Where do Iranians who have stood up to their nation’s ruthless regime get their courage? For answers, I reached out to Azar Nafisi, author of the internationally acclaimed memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, following Iran’s traditional 40-day mourning period for the thousands of people killed during January’s nationwide demonstrations.
Robert Malley has been a U.S. negotiator in multiple Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, a U.S. Special Envoy to Iran, and a White House point person in the campaign against the Islamic State. He joined me for this insider’s Middle East briefing and a preview of his new book, Tomorrow is Yesterday.
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos has spent years diving deep into the world of the ultra-rich. His jaw-dropping reporting, in The Haves and Have Yachts, sheds light on why so much wealth in America is concentrated in the hands of so few.
Journalist Julia Ioffe, of Puck.News, began her American journey as a seven-year-old Soviet-Jewish refugee. Now a go-to expert on Russia, she joins me to unmask Vladimir Putin and more
The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood is an intrepid war reporter, a polymath, and a linguist, who goes “where everything’s a mess . . . and things are changing really, really fast.” We begin with him hitchhiking through Iraq
Imani Perry, National Book Award winner and Professor of African American Studies at Harvard, lives and writes at the intersection of dreams deferred and hope. After listening to her, hope prevails.
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Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, war correspondent, and devoted parent, on his high-risk life journey to “escape the tyranny of self-interest.”
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Editor’s Note:This piece was published on CNN.COM, March 22, 2009, at the tail end of the global financial crisis known as the Great Recession. Michael SchulderCNN Senior Executive Producer Tonight, Barack Obama…