Please, Go On with James Hohmann

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Washington Post columnist James Hohmann chats with the voices behind the viewpoints. Hohmann sits down each week with the author of a compelling or unexpected guest column for The Post’s Opinions section. Together, they unpack arguments that are shaping the public conversation about issues of importance. “Please, Go On” features marquee names, as well as everyday people with original perspectives. New episodes released Fridays.

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12.07.2022 Check out "The 7" On The Post’s new podcast, "The 7," host Jeff Pierre takes you through the seven most important and interesting stories of the day. It's a way to get caught up in just a few minutes. It comes out every weekday ...
04.01.2022 Marco Rubio thinks China is complicit in Russia’s war on Ukraine Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joins James Hohmann for a conversation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the threat posed by China.
03.25.2022 Marie Yovanovitch on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine weighs in on Vladimir Putin’s war against the country, as well as Donald Trump’s past attacks on her character.
03.18.2022 Gavin Grimm on the fight for transgender rights A number of red states have moved to limit transgender rights in recent months, most notably Texas. With that in mind, we return to a conversation from last summer with activist Gavin Grimm — at a watershed moment in the ...
03.11.2022 Author John Green reflects on the legacy of global health giant Paul Farmer Paul Farmer, a global health advocate and physician whose work saved millions of lives, died in Rwanda last month at age 62. Author John Green, a mentee of Farmer’s, discusses the physician’s life and remarkable legacy.
03.04.2022 Adam Schiff on threats both global and domestic As Russia intensifies its invasion of Ukraine, James Hohmann sits down with the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to discuss the U.S. response, and what’s next in the Jan. 6 inquiry.
02.24.2022 A Ukrainian responds to Russia’s attack As Russia attacked her country, Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk spoke with James Hohmann about the long struggle for an independent Ukraine.
02.18.2022 ‘Abbott Elementary’s’ Sheryl Lee Ralph on education, acting and activism Sheryl Lee Ralph, who you might know as “Abbott Elementary’s” Barbara Howard, joins guest host Michele Norris for a conversation about finding comedy — and searing critique — in the American education system.
02.11.2022 Forced into marriage at the age of 15 Sasha Taylor was only 15 years old when she was forced into marriage in Arizona. She escaped and went on to become an FBI analyst. Now she’s advocating for reform at the state and federal levels.
02.04.2022 ‘Dopesick’ writer proposes a way out of the opioid crisis Beth Macy, the author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America,” argues that harm-reduction practices and safe consumption sites can provide a path out of the opioid epidemic.
01.28.2022 A Jewish refugee from Iran on why it’s hard to fight bigotry in the U.S. After an attack this month at a U.S. synagogue, Roya Hakakian reflects on how antisemitic acts shake immigrants especially hard.
01.21.2022 A power struggle in Kazakhstan This month, Kazakhstan faced some of the worst violence it’s seen in decades. But professor and native Kazakh Nargis Kassenova contends that, in spite of a deployment of Russian troops, the country will not return to Moscow’s fold.
01.13.2022 ‘Canceling school is not sustainable’ A professor and parent of three, Jackie Spinner says that she’s out of reserves when it comes to school cancellations two years into the pandemic.
01.06.2022 Could a coup succeed in 2024? On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton warns that we could be headed for another insurrection in 2024.
12.30.2021 A holiday message from James Host James Hohmann reflects briefly on the first six months of the podcast, and looks ahead to 2022.
12.22.2021 A doctor’s advice for limiting holiday omicron risk Public health expert Dr. Leana Wen explains why those who are vaccinated, boosted and tested should keep their holiday plans.
12.17.2021 A ‘ghost gun’ killed his daughter. He’s fighting back. Two years ago, Bryan Muehlberger’s daughter, Gracie, was killed in a shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif. She was 15 years old.
12.10.2021 'The house that Fred built': The life and legacy of Fred Hiatt Post legends come together to discuss the legacy of Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt after his untimely death.
12.03.2021 The radicalization of the Supreme Court Ruth Marcus, The Post's deputy editorial page editor, offers insight into the challenge to Roe v. Wade and explains how a conservative "rule of six" is poised to reshape the nation.
11.24.2021 The team behind Glenn Youngkin's victory in Virginia The pollster and strategists for Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) discuss how they pulled off an upset victory, what it says about Virginia and how their model might be replicated in 2022.
11.19.2021 Larry Summers says inflation will get worse before it gets better Former treasury secretary Larry Summers has long sounded the alarm over inflation. As prices climb, Summers warns that failing to address an overheating economy could spell defeat for Biden in 2024.
11.12.2021 A cold-case investigator on rage and rising homicides Liz Thomson, former head of Albuquerque's homicide unit, recently returned to the police department as a cold-case investigator. She weighs in on the worsening murder rate, and how rage plays a role.
11.05.2021 Mitt Romney says it's filibuster or bust The Republican senator and 2012 presidential nominee voted twice to impeach Donald Trump. He warns that ending the filibuster could be catastrophic for the Senate and give a potential future Trump presidency unrestrained power.
