Deborah Solomon, WNYC art critic and the author of American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), talks about some of the art worth bundling up for this winter.

 Kerry James Marshall: Mastry - The Met Breuer (Until January 29 2017)

Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss and the Cycle of Life - Richmond Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (Until February 20, 2017)

 A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde - Museum of Modern Art (Until March 12, 2107)

 Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty - the Brooklyn Museum (Until April 2 2017)

 I'm Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson - The Morgan Library (January 20 -May 21, 2017)

Marsden Hartley's Maine - The Met Breuer (March 15 - June 18, 2017)

 Robert Rauschenberg - Museum of Modern Art (May 21 - September 17 2017)

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Eric Lipton, New York Times investigative reporter in the Washington bureau, and David Folkenflik, NPR Media Correspondent, review the tough editorial decisions that media outlets face when deciding how and what to report on in the case of hacked or leaked material — as exemplified by the D.N.C. emails, which the F.B.I. and CIA now say was the result of Russian cyber espionage.

Arnold Punaro, former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee and author of On War and Politics: The Battlefield Inside Washington's Beltway (Naval Institute Press, 2016), brings his career's worth of experience to give advice regarding today's most contentious military issues.

Jerrold Nadler, U.S. Representative (NY-10), talks about how Democrats will work to shape policy with Republicans in control of the White House and both houses of Congress.

The Canadian family behind Minnesota's Mall of America are the latest in a parade of developers attempting to build a massive mall in New Jersey's Meadowlands, hopefully dubbed "American Dream." As part of a week-long series called Mall Madness, produced in partnership with NJ Spotlight and Bloomberg Businessweek, WNYC reporter Ilya Marritz looks into the saga of this still unfinished mall and indoor ski destination.

Elizabeth D. Samet, author and the editor of Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers  (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015), discusses her recent article in The Atlantic, “Business Leaders and the Mixed Feelings They Inspire,” which looks at the history of skepticism about those who are financially successful, going back to the Roman empire.

Anne Barnard, New York Times Beirut bureau chief, discusses a deal reached between pro-government forces in Syria and rebels that involves the anti-government forces evacuating the small sections of Aleppo in their control, all this after reports revealed Syrian government forces killed 82 civilians on Monday.

"To see a government bomb it's own cities is something that is challenging the whole concept of human rights laws," says Barnard. "There hasn't been any leverage, internationally, to do anything about it."

Steve Zeitlin, executive director of City Lore and author of The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness (Cornell University Press, 2016), and Sahar Muradi, the Afghan-American poet who curated the Poetic Voices of the Muslim World exhibit at City Lore, share their experiences searching for the often overlooked artistic moments that comprise our day-to-day lives.

Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at NYU and Princeton and contributing editor to The Nation, discusses what we know about Russia's use of cyber-attacks to disrupt stability in democratic institutions from Kiev to Washington, and how this was going on during the 2016 presidential election.