Daniel Benjamin was co-ordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department under President Obama and had to wrestle first-hand with the United States' blind spot regarding homegrown racist terror. He joins the program alongside Reverend William Barber, a longtime civil rights activist and Protestant minister who was in El Paso just days before the massacre there.

Walter Isaacson speaks to award-winning journalist for The New York Times Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones, about the complex history of desegregation busing and the benefits of integration in schools.

After U.S. Attorney General Barr announced he would reinstate the federal death penalty, Christiane Amanpour first speaks to a proponent of the decision, New York Law School professor Robert Blecker, and then Ruth Friedman, who represents one of the men due to be executed, to get both sides of the debate.

Christiane Amanpour speaks to Gideon Raff, director of the new film “The Red Sea Diving Resort,” which tells the extraordinary true story of undercover agents who used a resort to smuggle refugees to safe, and to Daniel (identity masked), the real-life Mossad agent who was involved in the operation.

Alicia Menendez sits down with Kristen Arnett, author of “Mostly Dead Things,” whose debut novel about family, grief and identity became an overnight bestseller.

As the Trump administration puts Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on its sanctions list, Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, discusses whether the U.S. and Iran are set on a collision course for war.

After two nights of high-stakes democratic debates, Will Jawando, a former Obama White House official, and political strategist Mark McKinnon lay out the state of the 2020 race.

While Turkey was once a bastion of secular, moderate rule, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it’s become increasingly authoritarian. Award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, who has often clashed with the government because of her bold writing, joins the program to discuss.

Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Kwame Onwuachi, author of “Notes from a Young Black Chef,” to discuss how he beat all odds to become part of a new wave of cooking trailblazers.

As two days of talks between American and Chinese negotiators wrap-up, Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, discusses whether America’s China policy has become entirely adversarial.

Healthcare is taking centre-stage in the 2020 race. Andy Slavitt, a former insurance executive who ran Medicare under President Obama, and The New York Times’ healthcare reporter, join the program to discuss whether the party should stake out the center, or reach out for new, bolder ideas.

Michel Martin sits down with journalist Farai Chideya, who opened up about the harrowing adoption process she experienced as she tried to become a mother.

Christiane Amanpour speaks to David Friedman, U.S. ambassador to Israel and one of the architects behind the Trump administration’s economic proposal to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American businessman living through the everyday realities of conflict in his region, discusses whether Jared Kushner’s economic plan is likely to achieve peace in the Middle East.

As presidential hopefuls take the stage in the next round of debates, one key 2020 issue tragically made headlines again: gun violence. Sen Chris Muphy, who has become a leading voice in Congress on the matter since the Sandy Hook massacre in his home state, joins the program to discuss.

Hari Sreenivasan sits down with the co-directors of “The Great Hack,” Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, whose new Netflix film takes a hard look at the ethics of big tech and how data is used to undermine democracies.

As the week starts with significant developments concerning the United States in Russia and Afghanistan, Julia Ioffe, a correspondent for GQ Magazine, and Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S., join the program to discuss.

With American and Chinese negotiators headed to Shanghai, trying to end the year-long trade war biting at both their economies, Peter Navarro, a senior advisor to the President, joins the program.

Walter Isaacson sits down with The Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief Matt Murray as they discuss how to win back trust in the media and the ongoing challenges facing journalists today.

As the premiership of Boris Johnson begins, former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw discusses a critical week in UK politics, as well as one of the new Prime Minister’s most pressing foreign policy challenges: Iran.