March 22, 2020Stacking the Courts. Supreme Court watcher and podcaster Dahlia Lithwick tells Bill, “This is happening almost in the dark of night... There is this stealth attack on government agencies and their ability to regulate themselves. It is happening at the U.S. Supreme Court under our noses.”
March 17, 2020Health & Human Services Sec. Azar’s Folly Is Potentially Deadly: Where are all the Respirators?
March 14, 2020It is time, fellow Americans, to remember the warning of the great journalist Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Let us together become the coalition of generations that closes the gates to the wolves ready to devour our freedoms.
March 3, 2020Bill talks to psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton about Trump, lies and dueling realities. “It’s a kind of purity of a single authoritarian person who claims to have nobility and claims that he alone and no one else can save the country. And by implication, the world. It’s pure megalomania,” Lifton says.
February 4, 2020This week: Impeachment and the Constitution. Lawyer Steven Harper has been following the Russian-Trump story from the very beginning, since before the election. He talks with Bill about what’s next.
February 1, 2020David Grossman is the author of numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. His writing has appeared in THE NEW YORKER and has been translated into more than forty languages. He is the recipient of many prizes, including the Premio Ischia international award for journalism and the Albatross Prize given by the Günter Grass Foundation. His most recent book, the novel A HORSE WALKS INTO A BAR, won The Man Booker International Prize in ...
January 10, 2020Military historian Andrew Bacevich and Bill discuss America's role in the world in the 21st century and what exactly does it mean to be an American after the Cold War?
August 4, 2019Richard Rodriguez is a journalist and essayist. His most recent work, DARLING: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, was published in 2013. The essay collection is a meditation on the Abrahamic religions after 9/11. Over the course of his career, Rodriguez has earned several prizes for his work, including a Peabody Award for essays that he presented on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
August 9, 2017Pema Chödrön continues to teach in Buddhist monasteries in the United States and Canada. She has written several books including: THE WISDOM OF NO ESCAPE, WHEN THINGS FALL APART, and most recently, WELCOMING THE UNWELCOME. In 2006, The Pema Chodron Foundation was founded in order to help ensure that Pema’s work can be supported sustainably into the future.
