The Politics Of Intelligence
December 19, 2016Joshua Rovner, chair of International Politics and National Security at SMU, joins us to talk about what’s at stake if the future president ignores the intelligence community.
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Presidential Appointees
December 12, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about building smooth transitions from one administration to the next with G. Edward DeSeve of the Brookings Institute. He writes about the topic in “The Presidential Appointee’s Handbook.”
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Presidential Perceptions
September 6, 2016This hour, we’ll learn why some presidential names are carved into the bedrock of our country with Talmage Boston, author of “Cross-Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers From the Experts About Our Presidents.”
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The President’s Nuclear Power
August 22, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the power a president has to deploy our nuclear arsenal – and about how those decisions are made – with Stanford political science professor Scott Sagan, an expert on weapons of mass destruction.
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The Modern First Ladies
April 25, 2016This hour, as we broadcast from NPR Headquarters in Washington, we’ll talk about the many roles first ladies have served in the White House with Kate Andersen Brower. She’s the author of “First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies.”
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Remembering Watergate
August 6, 2014This hour, we’ll talk to Former White House Counsel John W. Dean about the scandal that brought down a president, which he writes about in “The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and What He Knew It.”
