Patrick Skinner – ISIS
Patrick Skinner – Losing the War on Terror David talks with the former CIA case officer and Soufan group terrorism analyst, Patrick Skinner, about the declining state of the battle against ISIS.
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Doug Hooker – Atlanta Regional Coalition
Douglas Hooker – Atlanta Regional Commission Doug Hooker is the Executive Director of the Atlanta Regional Commission and tells David just what that organization is and describers it mission. Hooker describes the unique challenge of Atlanta where one metropolitan area is actually divided into 10 counties and dozens of cities.
Deborah Scroggins – Pakistan School Massacre
Deborah Scroggins – Massacre in Pakistan Journalist and author, Deborah Scroggins, talks about the horrific massacre of schoolchildren by the Pakistani Taliban. Scroggins has written extensively about extremism and traveled extensively from Sudan to Afghanistan. She is the author of Emma’s War and Wanted Women: Faith, Lies and the War on Terror.
Daniel Gordis – Menachem Begin
Daniel Gordis – Menachem Begin Gordis is an Israeli-based journalist and author who has written for the likes of The New York Times, The Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Azure, Commentary Magazine and Foreign Affairs. He discusses his new book, Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul.
CJ Lawrence – What if they Gunned Me Down
CJ Lawrence – “If They Gunned Me Down” – Ferguson and Black Identity Lawrence is an attorney and activist who started a national conversation about black identity after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, By using the Twitter hashtag #iftheygunnedmedown
Charles Blow – Fire Shut Up In My Bones
Charles Blow – Fire Shut Up In My Bones New York Times Charles Blow talks to David about his autobiography, Fire Shut Up In My Bones: A Memoir. Blow explores his struggles with racial, sexual, spiritual and intellectual identity.
Phil Hirschkorn – Guantanamo Legal Process
David is joined by former CNN colleague Phil Hirschkorn to talk about the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay and the complicated process of charging them for crimes and processing them in the legal system. In January 2002, prisoners in the “war on terror” began arriving at GTMO and about 180 of these prisoners remain there today. […]
Lawrence Wright – Thirteen Days in September
David welcomes author and “New Yorker” writer Lawrence Wright in to chat about his book Thirteen Days in Septemer: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David. The first of its kind, this book chronicles the secret peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt at Camp David in 1979. Still effective 35 years later, these Camp David […]