The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner

Veteran tech reporter Walt Mossberg discusses whether social media platforms finally understand the dis/misinformation crisis, how guardianship of literacy could be enacted, and why users need to take more responsibility.

University of Colorado professor of chemistry Jose-Luis Jimenez discusses the study of aerosol transmission of COVID and the pandemic's long-term implications for indoor and outdoor air pollution.

University of Florida biostatistician Natalie Dean discusses what numbers to look for when designing and deploying an effective vaccine. 

University of Chicago psychologist Katherine Kinzler discusses her new book “How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do – And What it Says About You."

Democratic Coalition founder Scott Dworkin discusses the Biden-Harris ticket and the  GOP campaign to ratfuck and sabotage a legitimate election. 

Sabato's Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik discusses surveying the American people and projecting 2020 outcomes during the pandemic.  

Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security researcher and infectious disease specialist Dr. Amesh Adalja discusses the American state of health insecurity.  

1 Day Sooner founder Josh Morrison discusses the potential effectiveness and legal status of and ethical challenges to Human Challenge Trials. 

Atlantic Magazine staff writer Adam Harris discusses the legacy of John Lewis, The Big Six, and how Americans can pave the path of a new Civil Rights Movement. 

Award-winning Brazilian journalist Patricia Campos Mello discusses what links the two countries, Brazil and the United States, with the worst pandemic responses.

University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee discusses the realities of a COVID plagued economy and how to recover beyond the pandemic.

Minister, activist, and Princeton University scholar Nyle Fort discusses the pursuit of economic justice as civil rights and previews his upcoming broadcast episode on The Open Mind.

Director of the Epidemic Intelligence Dr. Cyrus Shahpar discusses how to recover from the American failures and his work at Resolve to Save Lives. 

Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Ellie Rushing discusses her exclusive reporting on mail delays, suspended postal services, and the apparent targeting of voters in a Democratic-majority city. 

Public health leader Eric Feigl-Ding of the Federation of American Scientists discusses why his alarms fell on deaf ears and pandemic defeatism in America. 

THE DRUDGE REVOLUTION author Matthew Lysiak discusses Matt Drudge's impeccable news instincts and calling it as it is from political scandal to pandemic body counts. 

New York Magazine contributor and ex-Guardian political correspondent Ben Jacobs discusses the upcoming state presidential filing deadlines and the third party campaign of Kanye West.

Stop Funding Hate founder Richard Wilson discusses the campaign to persuade advertisers to pull their support for bigoted media. 

Georgia Southern University professor Jared Yates Sexton discusses the anti-democratic forces corrupting the United States and his forthcoming book AMERICAN RULE: HOW A NATION CONQUERED THE WORLD BUT FAILED ITS PEOPLE.

Whitman College political scientist Jack Jackson discusses his book “Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right."

Mad Dog PAC and Room Rater's Claude Taylor discusses his roadside and truck billboards. 

The Meiselas Brothers discuss Meidas Touch and their innovative multimedia presentations to educate and persuade the electorate. 

Historian Claire Potter discusses her new book "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy." 

Oregon Public Broadcasting editor Ryan Haas discusses an authoritarian and extrajudicial federal deployment in the Pacific Northwest.

ESPN's senior NFL insider Adam Schefter discusses the reality of sports during the pandemic and the psychological value of the NFL to Americans' well-being.