Original air date
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| January 4, 2015 |
Janet Murguia |
Featured discussion of Murguia's role as president and chief executive officer of National Council of La Raza
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| January 11, 2015 |
Dick Lehr |
Featured discussion of Lehr's book The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War, about the reception of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.
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| January 18, 2015 |
Dr. Anthony Fauci |
Featured discussion of Fauci's role as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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| January 25, 2015 |
Andrew Keen |
Featured discussion of Keen's book The Internet is Not the Answer.
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| February 1, 2015 |
Dr. Frances Jensen |
Featured discussion of Jensen's research on the development of the adolescent brain.
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| February 8, 2015 |
David Brooks |
Featured discussion of "The Sidney Awards", the annual recognition Brooks gives to pieces of long-form journalism.
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| February 15, 2015 |
Thomas Allen Harris |
Featured discussion of Harris's documentary film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.
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| February 22, 2015 |
Jan Jarboe Russell |
Featured discussion of Russell's book The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II.
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| March 1, 2015 |
Anthony Batts |
Featured discussion of Batts's experiences leading the police departments of Long Beach, Oakland, and Baltimore.
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| March 8, 2015 |
David Stewart |
Featured discussion of Stewart's book Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America.
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| March 15, 2015 |
Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman |
Featured discussion of Fugh-Berman's work as head of PharmedOut.
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| March 22, 2015 |
Daniel Bolger |
Featured discussion of Bolger's book Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
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| March 29, 2015 |
Erik Larson |
Featured discussion of Larson's book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
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| April 5, 2015 |
U.S. Senate Youth Program |
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| April 12, 2015 |
Andrew Ferguson |
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| April 19, 2015 |
Jessica Stern |
Featured discussion of Stern's book ISIS: The State of Terror.
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| April 26, 2015 |
Judith Miller |
Featured discussion of Miller's book The Story: A Reporter’s Journey.
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| May 3, 2015 |
Walter Pincus |
Featured discussion of Pincus's role as National Security Columnist for the Washington Post.
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| May 10, 2015 |
Kate Andersen Brower |
Featured discussion of Brower's book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.
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| May 17, 2015 |
Chris Hadfield |
Featured discussion of Hadfield's career in the Canadian Astronaut Corps and his work on the International Space Station.
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| May 24, 2015 |
Michael Witmore |
Featured discussion of Witmore's role as head of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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| May 31, 2015 |
David McCullough |
Featured discussion of McCullough's book The Wright Brothers.
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| June 7, 2015 |
Don Ritchie and Ray Smock |
Featured discussion of Ritchie's experience as Historian of the U.S. Senate and Smock's experience as Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives (Part 1 of 2).
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| June 14, 2015 |
Dr. Patrick O'Gara |
Featured discussion of O'Gara's work in heart surgery and his experiences with the American College of Cardiology. O'Gara is the first cousin of interview host Brian Lamb.
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| June 21, 2015 |
Stephen Puleo |
Featured discussion of Puleo's book The Caning: The Assault that Drove America to Civil War about the Caning of Charles Sumner.
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| June 28, 2015 |
Evan Thomas |
Featured discussion of Thomas's book Being Nixon: A Man Divided.
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| July 5, 2015 |
Don Ritchie and Ray Smock |
Featured discussion of Ritchie's experience as Historian of the U.S. Senate and Smock's experience as Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives (Part 2 of 2).
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| July 12, 2015 |
Kristen Soltis Anderson |
Featured discussion of Anderson's book The Selfie Vote.
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| July 19, 2015 |
Molly Crabapple |
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| July 26, 2015 |
Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville |
Featured discussion of Gordon and Neville's documentary film Best of Enemies.
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| August 2, 2015 |
Robert Kurson |
Featured discussion of Kurson's book Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship.
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| August 9, 2015 |
Kevyn Orr |
Featured discussion of Orr's experiences as emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan.
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| August 16, 2015 |
Phyllis Bennis |
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| August 23, 2015 |
Kurt Deion |
Featured discussion of Deion's visits to the gravesites of all U.S. presidents and vice-presidents.
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| August 30, 2015 |
Vanda Felbab-Brown |
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| September 6, 2015 |
Deborah Rhode |
Featured discussion of Rhode's book The Trouble with Lawyers.
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| September 13, 2015 |
Jennifer Teege |
Featured discussion of Teege's book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past, about her discovery that her grandfather was Nazi concentration camp commander Amon Göth.
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| September 20, 2015 |
Robert Costa |
Featured discussion of Costa's reporting on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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| September 27, 2015 |
Tom Sherwood |
Featured discussion of Sherwood's work in covering political corruption in the Washington D.C. area for WRC-TV.
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| October 4, 2015 |
Tony Mauro |
Featured discussion of Mauro's companion book to the 2015 C-SPAN series Landmark Cases: 12 Historic Supreme Court Decisions.
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| October 11, 2015 |
Gary Hart |
Featured discussion of Hart's book The Republic of Conscience.
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| October 18, 2015 |
Don Cogman |
Featured discussion of Cogman's book Run Mitch, Run.
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| October 25, 2015 |
Amy Chozick |
Featured discussion of Chozick's reporting on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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| November 1, 2015 |
Jay Nordlinger |
Featured discussion of Nordlinger's book Children of Monsters.
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| November 8, 2015 |
Eric Metaxas |
Featured discussion of Metaxas's writings on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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| November 15, 2015 |
Stacy Schiff |
Featured discussion of Schiff's book The Witches: Salem 1692.
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| November 22, 2015 |
Michelle Howard |
Featured discussion of Howard's career in the U.S. Navy and her position as a four-star admiral.
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| November 29, 2015 |
Ronald Feinman |
Featured discussion of Feinman's book Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency.
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| December 6, 2015 |
N/A |
Q&A was preempted by U.S. President Barack Obama's live address on National Security.[2]
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| December 13, 2015 |
Betty Caroli |
Featured discussion of Caroli's book Lady Bird and Lyndon.
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| December 20, 2015 |
Craig Shirley |
Featured discussion of Shirley's book Last Act: The Final Years and Legacy of Ronald Reagan.
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| December 27, 2015 |
Tyler Abell |
Featured discussion of The Drew Pearson Diaries: Vol. II, which was edited by Abell. Abell is also the stepson of the author of the diaries, columnist Drew Pearson.
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