JHU Center for Safe and Healthy Schools executive director Odis Johnson on the pandemic.

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

Neuroscientist Rebecca Schwarzlose discusses her new book “Brainscapes.”

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

Science journalist Lauren Aguirre discusses her new book “The Memory Thief."

Cornell University trade economist Eswar Prasad on cryptocurrencies.

Georgia State University professor Mia Bloom on the history of domestic fundamentalism.

Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe on the pandemic’s exacerbation of an exhausted workforce.

Severine Autesserre on her new book “The Frontlines of Peace" and changing the world.

Bioethicist Nir Eyal discusses how equity should be applied to the future of medicine.

Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings on his album, racial justice, and the cosmos of music.

Emma Goldberg on her new book “Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic”

Microsoft Civic Engagement director Sid Espinosa on the need to fix systemic inequities.

Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini on how to ban weaponized data systems.

UC Berkeley Law’s Bertrall Ross on how to reform an unrepresentative U.S. government.