As students skip school in thousands of cities around the world to demand action on climate change, correspondents Bill Weird and Atika Shubert join the program live from the field to set the scene and discuss.

Award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson discusses how sexual abuse can shame many into silence, and why she named her new memoir recounting her own personal experience with sexual abuse, “Shout.” Anderson's first book, "Speak," a teen fiction novel about a rape survivor, was a worldwide phenomenon and sent her on a speaking tour of high schools around the U.S. to talk about sexual assault.

Michel Martin sits down with Arthur Brooks, author of “Love Your Enemies,” who argues America’s political back and forth needs less trolling and more respect.

As a major criminal case highlights alleged corruption in admissions to America’s most elite universities, Larry Summers, the former President of Harvard University and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, discusses the place of privilege in college admissions.

Walter Isaacson sits down with Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, to discuss some of the most complex moral problems facing tech innovators.

Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Todd Douglas Miller, director of “Apollo 11,” to discuss his new documentary which shows us the moment Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, fifty years ago, in an entirely new light.

Walter Isaacson sits down with the first ever female president of Harvard University, Drew Faust, who helped steer the institution through choppy financial waters, and was at the helm when students alleged the admissions office discriminates against Asian Americans, and sued – a case which is still ongoing.

Americans pay more for worse healthcare outcomes than anywhere in the western world. One bold new plan to fix this is ‘Medicare For All,’ which has become a rallying cry for many Democrats – including most presidential contenders in the party. 'Medicare For All' was recently introduced in the House by lead co-sponsors Jayapal and Dingell, who joined Christiane from DC to discuss their proposal.

"Game of Thrones” is about to return for its eighth and final season, and anticipation is high. Lena Headey plays Queen Cersei Lannister, one of the few original characters to have survived the show’s many violent episodes. Headey also is a prominent campaigner for the International Rescue Committee; she recently visited refugee camps in Greece and is calling for better mental health care there.

Hari Sreenivasan sits down with futurist Amy Webb, who warns against the dangers of tech giants and their latest technology in her new book “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.”

Michel Martin sits down with Davarian Baldwin, author and professor of American studies at Trinity College in Connecticut, to discuss why racist practices from the past continue to haunt U.S. politics today.

Walter Isaacson sits down with bestselling author Steven Johnson to discuss his latest book “Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter Most.”

David Wallace-Wells, the author of "The Uninhabitable Earth," joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss why it's time to panic about climate change.

Hari Sreenivasan sits down with actor James Spader to discuss his role as one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives in TV series “The Blacklist.”

Walter Isaacson sits down with former editor of the New York Times Jill Abramson as she fights accusations of plagiarism in her new book, “Merchants of Truth.”

Walter Isaacson sits down with Larry Charles, comedian behind “Seinfeld,” "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "Borat," to discuss his new show "Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy," where he explores what it's like to be a comedian under dictatorships or during wartime.

For over three decades journalist Yevgenia Albats has been a prominent investigative reporter in Russia, and since 2009 she’s been editor of the New Times Magazine, one of the only opposition publications within the country. She sat down with Michel Martin to talk about what it’s like to dare to criticize the Kremlin from the inside.

Alicia Menendez sits down with award-winning author Esmé Weijun Wang, who after being diagnosed with affected-schizophrenia, channeled the news into a bestselling series of essays recounting her journey called “The Collected Schizophrenias.”

Michel Martin sits down with a sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards who has been behind protests by high-profile athletes for more than fifty years.

Christiane Amanpour sits down with acclaimed actress Gillian Anderson to discuss her wide-spanning career, whether that’s television roles in “The X-Files” and Netflix comedy “Sex Education,” or on-stage in London’s West End in a brilliant new production of “All About Eve.”