Sociologist Neda Maghbouleh has spent years talking to second generation Iranian Americans about their experiences with racialization in the United States. Although they're legally classified as white, their social experience rarely squares with their legal classification. She joins the show to discuss her research and share her own experiences in the no man's land of Iranian American racial politics.

Adventure and science journalist Leslie Anthony discusses his research into invasive species and the effect they're having on the planet.

Political scientist Jeremy Teigen explores the history of military service and the U.S. presidency and discusses how the status of being a veteran has helped or hindered presidential hopefuls.

Whether you think it's on its way out or a permanent fixture in our culture, there's no denying that we're fascinated with books. Poet and scholar Amaranth Borsuk joins the show to explore the limits and possibilities of the book as object, as content, and as idea.

The Virgina Company. The Fourteenth Amendment. Dodge v Ford Motor Co. Ralph Nader. Mitt Romney. UCLA law professor Adam Winkler talks through the characters and cases that helped business corporations gain rights under the Constitution.

As technological advancement leads us to confront an ever-larger bombardment of information, we have to ask ourselves: which of all this information is true or accurate?  Today's guest believes we can tell the difference between solid data and media junk if we learn how.  He's here to help us begin that important process of learning discernment amid an ocean of media.

As technological advancement leads us to confront an ever-larger bombardment of information, we have to ask ourselves: which of all this information is true or accurate?  Today's guest believes we can tell the difference between solid data and media junk if we learn how.  He's here to help us begin that important process of learning discernment amid an ocean of media.

Kathryn Tempest, senior lecturer on Roman history at the University of Roehampton London and author of "Brutus: The Noble Conspirator," joins the show to talk about how we know what we know about Marcus Junius Brutus and his infamous assassination of Julius Caesar.

Historian Daniel Horowitz, author of the book "Happier? The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America," discusses the results of America's draw towards positive psychology and happiness.

Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, describes how the science on climate change has changed throughout his career and details his own experiences witnessing those changes on the ground in the Arctic.