Diane talks with election law professor Edward Foley about what we're seeing and what to watch for as we approach the November 3rd general election.

Diane talks to Pulitzer prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett about the state of the pandemic inside the White House, and across the country.

Diane talks with Edward Luce, U.S. national editor and columnist for the Financial Times, about the chaos engulfing Washington.

Diane speaks with the husband and wife team, Susan Glasser of the New Yorker and Peter Baker of the New York Times, about their new book, "The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III."

Diane talks with Ruth Marcus, deputy editorial page editor and columnist for The Washington Post, about filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Trump administration attempted to end the census count early but a judge has ruled against it. Diane talks about the twists and turns in the 2020 census with Andrew Whitby, author of "The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age."

The Atlantic's James Fallows on how the fight over SCOTUS highlights the media's struggles to cover this political moment.

Diane talks with Kendra Pierre-Louis, senior reporter on the podcast "How To Save A Planet," and a former climate reporter for the New York Times.

Diane asks Mary McCord, legal director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Diane talks with Norm Ornstein, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, about the revelations ain Bob Woodward's new book "Rage," and the other major news events of the week.

Diane talks with Shane Harris, intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post, about Russia's latest disinformation campaign - as well as the one happening domestically.

Diane asks David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic, how the the two candidates have responded to the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and why he believes Trump's efforts to stoke violence will ultimately hurt him come November.

The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib on how the GOP became the party of Donald Trump. His new book is, "We Should Have Seen It Coming."

Now that the political conventions are over, the 2020 presidential campaign enters a new phase. New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni on his takeaways from the last two weeks and how the Republicans and Democrats tried to shape the race.

Author Isabel Wilkerson says a caste system, not racism, is the better prism through which to see and think about black oppression in the United States. Her new book is "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents."

A new report by the Senate Intelligence Committee details ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes explains what's in the report, and why it raises concerns about Russian interference in this year's presidential election.