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The State of the State of New Jersey; Roz Chast and Patricia Marx; A Never-Trumper's 2020 Book for Democrats
Hear three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them: The State of the State of New Jersey (First) | Couples Advice in Words and Pictures (and Music) (Starts at 30:00) | A Never-Trumper's 2020 Book for Democrats (Starts at 47:00) If
Your 21st Century Job
Adam Davidson, New Yorker staff writer, co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, CEO of the podcast production company Three Uncanny Four, and the author of The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century (Knopf, 2020) argues the fut
Cecile Richards Talks About E.R.A., 2020 and 'Making Trouble'
Cecile Richards, co-founder of Supermajority, former president of Planned Parenthood and author of Make Trouble Young Readers Edition: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2019), talks about a life in
The State of the State of New Jersey
Earlier this week New Jersey Governor Murphy delivered the annual State of the State address. Matt Friedman, reporter for Politico New Jersey and author of New Jersey Playbook, talks about the governor's priorities and other political news from the Gard
Lev Parnas Implicates Trump
David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst, current professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former White House adviser to four presidents, talks about the current impeachment news, and discusses what it was like inside the Nixon and Cli
Couples Advice in Words and Pictures (and Music)
Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist, author of the graphic memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant, and Patricia Marx, New Yorker contributor, former writer for Saturday Night Live and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon, team up with
Kristof and WuDunn on Challenges in Rural America
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, and writer and former Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter Sheryl WuDunn, spouses and co-authors of Tightrope: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (Knopf, January 14, 2020), share what they came to under
The Final Debate Before Iowa
Karine Jean-Pierre, chief public affairs officer of MoveOn, political activist and analyst and the author of Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America (Hanover Square Press, 2019), offers a recap and analysis of the Des Moine
Impeachment Managers Named
Live coverage of Speaker Pelosi’s press conference announcing the impeachment managers, then Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, co-host of the podcast Politics and Polls, and co-author
The Disunited States
F.H. Buckley, George Mason School of Law professor and the author of American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020), offers a modest proposal to split the country into two smaller pieces.