An estimated 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the U.S., and it’s gay black men who are most at risk. Steven W. Thrasher is the Daniel Renberg Chair of Social Justice Journalism at Northwestern University, and he says that while new HIV infection rates are dropping in cities around the U.S., HIV is actually on the rise in rural areas. He speaks with Hari about the crisis.

The treatment by China’s government of its Muslim Uyghur minority has been both shocking and underreported, but it received a lot more attention this weekend thanks to soccer player Mesut Özil, who criticized China’s treatment of the Uyghurs and the subsequent silence of much of the Muslim world. Christiane speaks about the situation with Uyghur activist Ferkat Jawdat.

The two week COP25 climate summit in Madrid closed with key nations dragging their feet over regulating the global carbon market. Despite desperate pleas from activists, carbon cutting was kicked down the road with a compromise that will see new plans negotiated at next year’s summit in Glasgow. Former Secretary of State John Kerry joins the program to discuss this outcome.

Democrats have released a 658 page report that lays out in detail the evidence behind their charges of obstruction of justice and abuse of power against President Trump. The vote may take place in the House this week, but when the trial comes to the Senate, the odds are in the president’s favor. Former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal offers a Republican perspective on the situation.

This week, a trove of documents reveal how U.S. officials allegedly misled the American people about the war in Afghanistan in an effort to conceal fears that America was losing. But now, the Washington Post has obtained more than 2,000 pages of these documents through a FOIA request. Journalist Craig Whitlock has been looking into the papers for the last three years and joins the show to discuss.

With his large majority, Boris Johnson will push the first stage of Brexit through Parliament by January 31st. But what does his promise to “get Brexit done” really look like? Europe will have an important say. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Danish Prime Minister and wife of British Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, joins the program to discuss perspectives from both sides of the English Channel.

As the results of the U.K. general election became clear early on Friday morning, Christiane spoke with a man who knows better than most just what an achievement Boris Johnson’s victory was. Gavin Barwell is a former Member of Parliament and current member of the House of Lords, and he served as chief of staff to former Prime Minister Theresa May. He joins the program to discuss the election.

The dust has settled on the U.K. general election, and it was a decisive win for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party and his unambiguously pro-Brexit stance. Johnson has a comfortable majority, guaranteeing that Brexit will happen. By contrast, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party suffered a catastrophic defeat, its worst since 1935. Christiane analyzes the situation with a panel of experts.

The Atlantic Magazine is devoting its December issue to a special report called “How to Stop a Civil War,” looking at a country they say is “coming apart.” Yoni Appelbaum is a senior editor at the magazine, and his article “How America Ends” explores the demographic shift changing the country’s very fabric and its impact on politics today. He speaks with Hari about a cautionary tale for our times.

Myanmar de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in The Hague this week, defending her country over charges of genocide. Not so long ago, she was considered an icon of democracy, but her international support plummeted after she continued to stand up for her army when it was accused of genocide against the Rohingya population. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein joins the program to discuss her fall from grace.

Today closes the COP25 climate summit in Madrid. Frans Timmermans is in charge of the climate brief in the European Union, and has formulated a “Green Deal” to make his the first climate neutral continent from 2050. He joins the program from COP25 to lay out his plan and explain why the U.S. must do more.

African American musician Daryl Davis has played with some of the leading music legends of the twentieth century, but he has also spent the past thirty years engaging in something quite remarkable: meeting, and in some cases befriending, members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups. He tells Hari how he has helped more than 200 KKK members renounce their ideology.

Today in the U.K., party leaders have been frantically canvassing for votes on the last day of campaigning before Thursday’s general election. Brexit is top of the agenda, with other issues like climate and Britain’s National Health Service not far behind. Conservative politician Jeremy Hunt joins the program in London to discuss where his party stands as the country prepares to vote.

As soon as next week, Congress plans to vote on whether to impeach President Trump. If the vote passes, he will be the third president in American history to be impeached, and the case will move to the Senate for a trial, with the senators acting as jurors. Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown discusses how this affects the American people.

According to federal data, more than a million students in the U.S. public school system are homeless. Christine Quinn is currently president and CEO of “WIN," New York City's largest provider of services to homeless women and children. She joins the program with Daniel Russo, a school principal in the Bronx in one of the poorest congressional districts in the country.

Two weeks after entering the 2020 race for president – and with some catching up to do – billionaire Michael Bloomberg is perhaps not where you’d expect: he’s in Madrid, attending the COP25 climate summit. Christiane speaks exclusively with him in Madrid to discuss climate, impeachment and why he thinks he’s best placed to defeat President Trump.

To assess Michael Bloomberg’s chances and the state of the presidential race, Christiane speaks with political analyst John Avlon, who also happens to be the former speechwriter for another previous New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani.

In August, the disputed territory of Kashmir – split between three nations – was thrown into chaos when India stripped it of its special autonomous status. Soldiers filled the streets, and in the communications blackout it was hard to know exactly what was going on. New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins and journalist Rana Ayyub give Christiane firsthand accounts of the situation.

In his latest book, “Transaction Man," veteran journalist and author Nicholas Lemann offers his take on the ideal of the American Dream – and why, for so many, it’s dying. Power, he says, has shifted away from government and corporations towards the financial sector. He joins Walter to explain the key points of his book.

This year, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman – and Britain’s first black author ever – to win the prestigious Booker Prize. She won it jointly with Margaret Atwood, almost forty years since beginning her career as a writer seeking to elevate unheard voices and narratives. She joins Christiane in London to discuss what her win means to her.