Diane Rehm: On My Mind

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Diane Rehm’s weekly podcast features newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares about most: what’s going on in Washington, ideas that inform, and the latest on living well as we live longer.

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08.07.2020

In a lawsuit filed this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James said a months long investigation into the National Rifle Association found extensive "fraud and abuse" and she's calling for the powerful gun rights organization to be dissolved. Diane ...

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08.07.2020 Could This Be The End Of The NRA? In a lawsuit filed this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James said a months long investigation into the National Rifle Association found extensive "fraud and abuse" and she's calling for the powerful gun rights organization to be dissolved. Diane ...
08.04.2020 Confronting A History Of White Supremacy In American Christianity Diane talks to Robert P. Jones, author of the new book, "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity."
07.30.2020 The Promise Of A Covid-19 Vaccine: Where Things Stand And What Comes Next Diane talks with Caroline Chen, health care for ProPublica.
07.28.2020 Will The President Accept The Election Results In November? The country's peaceful succession of power is usually a given, but President Trump, when asked if he would accept the election results on Fox News recently, responded "we'll see." What does that mean? How do we prepare? Diane spoke with ...
07.24.2020 The Trump Administration Deploys Federal Forces To U.S. Cities Diane talks with Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times homeland security correspondent, about who these federal agents are and why the move is sparking outrage.
07.21.2020 Why Joe Biden’s Climate Plan Could Unify Democrats In 2020 Diane talks with David Roberts, energy and climate change writer at Vox.com.
07.17.2020 A Big Problem With The U.S. Response To Covid-19? Data Management From data collection to insurance coverage: how our fragmented health care system complicates the country's ability to track the spread of Covid-19. And why the Trump administration's new rule change for how hospitals report information might make it worse. Diane ...
07.14.2020 The U.S. Covid Response: “It’s Chaos. Anyone Who Says Otherwise Isn’t Paying Attention.” Global health expert Laurie Garrett on the United States' bungled response to the pandemic, and why she says time might be running out to contain the virus.
07.10.2020 The Supreme Court Rules On Presidential Powers And Trump’s Taxes Diane talks to David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, about what this week's Supreme Court rulings mean for limits on presidential power and the fate of President Trump's tax returns.
07.07.2020 The Tough Choices Facing Schools This Fall New York Times education reporter Dana Goldstein on whether schools will reopen this fall -- and the impact on students and families if they don't.
07.03.2020 Revisiting America’s Founding Principles In The Age Coronavirus Harvard Professor Danielle Allen on what a democratic response to the pandemic would look like, and why this country has fallen short.
06.30.2020 Understanding China’s Long Quest To Be A Superpower Diane talks with journalist Michael Schuman, author of the new book "Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of The World."
06.26.2020 The Toppling Of Confederate Statues Diane talks with Jamelle Bouie, New York Times opinion columnist, about the removal of Confederate statues and monuments across the South.
06.23.2020 What to Know About Voting in 2020 Constitutional law professor Kimberly Wehle joins Diane to talk about why Americans need to educate themselves about voting - especially right now. Her new book is "What You Need To Know About Voting And Why."
06.19.2020 What We Learned From John Bolton’s Book The New York Times chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, has read John Bolton's new book, “The Room Where It Happened," and shares his thoughts with Diane.
06.16.2020 What’s Wrong With The American Presidency? (Hint: It’s Not Just Trump) Veteran political journalist John Dickerson says even before 2016, the highest office in the land was in trouble. His new book is "The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency."
06.12.2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci On The Threat Of Coronavirus As The Country Reopens Diane talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
05.29.2020 How The Pandemic Will Change The Way We Fly Diane talks with James Fallow, national correspondent for The Atlantic -- and pilot.
05.26.2020 What’s Happened To American Democracy Under Trump Diane talks with David Frum, staff writer at The Atlantic and former speechwriter for George W. Bush. His new book is "Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy.”
05.22.2020 As States Reopen, A New Phase Of Economic Pain Diane talks with Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers economic policy.
05.19.2020 Marlo Thomas And Phil Donahue On What Makes Marriage Work Diane talks marriage and its challenges, both in quarantine and in normal life, with Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue. The couple, married for 40 years, have a new book called "“What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share With ...
