America at a Crossroads
America at a Crossroads is proud to present an esteemed roster of guests and moderators to discuss the state of American democracy and the very real challenges facing it today. Past guests and moderators have included Congressman Adam Schiff, Congresswoman Karen Bass, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, Congressman Adam Kinzinger, George F. Will, Patt Morrison, Warren Olney, Madeleine Brand, Bill Kristol, David Axelrod, James Carville, Jonathan Greenblatt, and many more.
Episodes
178 episodes
Dr. Anthony Fauci with Patt Morrison | A Lifetime of Public Service: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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58:33
Nicholas Kristof with Warren Olney | Finding Hope in Stressful Times
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously sinc...
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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56:49
Ehud Olmert and Nasser Al-Kidwa with Larry Mantle | Two Former Leaders - An Israeli and a Palestinian - Offer Path to Peace
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously sinc...
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Season 3
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Episode 70
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57:01
David Frum with Larry Mantle | Trump Won: Now What?
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously sinc...
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Season 3
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Episode 69
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56:37
David Leonhardt with Madeleine Brand | How the Democrats have lost the working class
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously sinc...
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Season 3
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Episode 68
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1:00:18
Amb. Michael McFaul with Larry Diamond | The Election is Over: What Do the Results Mean for Ukraine, the Middle East, and U.S. Foreign Policy?
The Election is Over: What Do the Results Mean for Ukraine, the Middle East, and U.S. Foreign Policy?MICHAEL McFAUL served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for R...
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Season 3
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Episode 67
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1:02:27
Jason Van Tatenhove with Larry Mantle | The perils of extremism: How I left the Oath Keepers and why we should be concerned about a future civil war.
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Season 3
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Episode 66
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57:39
Ron Brownstein with Warren Olney | 2024 Election Postmortem: Where do we go from here?
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Season 3
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Episode 65
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56:33
Lynn Vavreck and Norm Ornstein with Patt Morrison | Election 2024: Analysis of two Experts on Election Eve
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Season 3
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Episode 64
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56:08
Anne Applebaum with Larry Mantle | Countdown to 2024: The election's impact on foreign wars, foreign policies and America's world standing
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously sinc...
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Season 3
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Episode 63
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56:30
Celinda Lake and Paul Maslin with Madeleine Brand | Countdown to 2024: What are the polls telling us and are they right?
America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America’s democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously sinc...
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Season 3
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Episode 62
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1:02:26
Jennifer Rubin with Warren Olney | Countdown 2024: A Keen Observer's Perspective
Jennifer Rubin is an American political commentator who writes opinion columns for The Wa...
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Season 3
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Episode 61
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1:02:51
Harry Dunn with Patt Morrison | A Harrowing Account of January 6 and Thoughts About January 2025
During this America at a Crossroads program, Patt Morrison, veteran LA Timescolumnist and winner of a Pulitzer, many Golden Mikes and multiple EmmyAwards, will engage January 6 Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn in conversationabout ...
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Season 3
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Episode 60
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57:36
Ron Brownstein with Larry Mantle | Election 2024: The Final Countdown
This America at a Crossroads program will feature Ron Brownstein,one of the country’s foremost political journalists and analysts, inconversation with award winning veteran NPR-affiliate LAist radio talkshow journalist, Larry Mantle...
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Season 3
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Episode 59
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59:15
Rick Hasen with Warren Olney | 2025: What are the chances of a peaceful transition of power?
RICK HASEN is one of the country’s foremost experts on Americanelection law, campaign finance, voting rights, voter suppression, andtransitions of power. In conversation with the highly awardedbroadcast journalist Warren Olney, Rick...
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Season 3
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Episode 58
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58:59
Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy with Patt Morrison | 2024 Election Update: A Democrat's and a Republican's Views
BOB SHRUM AND MICHAEL MURPHY are arguably amongst the mostrespected and experienced political analysts and pundits of our time.Both have extensive experience working on numerous presidentialcampaigns over the past many decades. In c...
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Season 3
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Episode 57
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59:05
Ken Burns with Patt Morrison | Ken Burns and the American Story
Aside from being America’s most prolific, acclaimed, and respecteddocumentary film maker, Ken Burns is an astute observer ofAmerican political life, both past and present. Known for his doggedcommitment to pursuing the truth through...
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Season 3
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Episode 56
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59:43
Aluf Benn with Madeleine Brand | Israel in Crisis Briefing #19
Since 2011, Aluf Benn has been the Editor in Chief of Haaretz, thelongest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. Haaretz,founded in 1918, describes itself as “an independent daily newspaperwith a broadly liberal outlook bot...
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Season 3
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Episode 55
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1:01:00
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser with Madeleine Brand | Election 24: An Analysis By Two Experts
This program features the dynamic duo of two renowned journalistswho have covered national politics, elections and presidencies fordecades. They will be discussing their observations and analysis ofthe 2024 Elections in conversation...
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Season 3
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Episode 55
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59:56
Dana Stroul and Michael Singh with Warren Olney | Israel in Crisis Briefing #18
The featured speakers for this program, Dana Stroul and Michael Singh,both previously advised American presidents and secretaries of state onthe Middle East. They are now on the faculty of The Washington Institute(TWI), for Near Eas...
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Season 3
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Episode 54
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1:01:41
Sarah Longwell and Simon Rosenberg with Larry Mantle | A Closer Look at the 2024 Elections
Sarah Longwell, a Republican political strategist, is the founder andproducer of The Bulwark, a conservative anti-Trump news and opinionwebsite launched in 2018. Together with Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes,Sarah has consistently pr...
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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58:40
Gidi Grinstein with Rabbi Ed Feinstein | Israel in Crisis Briefing #17
Gidi Grinstein has spent most of his career promoting Israeli-Palestinianand regional peace in the Middle East. In his recent book (In)Sights:Peacemaking in the Oslo Process thirty Years and Counting, Grinsteinilluminates systemic i...
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Season 3
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Episode 52
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59:51
Aaron David Miller with Larry Mantle | Israel in Crisis Briefing #16
Since October 7, America at a Crossroads has invited a variety of veterandiplomats, journalists, and scholars to provide occasional briefings aboutthe situation in the Middle East, focusing on the hostages, the Gaza War,and on US en...
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Season 3
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Episode 51
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58:29
Larry Diamond and Jeffrey Koseff with Larry Mantle | "It's in the air": Antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on college campuses, and how to address it.
The severe uptick in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on collegecampuses since the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel has been widelydocumented. In late 2023, Stanford University’s President appointed ourAmerica at a Crossroads...
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Season 3
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Episode 50
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