A Charlie Rose Global Conversation

David Brooks is one of our most thoughtful and influential writers on American politics and the human aspiration. He is an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a regular commentator on PBS NewsHour, as well as a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine. Early in his career, he was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. David Brooks is the author of six books, i...

Jane Goodall, who became a global celebrity for her study of chimpanzees in East Africa, died on October 1ST in Los Angeles. She was 91.In 1957, with no formal academic training, she left secretarial work in England and traveled to Kenya, where she met Louis Leakey, the renowned paleoanthropologist who became her mentor. In 1960, at age 26, she went to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in what i...

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs - the well-known music and fashion entrepreneur - faces his sentencing hearing this week. Two member of his defense team, discuss the highly publicized trial of the summer of 2025.Combs’ defense team achieved a significant victory by securing acquittals on the most serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. He was convicted on two lesser counts of transpo...

The indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night program - which he hosted for more than two decades - reverberated across media, politics, and public conversation. We are at an important moment. The questions go beyond one host or one network. They speak to the balance between government power and individual rights. People on both sides of the political spectrum fear the rise of violence ag...

Karen Elliott House knows well the personalities and history of the Middle East conflict from her experiences as a reporter, editor, and author. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her reporting on King Hussein of Jordan. She later became foreign editor of The Wall Street Journal and eventually its publisher. She has written two books on Saudi Arabia: the most recent, published in July 2025,...

Sir Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow, Scotland, combined his education in history, politics, and economics at Oxford with his passion for debate to become a prominent historian, author, teacher, and documentarian. His works include a two-volume biography of Henry Kissinger, with the first volume published in 2015 and the second scheduled for release in 2027.His ideas and views appear in various med...

Michael Wolff is a New York writer whose books have been about: media and power, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News and Donald Trump and the Presidency. His most recent is: “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America”Michael Wolff and James Truman, former Conde Nast Editor,co-hosted a podcast called Fire and Fury. At Jeffrey Epstein’s request, Michael Wolff also recorded many conversations between them...

Gerard Baker is editor at large of the Wall Street Journal and host of WSJ at large on Fox Business. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal from 2013 to 2018 and now writes the weekly Free Expression column, which explores politics, economics, media, and global affairs. He also held senior roles at the Financial Times and the Times of London and served as a speech writer to the Chancellor of...

Douglas Murray is a British journalist, author, and political commentator whose work explores major themes in politics and culture affecting the future of Europe and America. He is an associate editor at the Spectator Magazine, a columnist for The New York Post and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Douglas Murray has written eight books. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and wrote his first bo...

The eyes of the world were on Alaska Friday as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin flew into Anchorage for a three-hour conference about the Ukraine war and then held a press conference without taking any questions. Analysts are trying to decipher the meaning of what was not said and the impact of what was not agreed. An agreement for a ceasefire did not happen. The question remains, do you need a cea...

Michael McFaul has gone from Montana to Stanford University,to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,back to Stanford to teach and write,to government as a national security advisor,and then to Moscow as U.S. Ambassador to Russia under the Obama administration from 2012 -2014.Now, he is back at Stanford to teach, write, and reflect on all things Russia,including the growing questions of democracy versus auth...