Six Questions with Steven Beschloss

Eddie Glaude Jr.'s new book, 'America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries,' is a clear-eyed and beautifully written discussion not only of race in America, but of race right now in America. This summer, America's 250th, we have a unique chance to reckon with our past and imagine a better way forward. Steven welcomed Glaude with Six Questions, including, are Trump's victories just a backlash to confronting race?'

George Conway is an American attorney, political commentator, and infamous anti-Trump conservative-turned-Democrat who is now running for Congress in New York on a platform of accountability. While other Dems hedge on the need for investigations, Conway says that the base layer of our Democracy is our ability to hold the powerful and corrupt responsible for their actions. Steven has questions (six of them).

In the premiere of Six Questions with Steven Beschloss, journalist and America, America author Steven Beschloss sits down with Mary Trump — clinical psychologist, bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough, and Donald Trump's niece — for an urgent diagnostic conversation about the president's mental capacity and what his unraveling means for the country. Is Donald Trump's cognitive decline accelerating? Mary Trump doesn't hedge. Drawing on her clinical training and a lifetime inside the family, she lays out what she sees as a "perfect storm" — worsening cognitive decline, decades of untreated psychiatric disorders, and a man finally cornered in a way he can't bluff his way out of. "There is no worst," she warns. "He will always get worse." Across six probing questions, Beschloss and Trump move past the daily headlines to the deeper "why": the signs of narcissistic collapse, how his cruelty has "infected" the country, whether sociopathic leadership is now the Republican model, the national trauma we're not even naming, and how long it will take to repair the damage once he's gone. The six questions: Is Trump's cognitive decline accelerating? Is there anything left that could still surprise us? Has his mental illness spread to the country? Is cruelty now the model for other leaders? How traumatized is the country? How long will it take to repair the damage? Plus a rapid-fire lightning round on what makes Mary Trump angriest, who she most admires, and what — even now — gives her hope. Memorable moments: "His decline is revealing who he's been all along." "This is the Republican Party now." "We're so traumatized that most of us don't even recognize it." Six Questions with Steven Beschloss is a weekly pro-democracy interview series from Lincoln Square Media, going beneath the noise to ask the questions that actually matter. 🎧 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. New episodes weekly.▶️ Watch the video version on YouTube · Read more at the America, America and Lincoln Square Substacks. Guest: Mary Trump (@MaryLTrump). Host: Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss). A Lincoln Square Media production.

Steven Beschloss and Lincoln Square Media present Six Questions with Steven Beschloss, bringing the ideas behind the news, in an age of chaos and cruelty. Each episode, Steven Beschloss brings an expert guest into a compelling conversation — one necessary issue, in fearless pursuit of honesty, understanding, truth, and yes, hope, in the ongoing fight for democracy’s future. Premier's Thursday, June 4th, everywhere you get your pods.