From “fake news” to “media bias," the role of journalists in covering the upcoming U.S. election has never been more contentious and fraught with challenges. In the last conversation of the US. Election Dialogues, The Globe and Mail U.S. correspondent Adrian Morrow sits down with Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff and Washington Post Bob investigative journalist Bob Woodward.

The COVID-19 pandemic has battered the U.S. economy. Now, the whole world watches to see how the one of the strongest economies in the world will be able to pick itself back up. President Donald Trump’s former chief economic advisor Gary Cohn joins Globe senior business writer and columnist Rita Trichur to talk about what it will take to rebuild a shattered U.S. economy.

What can past elections teach us about the upcoming U.S. election, one of the most contentious in recent memory? Legendary biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin joins Globe and Mail international affairs columnist Doug Saunders in a conversation to talk about this election's similarities with the elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as why there's still reason for optimism yet.

As the United States' closest trading partner, Canada has a large stake in the results of the upcoming U.S. election on November 3. That's why The Globe and Mail is hosting a three-part series of conversations over the next month featuring some of the most informed and interesting people in the United States, including Gary Cohn and Bob Woodward. The first conversation drops October 1. Don't wait to listen to them - these conversations will only be available for a limited time.