Season 2017 - Episode Guide

Episode: 2017-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 2017

Episode: 2017-01-08 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2017

Episode: 2017-01-15 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2017

Episode: 2017-01-22 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2017

Episode: 2017-01-29 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2017

Episode: 2017-02-05 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2017

Episode: 2017-02-12 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2017

Episode: 2017-02-19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2017

Episode: 2017-02-26 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2017

Episode: 2017-03-05 | Airdate: Mar 5, 2017

Episode: 2017-03-12 | Airdate: Mar 12, 2017

Episode: 2017-03-19 | Airdate: Mar 19, 2017

Episode: 2017-03-26 | Airdate: Mar 26, 2017

Episode: 2017-04-02 | Airdate: Apr 2, 2017

Episode: 2017-04-09 | Airdate: Apr 9, 2017

Episode: 2017-04-16 | Airdate: Apr 16, 2017

Episode: 2017-04-23 | Airdate: Apr 23, 2017

Episode: 2017-04-30 | Airdate: Apr 30, 2017

Episode: 2017-05-07 | Airdate: May 7, 2017

Episode: 2017-05-14 | Airdate: May 14, 2017

Episode: 2017-05-19 | Airdate: May 19, 2017

Episode: 2017-05-21 | Airdate: May 21, 2017

Episode: 2017-05-28 | Airdate: May 28, 2017

Episode: 2017-06-04 | Airdate: Jun 4, 2017

Clemson University professor and former chief economist at the FCC Thomas Hazlett talks about his book, ``The Political Spectrum,'' about the history and politics of U.S. communications policy.

Episode: 2017-06-11 | Airdate: Jun 11, 2017

Paul Sparrow, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, talks about the papers and artifacts housed at the location and provides a rare look at FDR's personal book collection.

Episode: 2017-06-18 | Airdate: Jun 18, 2017

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow discusses his book, ``Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,'' which looks at Barack Obama's life prior to his years as president.

Episode: 2017-06-25 | Airdate: Jun 25, 2017

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro talks about On Power, his audio project looking at the evolution and exercise of political power in the United States, as well as the next volume of his multi-part biography of Lyndon Johnson.

Episode: 2017-07-02 | Airdate: Jul 2, 2017

Political commentator Pat Buchanan, who served as a speech writer and senior adviser to President Nixon, discusses his book, ``Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.''

Episode: 2017-07-09 | Airdate: Jul 9, 2017

On the Media's Brooke Gladstone discusses her book ``The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time.''

Episode: 2017-07-16 | Airdate: Jul 16, 2017

Episode: 2017-07-23 | Airdate: Jul 23, 2017

Episode: 2017-07-30 | Airdate: Jul 30, 2017

Episode: 2017-08-06 | Airdate: Aug 6, 2017

Episode: 2017-08-13 | Airdate: Aug 13, 2017

Episode: 2017-08-20 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2017

Episode: 2017-08-27 | Airdate: Aug 27, 2017

Episode: 2017-09-03 | Airdate: Sep 3, 2017

Episode: 2017-09-10 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2017

Adam Andrzejewski discusses Open The Books, a watchdog organization he founded that tracks government spending at the federal, state and local level.

Episode: 2017-09-17 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2017

Former federal prosecutor and George Washington University Law School professor Randall Eliason, who writes the Sidebars blog at Sidebarsblog.com, talks about the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), as well as other prominent cases.

Episode: 2017-09-24 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2017

Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes talks about her work and how it has changed since the rise of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.

Episode: 2017-10-01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2017