America Are We Ready To Reconcile?

Airing LIVE Wednesday, January 6th, 8-11pm ET.

Join the national conversation with host Brian Lehrer and his guests on the day Congress counts the electoral votes, a process disrupted by violence. With voters so engaged -- and divided -- can we come together as a country to face the challenges of 2021?

Hour 1:  

Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and the author of The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic (Avid Reader Press, 2020)

Heidi Heitkamp, former U.S. Senator (D ND), a contributor for CNBC, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and the founder of One Country Project, an organization aimed at helping Democrats nationally reconnect with rural voters;

Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and the author of the Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
 

Hour 2:  

Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review and the author of The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free (Broadside Books, 2019)

Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (Twelve, 2019) and the forthcoming Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Twelve, April 2021)

Kai Wright, host of the WNYC's "The United States of Anxiety"

Hour 3:

David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic

Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, politics editor at The Grio and author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Join the conversation at 844-745-TALK (8255)!