UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy director Melody Barnes on U.S. domestic policy challenges

Tom Nichols on “Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy”

Center for Transnational Law director Jorge Contesse on the pandemic and human rights

Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali on the false equivalence that normalizes disinformation.

“Hiding in Plain Sight” author Sarah Kendzior discusses how to reverse authoritarianism.

Political scientist Rachel “the doc” Bitecofer on democracy and economic relief.

MeidasTouch cofounders Ben Meiselas and Brett Meiselas on strategies to save democracy.

Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir on recovering from the Trump era

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump’s defiance of the 2020 election results and history

Lincoln Project’s Mike Madrid on Georgia’s Senate run-off election and defeating Trumpism

Civil Rights leader and MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton on the mobilization of Black voters.

Election security advocate Jennifer Cohn on election oversight and handmarked paper trail.

Cong. (Ret.) Katie Hill on her new book “She Will Rise” and the Battle for True Equality.

Republican presidential campaign veteran Stuart Stevens on his new book “It Was All a Lie"

Jack Jackson on “Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right.”

Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman on the pandemic and voting turnout.

Garry Kasparov and Uriel Epshtein of the Renew Democracy Initiative on authoritarian rule.

“Humankind” author and historian Rutger Bregman on hope for a prosocial society.

Lincoln Project’s John Weaver on holding people in power accountable to their oaths.

UVA professor and coauthor of “Making Young Voters,” John Holbein on civic participation