Comedian W. Kamau Bell heads to Kenya with travel companion, Anthony Bourdain, and as an African-American, sees Africa for the first time. He joins the program to discuss that trip, and how as host of “United Shades of America,” he tries to heal the cultural and racial divide across the country.

U.S. presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin joins the program to discuss her timely new book, “Leadership: In Turbulent Times,” comparing our current political moment with the highs and lows of the past.

Haifaa al-Mansour is the best-known movie director from Saudia Arabia, a country where both women, and film, are notoriously restricted. She sits down with Christiane to discuss the global impact and success of her work.

Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Mount Sinai’s Dr. Prabhjot Singh to discuss the United States’ broken healthcare system and how to fix it.

As Republicans face-off with the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of assault in the 1980s, former federal prosecutor Laura Coates joins the program to discuss why this could be a decisive moment for the #MeToo revolution.

Novelist Khaled Hosseini discusses his illustrated tribute to the refugees who risk everything for a better life.

As President Trump’s hope to broker peace in the Middle East fades, Christiane Amanpour is joined by the U.N. Secretary General António Gutteres in an exclusive interview.

Anand Giridharadas believes we should be a bit more skeptical about embracing billionaires as the change-makers of our era. He joins the program to discuss his new book.

As the Trump administration turns foreign policy on its head, leaders across the world are wondering whether our international institutions can survive. Veteran diplomat William Burns joins the program.

Alicia Menendez interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, known for his blockbuster New York Times essay, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.”

As the #MeToo movement reaches the highest court in America, Oscar-winning actress Sally Field shares her own history of abuse.

Walter Isaacson interviews the former Chief Security Officer of Facebook, Alex Stamos, about Russia’s attack on America’s 2016 election.

Sarah Jessica Parker is best known for the runaway TV-hit “Sex and the City.” She now reveals her work as a brand-new publisher, launching her own imprint, “SJP for Hogarth,” in partnership with Penguin Random House. She and Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of the imprint’s first title, “A Place for Us,” join the program.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the legendary duo who held President Nixon to account, join the program. Forty years after Watergate, they’ve turned their attention to President Trump. They join Christiane Amanpour to discuss whether history is repeating itself.

Michel Martin sits down with award-winning actor, writer and director, Alan Alda, to discuss finding meaning in a creative life well-lived.

As Paul Manafort pleads guilty, we explore uncharted, unsettled legal questions about a sitting president and the law. Veteran professor Alan Dershowtiz questions whether there should even be a special counsel, while his former student Jeffrey Toobin -- who served on the special prosecutor’s investigation of the Iran-Contra affair -- says the investigation is the best way to ferret out the truth.

A new film, “Naila and the Uprising” tells the story of the Palestinian women who led the First Intifada, only to be cut out of the peace process by their own leaders. Filmmaker Julia Bacha and an activist in the First Intifada, Rula Salameh, join the program to discuss the feminist revolution that flourished in that protest.

As Hurricane Florence threatens the Carolina coast, Puerto Rico is still on its knees from last year’s devastating storms. Superchef José Andrés made it his mission to save lives there, serving Puerto Ricans an astonishing three million meals in two months.

Walter Isaacson sits down with John Urschel, a rising star who walked away from a lucrative football career in the NFL to pursue a doctorate in mathematics at MIT.

The torrent of accusations from the Catholic Church keeps coming. Now, for the first time, Pope Francis summons the world’s bishops to meet on sexual abuse. One of America’s most powerful Catholic leaders, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, joins the program.