Q&A - Season 15 / Year 2017

Season 15 / Year 2017

Episodes

Ronald Shafer

Rosemary Stevens

Maya MacGuineas

Benjamin Ginsberg

John Nixon

Heather McGhee

Edward Jay Epstein

Barbara Feinman Todd

Alexandra Wolfe

Brody Mullins

Sandra Navidi

Sheelah Kolhatkar

Thomas Sowell

Michael Doran

John Farrell

U.S. Senate Youth Program

David McCullough

Brad Snyder

Chris Cavas

Mark Cheathem

Roger Ailes Dead at 77

T.R. Reid

Malcolm Nance

Thomas Hazlett
Clemson University professor and former chief economist at the FCC Thomas Hazlett talks about his book, ``The Political Spectrum,'' about the history and politics of U.S. communications policy.

Paul Sparrow
Paul Sparrow, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, talks about the papers and artifacts housed at the location and provides a rare look at FDR's personal book collection.

David Garrow, Part 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow discusses his book, ``Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,'' which looks at Barack Obama's life prior to his years as president.

Robert Caro
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro talks about On Power, his audio project looking at the evolution and exercise of political power in the United States, as well as the next volume of his multi-part biography of Lyndon Johnson.

Pat Buchanan
Political commentator Pat Buchanan, who served as a speech writer and senior adviser to President Nixon, discusses his book, ``Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.''

Brooke Gladstone
On the Media's Brooke Gladstone discusses her book ``The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time.''

Manal Al-Sharif

David Garrow, Part 2

Mark Bowden

Cate Lineberry

Paul Butler

Carl Cannon

Tom Ricks

Anthony Clark

Adam Andrzejewski
Adam Andrzejewski discusses Open The Books, a watchdog organization he founded that tracks government spending at the federal, state and local level.

Randall Eliason
Former federal prosecutor and George Washington University Law School professor Randall Eliason, who writes the Sidebars blog at Sidebarsblog.com, talks about the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), as well as other prominent cases.

Ann Telnaes
Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes talks about her work and how it has changed since the rise of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.

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