Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Rachel Lears, director of “Knock Down the House,” to discuss the year she spent documenting the highs and lows of campaigning against the establishment, by following would-be freshmen in the 2018 midterm elections, including one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

While President Trump ran for office promising to put America first and avoid foreign wars, America is in the midst of a brutal trade war with China and is now edging closer towards armed conflict with Iran. The New Yorker’s Robin Wright joins the program to discuss the troubling state of U.S. foreign diplomacy.

Hatice Cengiz was engaged to Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was brutally murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. She joins the program seven months later to discuss the lack of justice for him and how she’s working tirelessly to make sure those responsible for his murder are held accountable.

Christiane Amanpour speaks to the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, Radhika Jones, about her first year heading the influential magazine, why she’s put diversity front and center, and what Vanity Fair’s role will be in the 2020 race.

Guantánamo Bay, the U.S. military prison, is often seen as the opposite of due process, where detainees in the War on Terror have been held without charge or trial since 2001. "The New Yorker" journalist Ben Taub's latest piece is about one man who was held in Guantánamo Bay for more than a decade. Taub joins Alicia Menendez to discuss the piece "Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret."

Following the Christchurch massacres, neighboring Australia's political discourse has been fraught with talk of xenophobia. As Australia gears up for elections, the public appears to be pushing back, calling for far-right politicians to be expelled from the nation's parliament. Waleed Aly is one of the country's most prominent commentators and joins the program to talk about tolerance.

Actress and playwright Heidi Schreck joins the program to speak about her Tony-nominated play "What the Constitution Means to Me."

Alicia Menendez sits down with Amanda Gorman, who at twenty-one years old is already a published author, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, and founder of an initiative in her hometown of Los Angeles that promotes literacy.

Christiane Amanpour sits down with Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, whose unique leadership style is bucking the politics of division and populism seen elsewhere, and her nation’s ambitious pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2040.

Craig Ferguson, an American late-night TV institution, looks back on his life so far, and how hardship can produce great comedy, as discussed in his new memoir, “Riding the Elephant.”