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28 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Thu, Oct 4, 2012
Gloria Steinem is the most famous feminist in the world: a pioneering activist and best-selling author who co-founded Ms. magazine 40 years ago and is no less enthusiastic about or energized by the fight for gender equality today.
Episode 2
Thu, Oct 11, 2012
Joe Nick Patoski is a veteran magazine writer, radio personality and biographer. His latest book is The Dallas Cowboys: The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America.
Episode 3
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
Diane Ravitch is one of the country's leading thinkers on education. She's a bestselling author and a former Assistant Secretary of Education, and she routinely speaks out when education is in the news.
Episode 4
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
Laurie Anderson is an experimental musician, composer, performance artist and artist whose embrace of technology has been a defining aspect of her extraordinary career.
Episode 5
Thu, Nov 1, 2012
David Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter and best-selling author whose biographies of Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi and Roberto Clemente are both definitive and compelling. His latest is Barack Obama: The Story.
Episode 6
Thu, Nov 8, 2012
Jeffrey Toobin is a New Yorker staff writer CNN legal analyst whose second book on the nation's nine most important robed jurists has just been published. It's called The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court.
Episode 7
Thu, Nov 15, 2012
Bob Balaban is an actor, director and producer whose credits include Midnight Cowboy, Close Encounters and all of Christopher Guest's movies. He's also an occasional author of children's books.
Episode 8
Thu, Nov 22, 2012
Newt Gingrich is a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and author or co-author of 18 non-fiction books and 10 novels, including the new Victory at Yorktown.
Episode 9
Thu, Dec 6, 2012
Martin O'Malley is the 61st Governor of Maryland, the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, the former mayor of Baltimore, and, who knows, maybe the future President of the United States.
Episode 10
Sun, Dec 2, 2012
Fran Lebowitz is an author, humorist and social critic. Evan says her long-ago collections of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, changed his life. And they remain must-reads for all kinds of aspiring writers today.
Episode 11
Thu, Dec 20, 2012
David Cross is an Emmy Award-winning writer, comedian and film and TV actor whose credits include Arrested Development, Mr. Show with Bob and David and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.
Episode 12
Wed, Jan 9, 2013
Naomi Wolf is a best-selling author whose writings on gender equality and female sexuality put her squarely in the center of so many conversations coursing through politics today. Her latest book is Vagina: A New Biography.
Episode 13
Thu, Feb 7, 2013
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2009. She is the first Latino to serve on the country's highest court, and the third woman. Her memoir, My Beloved World, has just been published.
Episode 14
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
Michael Oren is the American-born Ambassador of Israel to the United States. He is also a best-selling author and historian. Oren is in meetings between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Episode 15
Thu, Feb 21, 2013
Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. His most recent book is Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief.
Episode 16
Wed, Mar 20, 2013
Kasim Reed is the 59th Mayor of Atlanta and served as a key surrogate for President Obama during the 2012 presidential election.
Episode 17
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
Chris Hayes is an MSNBC host. He's hosted the weekend morning show Up since 2011. April 1 he'll move to primetime, hosting All In w/ Chris Hayes. He is the author of Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.
Episode 18
Thu, Apr 4, 2013
Actor Michael McKean was introduced to TV audiences as Lenny on Laverne & Shirley. McKean is probably best known for his role in This is Spinal Tap, which he also helped write. He recently starred in The Best Man on Broadway.
Episode 19
Thu, Apr 11, 2013
David Carr writes about media and culture for the New York Times' Media Decoder blog. He was a main character in the 2011 documentary "Page One" about the Times. His memoir, The Night of the Gun, was published in 2008.
Episode 20
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
Annette O'Toole is a character actress with over 40 years of stage and screen credits, including 48 Hours and Smallville. She was nominated for an Oscar for a song she wrote with her husband, Michael McKean for the film A Mighty Wind.
Episode 21
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
Comedian, writer and musician Fred Armisen is perhaps best known for his role on Saturday Night Live, now performing in his ninth season. He famously played then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. Armisen also stars in, and writes, Portlandia, a show he created on IFC with co-star Carrie Brownstein.
Episode 22
Thu, May 2, 2013
Dan Balz is Chief Correspondent at the Washington Post, covering national politics. He previously served as National Editor at The Post, and as White House correspondent. Balz has also written two books.
Episode 23
Thu, May 9, 2013
Sebastian Junger is a journalist and filmmaker. He authored two best-selling books and his film Restrepo was nominated for an Oscar. Junger's newest film is Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington.
Episode 24
Thu, May 16, 201327 mins
Larry Wilmore is "Senior Black Correspondent" for The Daily Show, and a television writer and producer. He started his career as an actor and stand-up comic before he began writing in the early 90s on shows like In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Episode 25
Thu, May 23, 2013
Tony Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony and Emmy award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose credits include Lincoln, Munich and Angels in America.
Episode 26
Wed, May 29, 201327 mins
Marc Morial is President and CEO of the National Urban League, the nation's largest civil rights organization. He assumed that post in 2003, after Morial serving as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994-2002.
Episode 27
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
Actor and comedian Tony Hale is best known for playing Buster Bluth on Arrested Development. Recently he was nominated for an Emmy for his role as Gary Walsh, the bumbling Body Man to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on HBO's "Veep."
Episode 28
Thu, Sep 5, 2013
U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has represented California's 12th District, including most of San Francisco for 25 years. Leader Pelosi was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2007-2011.