Specials

Wikimedia Foundation’s Katherine Maher on preserving truth in a post-factual democracy
Literacy and Fake News

Mayor Peter Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana on democratic values of the American Midwest
Dreams of the Heartland

Author Hesh Kestin on U.S.-Israel relations; moving from foreign correspondent to novelist
Intelligence of Imagination

Chair of Presidential Studies at Texas A&M George Edwards III on President Trump.
An Unprecedented Presidency

'The Americans' and the New Cold War
Creator of FX's The Americans Joe Weisberg on Russian espionage, fact and fiction.
'The Americans' and the New Cold War

W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair Jason Franklin on how to reverse inequality.
Awakening the Rustbelt

Ambassador of the UAE to Russia Omar Saif Ghobash on his book "Letters to a Young Muslim"
A Peaceful Worldly Islam

Constitutionalism vs. Trumpism
Former presidential candidate Evan McMullin talks about his conservative manifesto.
Constitutionalism vs. Trumpism

Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on safeguarding rights in a digital world
Encryption and Liberty

Ken Roth, executive director, Human Rights Watch, on securing liberty at home and abroad.
Watchdog of Humanity

Jean Bordewich, Hewlett Foundation and Betsy Wright Hawkings of Democracy Fund on gridlock
Making Congress Great Again

A Free Press, If You Can Keep It
Joel Simon, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, on challenges to a free press in 2017
A Free Press, If You Can Keep It

Jeffrey Herbst, president and CEO of the Newseum, talks about the future of free speech.
Deliberating the News

Carole Petersen, director of the Matsunaga Institute, on free thought in the Asia-Pacific.
Rights In China & Hong Kong

Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, on how social media is enabling bigotry
Incubators of Hate

Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, on the Freedom of Information Act
Declassifying the Presidency

Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic, on political correctness on the American college campus
Sanitizing Speech?

Peter Bale of the Center for Public Integrity on disclosures in the public interest.
Leaks With Integrity

Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Center at Columbia U, on protecting democracy
Defending the First Amendment

Katherine Cramer talks about her groundbreaking study of U.S. electoral polarization.
The Politics of Resentment

Adult entertainer Asa Akira on her book Dirty Thirty and the state of pornography today.
Sexuality as Free Expression

Kenneth Wollack, of the National Democratic Institute, on civil society amid incivility.