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See how the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao answered your great questions.

Washington influence peddling isn't new, but that doesn't mean the peddlers shouldn't be called out.

In a somewhat bizarre op-ed last week on Supplemental Security Income, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof acknowledged, “I’m no expert on domestic poverty,” and then seemingly set out to prove it.

What one book would you tell the president to read going into his second term?

Reflections from Michael Winship, visiting Western Connecticut this weekend: “All those little kids…will no longer have the chance to make discoveries like mine.”

Take a look at some lawmakers and lobbyists who've made the switch from Capitol Hill to K Street, and vice versa, in the recent past.

Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith join Bill in a discussion about why Washington insiders are talking about the deficit crisis instead of the jobs crisis.

Bill takes you through the revolving door between Washington leaders and lobbyists to see how you lose and they win.

Poet and former publishing executive James Autry shares his poems with Bill and discusses his and his wife Sally's experiences raising an autistic child.

Poet James Autry reads and talks about Leaving Mississippi and Ronald's Dance.