discussed whether the COVID-19 pandemic and current civil unrest in the country will lead to people moving out of large U.S. cities, as was seen…

“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace talked about his book, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World, about the creation of the atomic…

Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia) discussed his life and involvement in the civil rights movement, including the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, during which he was…

John Burtka, executive director and acting editor of The American Conservative, talked about the special edition of the magazine that examines where American conservatism came from and…

Malcolm Gladwell discussed his new book, Talking to Strangers, about how people make judgments, often inaccurately, about strangers.

Journalist Erin Geiger Smith talked about the history of voting in the United States and some of the issues surrounding voting today, including low voter turnout, voter suppression, and the…

Physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee talked about the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical science being used to combat it.

Ron Chernow talked about his 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton, which was adapted into the Broadway musical Hamilton.

University of California at Berkeley historian of medicine Elena Conis talked about the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s and the lessons that its distribution and use can teach…

David McCullough was interviewed about his life and work as an historian and author of many publications including his most recent book, 1776, published by Simon and Schuster. The interview…

Peniel Joseph, a University of Texas history professor, talked about the activism and converging ideologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. and the importance of their thinking on…

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussed his book, Imperfect Union, which chronicles John and Jessie Fremont and their exploration of the American West in the 19th century.…