Longtime Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter joins us to discuss the latest in politics, the midterm elections and The ...

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Star food writer Amanda Hesser is a prolific food writer for The NY Times, former food editor of The NY Times Magazin...

Jim Leach became head of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2009, after 30 years in Congress. A Republican,...

The midterms are behind us and a new political landscape is taking shape. Howard Dean, former Vermont governor, 2004 ...

Sam Tanenhaus is editor of The New York Times Book Review, and his biography of Whittaker Chambers was a finalist for...

Frazier's varied mix of humorous essays, meticulously reported books of non-fiction, and wide-ranging magazine articl...

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Author and activist Michael Pollan's work mixes journalism, environmentalism, animal rights, anthropology, and foodin...

PA Governor Ed Rendell leaves public life this month after 8 years as Governor, a stint as the DNC's head and many ye...

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Lawrence Wright's most recent book, The Looming Tower, won a Pulitzer and set the highest possible bar for reporting ...

Singer-songwriter Chely Wright has been named Best New Female Vocalist and one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People. ...

Matthew Dowd has worked at the heart of American politics for more than 25 years, shaping strategies and campaigns fo...

John Mackey is co-founder & CEO of Whole Foods Market, the largest U.S. natural foods grocer and a growing global pre...

Lawrence Lessig is a celebrated academic, an acclaimed author, and an energetic activist whose great cause is rights ...

Bill Paxton is a gifted actor whose credits include One False Move, Weird Science and Apollo 13, but legions of wanna...

Garrison Keillor is an author, humorist, storyteller and icon of public broadcasting whose weekly radio show, A Prair...

Wyatt Cenac's reports for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart have introduced his work to a wide audience. But his work r...

Diane Wood is a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge respected across the political spectrum as an intellectual hea...

Calvin Trillin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963, and over those many years he's written enough pi...

Gail Collins is a funny and fearless twice-weekly columnist for The New York Times, the first woman ever to serve as ...

Holland Taylor is an award-winning actress, acclaimed for her work on stage, in film and on television, whose one-wom...

Wendy Kopp is founder and CEO of Teach for America, which has recruited the best and brightest college students to be...

Harry Shearer is an Emmy and Grammy-nominated actor and writer whose credits include Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and T...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a celebrated advocate and activist on behalf of the environment, conservation and responsib...

Julian Bond is an activist, academic, author and true icon of the civil rights movement. He helped found the SNCC and...