Original air date
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Interviewee(s) |
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| January 5, 2020 |
Daniel Weiss |
Featured discussion of Weiss's book In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam.
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| January 12, 2020 |
Donald Ritchie |
Featured discussion of the history of impeachment trials in the United States.
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| January 19, 2020 |
Joseph McQuaid |
Featured discussion of the history of the New Hampshire primaries.
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| January 26, 2020 |
David Yepsen |
Featured discussion of the history of the "first-in-the-nation" Iowa caucuses.
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| February 2, 2020 |
Kathryn Sullivan |
Featured discussion of Sullivan's experiences as a member of the NASA's first class of female astronauts.
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| February 9, 2020 |
Micheal Lual Mayen |
Featured discussion of Mayen's experiences as a South Sudanese refugee and as a video game developer.
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| February 16, 2020 |
Craig Fehrman |
Featured discussion of Fehrman's book Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote.
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| February 23, 2020 |
Matthew Green |
Featured discussion of Green's book The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership, and focused on his analyses of various Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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| March 1, 2020 |
Carl Cannon |
Featured discussion of the history of the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.
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| March 8, 2020 |
Peggy Wallace Kennedy |
Featured discussion of Kennedy's book The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation.
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| March 15, 2020 |
Steve Inskeep |
Featured discussion of Inskeep's book Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War.
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| March 22, 2020 |
Christian McMillen |
Featured discussion of McMillen's book Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction.
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| March 29, 2020 |
Amity Shlaes |
Featured discussion of governmental responses to economic crises.
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| April 5, 2020 |
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Featured a profile of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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| April 19, 2020 |
James Wallner |
Featured discussion of U.S. Senate majority leaders.
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| June 21, 2020 |
Peniel Joseph |
Featured discussion of Joseph's book The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr..
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| June 28, 2020 |
Elena Conis |
Featured discussion of the development of the Polio vaccine.
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| July 5, 2020 |
Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Featured discussion of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| July 12, 2020 |
Erin Geiger Smith |
Featured discussion of Smith's book Thank You for Voting.
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| July 19, 2020 |
John Burtka |
Featured discussion of The American Conservative's analysis of the current status of conservatism.
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| August 2, 2020 |
Chris Wallace |
Featured discussion of Wallace's book Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World.
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| August 9, 2020 |
Reihan Salam |
Featured discussion of Salam's role as president of the Manhattan Institute, and of potential long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on large cities.
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| August 16, 2020 |
Elaine Weiss |
Featured discussion of Weiss's book The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.
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| August 23, 2020 |
Katherine Gehl |
Featured discussion of Gehl's book The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy.
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| August 30, 2020 |
Harold Holzer |
Part one of a discussion of Holzer's book The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News.
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| September 13, 2020 |
Richard Horton |
Featured discussion of Horton's role as editor-in-chief of The Lancet.
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| September 20, 2020 |
Harold Holzer |
Part two of the discussion with Holzer.
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| September 27, 2020 |
Eric Jay Dolin |
Featured discussion of Dolin's book A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes.
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| October 4, 2020 |
Ilya Shapiro |
Featured discussion of Shaprio's book Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court.
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| October 11, 2020 |
Isabel Wilkerson |
Featured discussion of Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
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| October 18, 2020 |
Nic Novicki |
Featured discussion of Novicki's work as the founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge.
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| October 25, 2020 |
Kathleen Belew and Jillian Melchior |
Featured discussion of the Proud Boys and Antifa.
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| November 1, 2020 |
Matthew Weil and Laura Hautala |
Featured discussion of mail-in ballots, election security, and voting machines.
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| November 8, 2020 |
David Savage |
Featured discussion of the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case.
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| November 15, 2020 |
Sarah Brayne |
Featured discussion of law enforcement use of big data and new surveillance technologies.
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| November 22, 2020 |
James Taing |
Featured discussion of Taing's documentary Ghost Mountain, about the 1979 massacre of Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's Killing Fields by Thai soldiers along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
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| December 6, 2020 |
Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway |
Featured discussion of contentious presidential transitions in U.S. history.
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| December 13, 2020 |
Kat Cammack and Sara Jacobs |
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| December 20, 2020 |
Jake Wood |
Featured discussion of Wood's role as one of the founders of Team Rubicon.
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| December 27, 2020 |
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