No stranger to New York, Dr. Kyung Wha Kang, the former foreign minister of Korea, has hit the ground running at the Asia Society. She tells Jim of her goals for the society, and candidly discusses US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific region.

Richard Lifton, the 11th president of Rockefeller University, the nation’s leading research institution located in New York City, tells Jim about the latest advances in scientific research and the never-ending search for a cure.

Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the risk consultancy, Eurasia Group, as well as the popular host of GZERO World which people can see on public television, in a thought-provoking interview analyzes for us the top 10 global risks this year. Heading the list is unsurprisingly the presidential election looming on the horizon, with the internal political challenges we facing us at home.

Barbara McQuade, former US Attorney for Michigan, is author of a new book, which has swept the nation, this week #3 on the New York Times best seller list. The book is entitled “Attack from Within—How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.” In the book, she shows how dictators spew disinformation online, and use it to seize power. We discuss how, if possible, we can overcome the danger of disinformation in the upcoming November election.

I sit with Louise Mirrer, the guiding spirit of the New-York Historical Society for the past two decades. Under her leadership, the museum has reinvigorated its commitment to greater public understanding of history and its relevance with blockbuster exhibitions about slavery and the Vietnam War.

Donna Shalala, for eight years Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, was later elected to Congress from Florida. An staunch advocate for reproductive rights and a fierce opponent of hate speech on campus, she has spent most of the past two decades, in higher education. Now, she ponders her future as interim president of the New School.

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Thomas Graham, a Russia expert and author of the terrific new book, "Getting Russia Right," was one of three former national security officials to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in secret back channel talks last April, possibly paving a way forward to end the war in Ukraine. He tells Jim why our post-Soviet effort to partner with Russia failed.

Andrew Roberts, one of the greatest biographers of the English language today, has co-authored his 20th book with General David Petraeus, called "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine." He tells Jim how warfare has developed over the last eight decades, and applies the history to what we see today in Gaza.

Henry Timms, the tremendously effective CEO at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, tells Jim he will never stop innovating. Since taking over in 2019, he has accomplished the renovation of David Geffen Hall, and expanded programming to include concerts of hip-hop, and even an LGBTQ mariachi group. Henry is having much fun at Lincoln Center, and so has the New York community.

New Yorkers overwhelmingly elected Andrew Cuomo as their governor. His approval rating soared to 77 percent. The next year, he found himself hounded out of office by political enemies, accusing him of sexual harassment and covering up the number of COVID deaths in nursing homes. Melissa DeRosa, his former chief of staff, tells Jim of a political cabal that was out to get her boss.