Filmmaker Kirk Ellis discusses the chasm between political opponents not just in today's America but also during the founding period of this country. The Emmy Award winner worked on the HBO biopic of John Adams.

Author and activist Andrea James chats with Mary-Charlotte on the failures and opportunities in the U.S. justice system, especially its prisons in this thought-provoking episode.

Terry Tempest Williams is one of those extraordinary writers who reminds me that heart and mind are inextricable. Her latest book, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks is a journey through twelve national parks, in which we encounter a history of our nation in microcosm. In the episode we talk to her and her husband Brooke Williams, author of, Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet, a book that traces another kind of journey on the Western landscape, a meeting of his own history and ancestors.

Allegra Love is fierce defender of immigrant rights and was recognized by The New Mexican as one of its 10 Who Made a Difference, an annual honor for those who've made big contributions to the community. Love, along with nine others, were celebrated with a banquet and features in The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Trevor Potter became well-known for advising Stephen Colbert on campaign finance law on The Colbert Report. He's talking with Mary-Charlotte on the abuses and excesses of this nation's laws and potential ways forward.

Healing children traumatized by war. Dr. Mona El-Farra, a Palestinian physician and human rights advocate with the Middle East Children's Alliance, talks about working with children and families living for generations under conditions of war and deprivation. 

El-Farra is speaking next week in Santa Fe.

Santa Fe celebrity Chef Johnny Vee chats with Mary-Charlotte about Thanksgiving dinner, including the prospect of a leftover sopaipilla-green chile stuffing.