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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 18 hours 39 minutes
Michael Moore: Is It 2016 All Over Again?
Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker, talks about swing state enthusiasm for the president, his get out the vote efforts, and whether he's making election predictions this time around.
30 Issues: Repealing (Or Expanding) Obamacare
Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News and host of KHN's "What the Health" podcast, talks about the future of Obamacare under a potential Trump or Biden presidency.
Meet the 'Geniuses'
All this week, meet one of the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: Montclair's Nanfu Wang, 2020 MacArthur Fellow and documentary filmmaker whose most recent film is "One Child Nation," who was honored for "creating intimate character studies that exami
Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York on the News
Kathleen Rice, United States Representative for New York's 4th congressional district, joins Brian to discuss the news — from growing fears of election night violence to COVID relief efforts, and more.
Why A Historically Nonpartisan Medical Journal Got Political
Throughout its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine has remained nonpartisan. Until now. This month, the journal published an editorial slamming the Trump administration for its response to the Coronavirus epidemic, saying they turned a
An Update On Congress With Sen. Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (D-NY), talks about the latest Senate response to the public health and economic crisis.
Tuesday Morning Politics with Susan Glasser
Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: the Life and Times of Jim Baker III (Doubleday, 2020), talks about the latest national political news.
Meet the 'Geniuses'
All this week, meet one of the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: Brooklyn's Cécile McLorin Salvant, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, singer, composer and visual artist, whose received the honor for "using manifold powers of interpretation to infuse jazz standa
30 Issues: Maternal and Other Health Disparities
That Black women are three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white women is only one statistical marker of the health disparities in the U.S. Jamila Taylor, director of health care reform and senior fellow at The Century Foundatio
Bishop Michael Curry: Love in Troubled Times
Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, talks about his new book, Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times (Avery, 2020).