Michael Isikoff is the Chief Investigative Correspondent at Yahoo! News. He’s also the host of a six-part podcast, Conspiracyland, that explores how a fictional theory grew up around the murder of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old employee of the Democratic National Committee.

LEE: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. That's this country. If that’s not this country, where are we living? That's Lee, one of the eleven people, diverse in age, ethnicity, and political leanings, who spent 2019 with us for what we hoped would be a year-long experiment in civil discourse.

It was January of 2019 that WHQR brought together about a dozen people, diverse in age, ethnicity, and political affiliation. Our objective: to see how the tone and quality of the group’s conversation changed over the course of the year. And to find out whether these people could come to value spending time together.

Fereydoun Nasseri will celebrate his 82 nd birthday in March 2020. He’s a Wilmington resident and business owner who escaped to United States almost 40 years ago (1981) from the second-largest country in the Middle East: Iran.

Lauren Collins has investigated the precise number of roses that go into a bottle of Chanel No. 5. More recently, she covered the gender pay discrepancy scandal that has rocked the BBC and spurred new questions around salary secrecy and reporting requirements in the UK, Iceland, and other parts of the world.

It was the early 1990s when an American creative writing professor set about publishing his second novel. The pivotal event in his book: a 19 th century bloody failure of democracy.

That gap between what happens in the brain and what comes out as behavior is the field of clinical neuropsychology. Its application can range from diagnosing and treating military personnel to people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis or dementia.

If you’re a person of color or ethnic minority, LGBTQ, a veteran, or a person with a disability, you might face a more dire cancer prognosis or struggle more with chronic disease than someone not in these groups.

Sonny Liston, heavyweight boxing champion in the early 1960s, died near the beginning of 1971. The reason listed on the death certificate: natural causes. But nearly 50 years later, the question of whether he was murdered is an open one for some. It’s a question Shaun Assael set out to answer with his book, The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights.

It’s the season of casseroles and pies and heavy meat dishes. It’s the season to loosen dietary restrictions and enjoy the abundance. According to a 2016 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and reported by MSN, the average American's weight increases by almost half a percent over Christmas and just two-tenths of a percent over Thanksgiving. It’s only problematic, according to researchers, because most people don’t lose the weight – and so each year, the scale ticks up.