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Nov 01

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Why this author says it’s ‘highly probable’ Russian interference swung the 2016 election

Did the involvement of Russian trolls and hackers swing the 2016 presidential election? Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of “Cyberwar,” believes it is “highly probable” that they did. She joins Judy Woodruff to discuss her research on how the Russians found…

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Oct 23

Watch 7:31
Sen. Sasse on the rise of ‘anti-tribes’ and a growing American tolerance for lies

In his new book “Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb, reflects on a growing “rootlessness” in America as local communities erode and our dependence on isolating technology grows. Judy Woodruff sits down with…

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Oct 16

Watch 7:15
Michael Beschloss chronicles American ‘Presidents of War’

When it came to involving the nascent republic in military conflict, one of the founding fathers’ biggest fears was that American presidents would be reckless and aggressive to suit their own agendas. Judy Woodruff sits down with presidential historian Michael…

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Oct 09

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Doris Kearns Goodwin on what today’s leaders can learn from past ‘turbulent times’

In her new book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explores the trajectories of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, arguing that for all four of them, “at some point, ambition for…

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Oct 08

Watch 7:18
Michael Lewis traces the ‘gutting of the civil service’ under Trump

Bestselling author Michael Lewis says the idea that civil servants are “lazy or stupid or dead weight on the society is...the most sinister idea alive in this country right now." In his new book, “The Fifth Risk,” Lewis examines how…

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Oct 01

Watch 7:14
‘Earning the Rockies’ author Robert Kaplan answers your questions

Robert Kaplan, author of our September pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer questions from readers, plus Jeff announces October’s book.

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Sep 10

Watch 7:43
Concussions, Trump, and the NFL’s biggest dangers to tackle

By some measures, the NFL is in great shape. But the sport is also wrestling with the long-term health threats for players, as well as attacks by President Trump over high-profile political protests. To write his new book "The Big…

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Sep 03

Watch 6:42
New novel ‘A Terrible Country’ rediscovers Russia and its paradoxes

In the new novel "A Terrible Country," young, Soviet-born Andrei Kaplan is struggling in his academic career and getting over a breakup, when he returns to Russia to care for his aging grandmother. Jeffrey Brown talks with author Keith Gessen…

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Aug 14

Watch 9:17
A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and ‘so much pain to process’

By Jeffrey Brown, Mike Fritz

In “Dopesick,” journalist and author Beth Macy takes readers to the front lines of the opioid epidemic in Roanoke, Virginia, and other nearby communities, telling the story of grieving families, exhausted medical workers and convicted heroin dealers. Jeffrey Brown reports…

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Aug 13

Watch 12:30
Omarosa: I never signed that ‘draconian’ White House nondisclosure agreement

By Judy Woodruff, Stephanie Kotuby, Matt Loffman

“A racist, a bigot and a misogynist.” Those are just some of the explosive claims made against President Trump by his long-time associate and former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman in her new book, “Unhinged.” She joins Judy Woodruff…

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