All Episodes

Ron Brownstein with Madeleine Brand: Midterms: Who's Winning the Battle for America's Future?

Barbara McQuade and Henry Weinstein: The Fix - Saving America from The Corruption of a Mob-Style Government

David Siegel with Larry Mantle: Israel's Diplomatic Future - Crisis, Opportunity, and the Role of Europe

Erwin Chemerinsky with Patt Morrison: The Supreme Court's Landmark October 2025 Term - What it Means for America

Mary Ruth Ziegler with Madeleine Brand: Who Decides? Reproductive Rights, Democracy, and the Future of America

Theo Baker with Larry Mantle: Who Gets to Rule the Future?

Rick Hasen with Patt Morrison: Democracy on the Ballot: Voting Rights, The Supreme Court, and the Future of American Elections

Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy with Madeleine Brand: The 2026 Midterms - Blue Walls, Red Waves & Other Political Myths

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser with Larry Mantle: America's Midterm Elections: Will 2026 be a Political Reckoning?

Amb. Dennis Ross with Larry Mantle: Iran, Israel, and America: Where are we and wher do we go from here?

Andrew Weissmann with Patt Morrison: Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deciet and Save America

Josh Tyrangiel with Patt Morrison: When AI Meets Government: Promise, Panic, and the Work in Between

James Carville with Madeleine Brand: Campaign Season is Here: James Carville Unfiltered

Josh Rogin with Larry Mantle: American Power at the Crossroads: Confronting China and a Fragmenting World

Ami Fields Meyers and Julia Angwin with Patt Morrison: Courage in the Age of Fear

Thomas Friedman with Larry Mantle: Hot, Flat and Fractured: Navigating a World in Turmoil

Ruth Ben-Ghiat with Patt Morrison: The Role of Fear in the Decline of Democracy: The Power, Politics and Impact of Fear as a Tool of Political Persuasion

Juliette Kayyem with Warren Olney: Security in an Era of Domestic Instability

Tim Naftali with Madeline Brand: Can American Institutions Still Contain Political Extremism?

Elie Honig with Larry Mantle: Power, Precedent, and America’s Legal Future

Aaron David Miller with Patt Morrison: War Making and Peacemaking: The Future of the US-Israeli Relationship

David Frum with Patt Morrison: Democracy Under Stress: Is the Tide Turning?

Dalia Dassa Kaye with Robin Wright: The High-Stakes of US Policy on Iran

Jennifer Rubin with Patt Morrison: The Cost of Cowardice: Power, Accountability, and the Fight for American Democracy

Leon Panetta with Larry Mantle: Power Without Order - America and the New Global Chaos

Ken Burns and Rick Atkinson with Patt Morrison: Revolutionary Crossroads: How America's Founding Era Illuminates Today's Struggles for America's Future

Max Boot with Larry Diamond: What is The Endgame? U.S. Policy and the Future Of Venezuela , Ukraine, Greenland, and Beyond

Susan Glasser with Madeleine Brand: Collapsing Norms: Can American Democracy Survive This Stress Test?

Carol Leonnig with Warren Olney: How Politics & Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

Ron Brownstein with Patt Morrison: The Midterm Reckoning: What’s Likely and What’s at Stake in 2026

Amb. Dennis Ross with Warren Olney: Israel, Gaza and the Middle East: What Lies Ahead?

Jonathan Blitzer with Patt Morrison | Getting Beyond the Border: How Immigration Became a Political Crisis

Abby Leibman & Bob Greenstein: The Politics of Hunger: How America Confronts Poverty in a Time of Crisis

Leah Litman with Madeleine Brand | Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

Ambassador (Fmr) Michael McFaul and Larry Diamond | Autocrats vs. Democrats: The New Global Disorder

Erwin Chemerinsky with Warren Olney | The Constitution in Crisis: What’s at Stake for American Democracy?

Aaron David Miller with Madeleine Brand | Israel Update: Trump's Plan - Breakthrough or BreakDown?

Mark Stern with Larry Mantle | Courts in the Crosshairs: What’s Next for Justice in America

Steven Cash with Larry Mantle | The Rise of Authoritarianism in America: A Perspective from Former National Security Officials

Rick Hasen with Larry Mantle | Can Democracy Hold? The 2026 Midterm Challenge

Joyce Vance with Patt Morrison | The American Justice System, Part II: Still Testing the Limits

Linda Greenhouse with Patt Morrison | Law, Politics, and Power: Perspectives on the Supreme Court

Anne Applebaum with Madeleine Brand | Autocracy Inc.: The Siege on Democracy

Miguel Santana, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, and David Leonhardt with Patt Morrison | Raids, Rights, and Reckonings: America's Immigration Crossroads

Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Lessons from Oslo & Trump’s 20-Point Plan

Julio Frenk with Larry Mantle | Can America's Universities Survive the Current Assault?

David Frum with Patt Morrison | America's Democracy: Where Do We Go From Here?

Aluf Benn with Warren Olney | Israel in Crisis: Can the Two State Solution Be Resurrected?

