You win wars with armies. Bombs don’t work. And they only piss off the people you bomb for another generation. (Iran) Nuclear weapons scholar Ward Wilson joins me. 

Who do you talk to when you have just watched the best tennis match in history? Your local tennis pro of course. Breaking down Sinner vs. Alcaraz at the French Open with Daron Forohar.

As Trump attacks Harvard, small liberal arts colleges reassess their purpose. The president of Amherst College says this reckoning has been coming for a long time. The answer is a return to core values of critical thinking and hard truths. Amherst President Michael Elliott is one of the leaders and breaks it down.

How does an ancient game with sticks tell us about ourselves? The story of how we stole the game from the native people and then stopped them from playing teaches us a deep and abiding lesson about ourselves and our crimes. Thanks to some champions of a cause, native people might play in the Olympics. The wrong can never be righted. But we can learn our history and move in a better direction. Author S.L. Price from Sports Illustrated spent seven years and 350 interviews to write The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse. The question is: Which country?

Call it what you will. The new book FIGHT - Inside the Wildest battle for the White House - has the first draft of history on why Biden ran again and how his handlers kept the truth about his age from getting out and handing the election to Trump. It is a decision we will be living with for a generation. Co-Author Amie Parnes joins Kevin for the details.

⁠Amie's book, FIGHT, available now.

You don’t have to love basketball to appreciate what Morgan Valley has done in her playing and coaching career. But you need to listen closely or you’ll miss it.

The top political advisor to Bernie Sanders says Chuck Schumer was wrong on the budget bill and wrong on the way forward. It’s not about Left vs. Right. It's about Top vs. Bottom. Will anyone listen?

The Jan. 6 effort to overturn an election and KILL the vice president and speaker the House seems so long ago. And Trump has effectively made us forget. But Mark Bowden has not forgotten. The author of Blackhawk Down and many other deeply reported books put Jan. 6 and its aftermath into one comprehensive book. It has all the receipts. To understand what’s happening now when the entire leadership of th government believes the Biden win was stolen, you have to go back to Jan. 6. Bowden takes us through the highlights and leaves the details for the book - a great read.

The award-winning documentary filmmaker has faith (some) that the system can withstand Trump and Musk. That’s a lot for a a guy who makes a living examining the abuse of power by powerful people - Trump, Lance Armstrong, ENRON, Elizabeth Holmes and Scientology. Next up? Elon Musk.

Trump-Musk is unprecedented, lawless, and dangerous. But we knew that. What exactly constitutes the coup? What steps do citizens take? Constitutional scholar and professor Austin Sarat has some answers - not magic bullets, but a dedication to democracy by speaking out and getting involved. Sarat is less gloomy than most and sympathizes with the college students of today. And discusses how the current situation has changed his teaching.