10.29.2021 A queer author caught in culture war crossfire Maia Kobabe's memoir "Gender Queer" is being challenged in school districts across the country, including in Northern Virginia.
10.22.2021 The burden of being the first Black anything Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote about the life and legacy of Colin Powell, who in four decades of service, helped shape U.S. national security.
10.15.2021 Lessons from a writer who spent 15 years pretending to be a White guy Until quite recently, Annabelle Tometich wrote all her restaurant reviews under the pseudonym Jean Le Boeuf. She spoke with James about what that double life taught her about White privilege and her own racial identity.
10.08.2021 Our constitutional crisis is here Robert Kagan warns that the United States faces its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War.
10.01.2021 How to stop the coming crisis with North Korea North Korea is testing new missiles. Victor Cha — a hardliner — encourages U.S. diplomacy in response. A foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush, Cha advocates for humanitarian assistance.
09.24.2021 'Compassion fatigue.' A doctor is tired of Southerners making excuses to not get vaccinated. Mississippi has one of the lowest vaccination rates and highest death rates from covid-19. A palliative care doctor pleads with fellow Southerners to get vaccinated before it's too late.
09.17.2021 The secret to a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan? Educated girls. Shabana Basij-Rasikh co-founded the only boarding school for girls in Afghanistan. Now, as the school year begins, she reflects on the power of educated women.
09.10.2021 It's been 20 years since 9/11. Are we safer now? In a special 9/11 anniversary edition, a counterterrorism expert argues that the threat of foreign terrorists attacking the United States at home has vastly diminished. Plus, a writer who lost her father on Sept. 11, 2001 shares her pain after ...
09.03.2021 John Grisham wants to keep innocent people out of prison The best-selling crime novelist sits on the board of the Innocence Project, and believes our country should be doing more to prevent wrongful convictions.
08.27.2021 John Bolton wants U.S. to get tough on Pakistan after fall of Afghanistan Trump's former national security adviser says the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan presents an opportunity for the United States to confront Pakistan over its ties to the Taliban and nuclear stockpile.
08.20.2021 An Afghan journalist's escape from Kabul Nasrin Nawa, an Afghan journalist, narrowly escaped the Taliban's takeover of Kabul. But leaving her home country also meant leaving her parents — and sister — to an uncertain future.
08.17.2021 Your questions about the delta variant answered, with Dr. Leana Wen In a bonus episode, Post readers and listeners ask public health expert Dr. Leana Wen about the delta variant, vaccine hesitancy and how we protect kids as they return to school.
08.13.2021 Why a Florida superintendent is defying DeSantis on masks Carlee Simon, superintendent of Alachua County Public Schools, defends her district's decision to require masks, even if it means losing her own salary.
08.06.2021 Norman Lear, 99, reflects on Archie Bunker in the age of Donald Trump Fifty years after “All in the Family” premiered, the legendary television writer and producer laments how many headlines seem drawn from the past.
07.30.2021 Why employers should do away with college degree requirements Byron Auguste, CEO of [email protected] and former jobs czar under the Obama administration, joins James for a conversation about degree discrimination in the workforce.
07.23.2021 The FBI's failures to investigate Larry Nassar Former gymnast Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar of assault, is now a lawyer and advocate. As the Olympics begin, she reacts to the Justice Department's inspector general report on the many warnings the FBI ignored.
07.16.2021 The war on truth is raging. Here's how we end it. How do you debate someone who's operating from a fundamentally different set of facts? We hear from Lee McIntyre and Jonathan Rauch about what it will take to win the war on truth.
07.09.2021 Sociologist Philip N. Cohen says generation labels are meaningless — and we should quit using them Marketers love them. Journalists often use them. But do generation labels like "baby boomer" and "millennial" mean anything? Cohen, who researches social identity, says no — and he and other sociologists want the Pew Research Center to stop using them.
07.02.2021 Gavin Grimm on a watershed moment in the fight for transgender rights Gavin Grimm was a sophomore in high school when he became a household name in the movement for transgender rights. This week, vindication arrived from the Supreme Court.
06.25.2021 Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on the dark history of Indigenous boarding schools The first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history opens up about her own grandmother’s experience with family separation after announcing a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools.
06.18.2021 ‘Democracy is under siege’: Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs Arizona's top elections official presses the Senate to pass the For the People Act, even if it requires fellow Democrat Kyrsten Sinema to change her position on the filibuster.
06.11.2021 VP Kamala Harris on women in the workplace In the inaugural edition of "Please, Go On," Post columnist James Hohmann speaks with Vice President Harris about the exodus of women from the workforce during the pandemic.
06.03.2021 Introducing ‘Please, Go On’ Washington Post columnist James Hohmann sits down with the author of a compelling op-ed from The Post’s Opinions section. “Please, Go On” features marquee names and everyday people with original perspectives. New episodes Fridays. Launching June 11.