Episode 49: The State of Debate and Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad

Episode 51: David Axelrod on the Cubs and the Candidates, and Kenya Barris on “Black-ish”

Episode 52: Mikhail Baryshnikov, T.C. Boyle, and Germany's Kriegskinder

Episode 53: Putting Trump in the White House, Playing Andrew Bird in the O.R.

Episode 54: Syria, the World’s Nightmare

Barry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents

Susan Orlean on the Trail of Tonya Harding

Don’t Worry, the Robots Can’t Do Your Job—Yet

The Alabama Fallout, and Louise Erdrich on the Future

Nicolás Maduro on the Brink of Dictatorship