Mary Ziegler with Patt Morrison | The Politics of Control: Abortion, Power, and How Abortion Shapes American Politics

Mike Mullen with Warren Olney | War, Peace and the American Future: Insights From a Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Alexander Vindman with Madeleine Brand | How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine

Ron Brownstein with Larry Mantle | Life During Wartime: Politics in an Age of Convulsion

Jonathan Weisman with Madeleine Brand | American Antisemitism: Being Jewish in the Age of Trump

Bill Kristol with Patt Morrison | Speaking Out and Speaking Up: Bill Kristol on the State of the Nation

Paul Maslin and Mike Murphy with Patt Morrison | What Does Washington's Chaos Portend for the 2026 Midterms?

Max Boot with Warren Olney | Russia's War on Ukraine: Trump, Putin, Zelensky, and the Search for Peace

E.J. Dionne with Madeleine Brand | Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country

Mayor Karen Bass with Patt Morrison | Federal Troops in LA: What Comes Next?

Marc Dunkelman with Larry Mantle | The USA: Why Nothing Is Working And How To Fix It

Amb. Dennis Ross with Patt Morrison | Israel in Crisis Briefing #22

Aaron David Miller with Patt Morrison | Israel in Crisis: The Latest Challenges and Shifts

Rachel Barkow with Warren Olney | Justice Abandoned: What Happens When The Supreme Court, The Constitution and The Rule of Law Are Ignored?

Michael Roth with Patt Morrison | The Use and Abuse of Anti-Antisemitism: A University President's Perspective

David Ignatius with Larry Mantle | Behind the Headlines: America's Role in a Changing World

David Axelrod with Madeleine Brand | Can Our American Democracy Survive Today's Challenges?

Andrew Weissmann with Warren Olney | The Critical Quest for Presidential Accountability

Douglas Brinkley with Patt Morrison | The American Presidency: A Presidential Historian's Perspective

Bret Stephens with Larry Mantle | Still 45 Months To Go: Trump, America, and The World

Ambassador (Fmr) Michael McFaul and Larry Diamond | Trump's Foreign Policy: The Impact On Global Democracy and U.S. National Security

Jon Michaels with Madeleine Brand | Vigilante Nation: The Subversion of American Democracy

Sarah Longwell and George Conway with Warren Olney | "Whither Goest Thou America?": Hopes for the Future of Our Country

Amb. Dennis Ross with Larry Mantle | Statecraft: Donald Trump and Prospects for the Middle East and US Foreign Policy in 2025

Harry Litman with Patt Morrison | Can Our Justice System Weather the Storm?

Susan Glasser with Madeleine Brand | The Trump Cabinet

Jennifer Rubin with Larry Mantle | Can Democracy and A Free Press Survive Billionaire Ownership of Major Media?

Michael Posner with Madeleine Brand | Social Media and Democracy: Can We Reclaim A Common Truth?

Erwin Chemerinsky with Larry Mantle | Is A Constitutional Convention in the Cards...and More Critical Constitutional Questions

Aluf Benn with Patt Morrison | Israel in Crisis Briefing #21

Joyce Vance with Patt Morrison | The American Justice System: Testing the Limits

Ken Khachigian with Warren Olney | What Would Nixon and Reagan Say Today?

Marvin Kalb with Warren Olney | America’s Continuing Anguish: Russia from Khrushchev to Putin

Nancy MacLean with Patt Morrison | Democracy in Chains: How We Got Here and How to Prepare for What Comes Next

Jeffrey Goldberg with Madeleine Brand | Inauguration Week: Where Are We Headed?

Amb. Dennis Ross with Patt Morrison | Israel in Crisis Briefing #20

Dr. Anthony Fauci with Patt Morrison | A Lifetime of Public Service: A Look Back and a Look Ahead

Nicholas Kristof with Warren Olney | Finding Hope in Stressful Times

Ehud Olmert and Nasser Al-Kidwa with Larry Mantle | Two Former Leaders - An Israeli and a Palestinian - Offer Path to Peace

David Frum with Larry Mantle | Trump Won: Now What?

David Leonhardt with Madeleine Brand | How the Democrats have lost the working class

Amb. Michael McFaul with Larry Diamond | The Election is Over: What Do the Results Mean for Ukraine, the Middle East, and U.S. Foreign Policy?

Jason Van Tatenhove with Larry Mantle | The perils of extremism: How I left the Oath Keepers and why we should be concerned about a future civil war.

Ron Brownstein with Warren Olney | 2024 Election Postmortem: Where do we go from here?

Lynn Vavreck and Norm Ornstein with Patt Morrison | Election 2024: Analysis of two Experts on Election Eve

Anne Applebaum with Larry Mantle | Countdown to 2024: The election's impact on foreign wars, foreign policies and America's world standing

Celinda Lake and Paul Maslin with Madeleine Brand | Countdown to 2024: What are the polls telling us and are they right?

Jennifer Rubin with Warren Olney | Countdown 2024: A Keen Observer's Perspective

Harry Dunn with Patt Morrison | A Harrowing Account of January 6 and Thoughts About January 2025

Ron Brownstein with Larry Mantle | Election 2024: The Final Countdown

Rick Hasen with Warren Olney | 2025: What are the chances of a peaceful transition of power?

Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy with Patt Morrison | 2024 Election Update: A Democrat's and a Republican's Views