Here and Now combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation to form a fast-paced program that updates the news from the morning and adds important conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, and the arts: film, theater, music, food and more.

The guest roster boasts such notables as Professor Anita Hill, actor and director John Malkovich, authors Isabel Allende, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marilynne Robinson, the "Wall Street Journal's" John Harwood, jazzman Sonny Rollins and actress Jane Fonda.