05.15.2020 Will College Campuses Reopen This Fall? Diane talks with Jeffrey Selingo, author of the forthcoming book "Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions."
05.12.2020 International Relations In The Age Of Coronavirus Diane asks Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "The World: A Brief Introduction."
05.08.2020 Fake News, The CIA And A Fictional Plot To Disrupt The Global Economy These are the issues at the heart of the new spy novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
05.05.2020 How Deutsche Bank Became The Go-To Financial Institution For Donald Trump Diane talks to David Enrich, author of "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction."
05.01.2020 Coronavirus And The Long Road Ahead Diane talks with Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
04.28.2020 Coronavirus Testing In The U.S. Continues To Fall Short How much more testing is needed? Diane asks Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
04.24.2020 What’s Behind The Protests Against Stay-At-Home Orders These protests have popped up around the country. How coordinated are they? Diane asks Jane Coaston, Vox senior political reporter.
04.21.2020 Measuring The Depth Of Economic Collapse And what should the government response be? Diane talks with Neil Irwin, senior economics correspondent for The New York Times and author of the "Upshot" column.
04.17.2020 Joe Biden And His Work-From-Home Campaign Diane talks with Michael Scherer, national political reporter for The Washington Post.
04.14.2020 Madeleine Albright On Her Life Post-Secretary Of State Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks to Diane about her new memoir, and why she hopes the coronavirus might usher in an era of international cooperation.
04.10.2020 Where Things Stand In The U.S. Effort To Contain And Treat Coronavirus Diane talks with Helen Branswell, infectious diseases reporter for the online health news site, STAT.
04.07.2020 Rationing Care During The Covid-19 Crisis Medical ethicist Arthur Caplan talks with Diane about the difficult decisions hospitals will face treating coronavirus patients.
04.03.2020 The U.S. Economy In Free Fall: What Comes Next? Diane talks with Damian Paletta, economics editor at the Washington Post.
03.31.2020 How To Conduct Elections In The Middle Of A Pandemic How can we run fair and safe elections in the time of social distancing? Diane talks with Ohio State University election law professor Edward Foley.
03.13.2020 Trump’s Leadership In The Time Of Coronavirus Diane speaks with Susan Glasser, staff writer at the New Yorker where she writes a weekly column on life in Trump’s Washington.
03.10.2020 The Economic Toll Of The Coronavirus Diane talks to The Economist's Vijay Vaitheeswaran about the impact of coronavirus on the U.S. economy.
03.06.2020 And Then There Were Two: A Week That Transformed The Democratic Primary Diane talks to Edward Luce of the Financial Times about the week that transformed the Democratic primary into a two man race.
03.03.2020 The U.S. Scrambles to Minimize the Impact of Coronavirus POLITICO's Dan Diamond tells Diane about the faulty tests, slow response time and political infighting that have marked the government's reaction to COVID-19.
02.28.2020 How The Supreme Court Has Contributed To Income Inequality Diane talks with lawyer and journalist Adam Cohen. His new book is "Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America.”
02.25.2020 Russia’s Attempts To Influence 2020 May Already Be Paying Off After a week of mixed messages from the U.S. intelligence community about Russia's plans to influence the 2020 election, Diane talks to Shane Harris of the Washington Post what's really going on.
02.21.2020 Black Voters And The 2020 Race For President Diane talks with Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and an expert in race and electoral politics.
02.18.2020 How Safe Are Our Voting Systems? Diane talks with Rick Hasen, a law professor and expert on election administration. His new book is "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy."
02.14.2020 Trump’s Disinformation Campaign Diane talks to McKay Coppins of The Atlantic about President Trump’s use of disinformation as the 2020 presidential campaign gets underway.
02.11.2020 What We Know – And Are Racing To Understand – About Coronavirus Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, talks about how the country is preparing.
02.07.2020 Impeachment Is Over. What Now? Norman Ornstein joins Diane to give his thoughts on what we learned from the impeachment process, and what it might mean moving forward as the 2020 election season heats up.
02.04.2020 A Chaotic Start To The Democratic Presidential Primary Contest Diane speaks with E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist, about the Iowa caucuses meltdown and the tension in the Democratic party between moderates and progressives.
01.31.2020 How 1850s America Resembles The Country Today In a new book, NPR Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep, takes a look at these pre-Civil War years through the story of one of the period’s most famous couples.
01.28.2020 The Presidency According To Donald Trump How Donald Trump is transforming fundamental ideas about what it means to be president. Diane talks to Lawfare's Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes about their new book, "Unmaking the Presidency."
01.24.2020 Why The Senate Trial Matters (Even If No Minds Are Changed) Frank Bowman, constitutional law professor, joins Diane to discuss the arguments being made on both sides.

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