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Nic Novicki, Founder and Director, Easterseals Disability Film Challenge 19.10.2020 1:00:34

Actor Nic Novicki, founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, talks about the 2020 entries and the winning films in three categories: best awareness campaign, best editor, and best film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isabel Wilkerson, Author, 'Caste: The Origin of our Discontent' 12.10.2020 1:01:54

Author and 2020 Kirkus Book Prize finalist Isabel Wilkerson argues that the United States has a hidden caste system that has played a role throughout its history and produced the racial divisions and injustices we see today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute 05.10.2020 59:36

The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro talks about the history of U.S. Supreme Court nominations and the confirmation battles that sometimes accompany them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Jay Dolin, Author, "A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes" 28.09.2020 59:19

Author and 2020 Kirkus Book Prize finalist Eric Jay Dolin talks about the destruction caused by hurricanes throughout U.S. history and the science and technology being applied to deal with them today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harold Holzer, Author and Historian, Part Two 21.09.2020 59:20

Author and historian Harold Holzer examines the relationship, often hostile, between the media and U.S. presidents going back to George Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet 14.09.2020 59:25

Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the UK-based medical journal The Lancet, talks about the COVID-19 outbreak and the response to it by governments around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pamela Constable, Former Bureau Chief of Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Washington Post 07.09.2020 59:49

Pamela Constable recently completed a lengthy tour as the Washington Post's Afghanistan/Pakistan bureau chief. She talks about her work, the people she's met, the issues she's covered, and conditions today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harold Holzer, Author and Historian 31.08.2020 59:27

Author and historian Harold Holzer examines the relationship, often hostile, between the media and U.S. presidents going back to George Washington. During part one of our two-part interview with Mr. Holzer, he talks about presidents prior to FDR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katherine Gehl, Founder, Institute for Political Innovation 24.08.2020 59:49

Katherine Gehl, founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, argues that our current political system is leading to voter disenchantment and an unhealthy level of partisanship, and suggests ways to improve it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaine Weiss, Author "The Woman's Hour" 17.08.2020 1:01:40

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 granted women the right to vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reihan Salam, President, Manhattan Institute 10.08.2020 59:12

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 after the 1960s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Wallace, Author of "Countdown 1945" and Fox News Host 03.08.2020 57:41

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace discusses his book, “Countdown 1945,” about the creation of the atomic bomb and President Truman’s thinking during the months leading up to its use on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6th, 1945. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia) 27.07.2020 59:54

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 severely beaten by state troopers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Burtka, Executive Director and Acting Editor, The American Conservative 20.07.2020 59:41

John Burtka, executive director and acting editor of The American Conservative, talks about the special edition of the magazine which examines where American conservatism came from and where it is going in the age of Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erin Geiger Smith, Voting in America 13.07.2020 59:51

Journalist Erin Geiger Smith talks 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 reliability of voting by mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Siddhartha Mukherjee, U.S. Response to Covid-19 06.07.2020 59:24

Physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical science that is being used to combat it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elena Conis, "Vaccine Nation" 29.06.2020 58:36

University of California at Berkeley historian of medicine Elena Conis talks about the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peniel Joseph, Professor of History, University of Texas 22.06.2020 1:00:24

University of Texas history professor Peniel Joseph talks about the activism and converging ideologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the importance of their thinking on the fight for civil rights in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition” 15.06.2020 58:58

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peggy Wallace Kennedy, "The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation" 08.06.2020 56:59

Peggy Wallace Kennedy talked about her segregationist father’s controversial career as the former four-term Alabama governor and presidential candidate, and his later political conversion after almost being assassinated in 1972. She also talked about her friendship with Representative John Lewis (D-GA). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Malcom Gladwell, "Talking to Strangers" 31.05.2020 58:43

Malcolm Gladwell discussed his new book, Talking to Strangers, about how people make judgments, often inaccurately, about strangers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Guinn, "The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip" 24.05.2020 59:37

Historian Jeff Guinn talked about his book The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip, on the highly-publicized summer road trips taken by Henry Ford and Thomas Edison between 1914-1925. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susannah Cahalan, Journalist, "The Great Pretender" 17.05.2020 58:38

Journalist Susannah Cahalan talked about her book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, about a 1973 experiment, led by Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan, conducted to test the legitimacy of psychiatric hospitals in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Fehrman, Journalist, "Author in Chief" 10.05.2020 1:00:05

Journalist and historian Craig Fehrman analyzes American presidents through the lens of the books they’ve written. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lual Mayen, South Sudanese Refugee 03.05.2020 57:30

Lual Mayen recounted his journey from life as a South Sudanese refugee to a Washington, D.C.-based video game developer and CEO of his company Junub Games. He was gaining acclaim for his work on peace and conflict resolution by bringing the refugee experience to a wider audience through his video game “Salaam,” which means “peace” in Arabic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...