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Nov 16, 2022

Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. His forthcoming book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.

Sharlet reflects on the meaning of the 2022 midterms and how...


Nov 7, 2022

David Neiwert is an investigative journalist. He is the author of numerous books including Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of TrumpThe Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, and Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us. His...


Oct 31, 2022

Baynard Woods is the author of the new book Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness.

His essays and other writing have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

In this conversation, he reflects on the meaning of whiteness in American society and questions...


Oct 13, 2022

Nicole Hemmer is a political historian and founding director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the Study of the Presidency at Vanderbilt University. She is the cofounder of the Made by History section of the Washington Post. Hemmer’s writing has also been featured by the New York Times, CNN, and...


Sep 26, 2022

Dr. Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital about the horrible choices that doctors had to make as Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans.

Dr. Fink reflects of the challenges of...