We will ask listeners from around the country to share their hopes for 2021 on the day the House and Senate come together to count the Electoral Votes and the day after voters in Georgia’s two runoff elections determine which party will control the U.S. Senate.
Join Brian Lehrer, guests, and callers for the latest news and a participatory conversation about moving forward as a country, and what it would take to really be united.
Hour 1
- Heidi Heitkamp, a contributor for CNBC, a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and the founder of One Country Project, an organization aimed at helping Democrats nationally reconnect with rural voters
- Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and the author of The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Hour 2
- Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief and the author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (Twelve, 2019) and the forthcoming Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Twelve, April 2021)
- Kai Wright, host of the WNYC's "The United States of Anxiety"
- Charlie Sykes, Wisconsin-based editor-at-large of The Bulwark and host of the Bulwark podcast, a former host of Indivisible and the author of How the Right Lost Its Mind (St. Martin's Press, October, 2017)
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