Videos

Jennifer Epstein spoke by phone about President Obama’s planned announcement regarding executive action on immigration.

Professor Bartow Elmore talks about the history of the Coca-Cola Company. This interview took place at the Organization of American Historians 2014 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Telephone lines were open for Republican viewer comments on whether former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) should run again for president in 2016. Julian Zelizer talked by telephone about Mitt R…

Rob Jesmer and Celinda Lake talked about how campaigns deal with crisis management. They discussed specific recent campaign difficulties, such as plagiarism charges against Senator John Wals…

Lauren French spoke by telephone from Capitol Hill about leadership races in both the House and Senate.

Headlines from the day’s newspapers were read and telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question: “Does the threat posed by ISIS* worry you?” David Jackson and Rebecca Thur…

Andrew Roth talked about the Club for Growth’s goals and agenda for 2014, the future of conservatism, divisions within the Republican Party, and the 2014 and 2016 elections. He also talked a…

Students from the Washington Center, and George Mason University in Virginia, participated by broadband feed in a distance learning class. Peter Wehner, a former deputy assistant to the p…

Library of Congress Recorded Sound Section Curator Matthew Barton talked about the National Recording Registry. (Included in “Washington Today,” program 86042-1.)

Michael Mandelbaum talked about his book The Road to Global Prosperity. The book addresses the state of the global economy following the 2008 financial crisis.

Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) talked about possible legislative action in the Senate to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline without the president’s signature. The State Department had recently ann…

Karen Leigh talked about the evolution and extent of ISIS' in Syria and the potential for U.S. military action against the group in that country. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (I…

Professor Stephen Vladeck and Steven Groves talked about the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation practices in response to the terrorist at…

Roll Call political editor Shira Center, speaking by telephone, previewed key congressional primaries taking place that day in Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Ne…

Gregory Rosenthal was interviewed about Hawaiian history, labor, and the Hawaiian sugar industry. This interview took place at the 2014 meeting of the Organization of American Historians in …

Robert Woodson and Michael Lind talked about President Lyndon Johnson’s goal of promoting equality and ending poverty with the Civil Rights Act and the Economic Opportunity Act. Topics inclu…

Alice Echols and David Farber talked about the 1960s counterculture. This interview took place at the Organization of American Historians 2014 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Students from the Washington Center, George Mason University in Virginia, and Purdue University in Indiana, participated by broadband feed in a distance learning class. Harvard Universi…

Stuart Rothenberg and Amy Walter talked about the possible outcomes of the 2014 midterm elections. They discussed voter trends and tossup races, key races, and possible Election Day scenario…

Jesse Holland spoke by phone about efforts by the Republican Party to recruit African Americans as candidates and voters.