Washington Post Live

Veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile joins Washington Post Live to discuss the high-stakes encounter, the latest battleground polls and the top issues driving the electorate. Conversation recorded on Monday, September 9, 2024.

Washington Post columnist Max Boot joins The Post’s Karen Tumulty “Reagan: His Life and Legend” to discuss Reagan's political evolution, how the former president helped end the Cold War and his complex family life. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, September 4, 2024.

Jen O’Malley Dillon, campaign chair for Vice President Kamala Harris, joins The Post’s Michael Scherer from the Democratic National Convention to discuss Harris’s speech in Chicago, the Democrats’ economic message and the campaign’s strategy to reach undecided voters in battleground states. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, August 22, 2024.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joins The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to discuss the stakes for the 2024 election, Democrats’ vision for America and U.S. support for Israel. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, August 22, 2024.

Moon Unit Zappa, actor, singer and author of a new memoir “Earth to Moon,” joins Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers to discuss her upbringing in Hollywood as the child of iconoclast Frank Zappa, her path as an artist and her father’s musical legacy. Conversation recorded on Thursday, August 15, 2024.

Russian writer and political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza joins The Post’s opinions page editor David Shipley to discuss his imprisonment of more than two years, his historic release, press freedom and Russia's future after Putin. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, August 14, 2024.

Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger D. Carstens joins The Post’s Jason Rezaian to discuss the recent historic prisoner trade releasing several Americans and other individuals from Russian prisons, his ongoing work to free other U.S. citizens abroad and efforts to end the practice of hostage-taking. Conversation recorded on Monday, August 12, 2024.

Wendy Sherman joins Washington Post Live to discuss the escalating tensions in the Middle East, the repercussions of the historic prisoner swap between Russia and the United States and the state of American foreign policy. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, August 7, 2024.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) and Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt (R) join Washington Post Live for a bipartisan conversation about the state of election security, fears about political violence and the rise of disinformation. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University and Comfort Ero, president & CEO of the International Crisis Group join Washington Post Live to examine Sudan’s hunger and displacement crisis, the underlying conflict of the country’s civil war and the response from the international community. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson joins Washington Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer from Paris to discuss Team USA’s top runners, his efforts to boost the popularity of track and field and his record-breaking career. Conversation recorded on Monday, July 29, 2024.

In a special expanded edition of First Look, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) talked about Vice President Kamala Harris’s White House campaign, possibilities for her running mate and the political dynamic in his home state. Next, Post reporters and columnists discussed where the presidential contest goes from here and offered perspectives on a historic and unpredictable election. Conversation recorded on Friday, July 26, 2024.

Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research for the VA St. Louis Health Care System and Jaime Seltzer, scientific director of #MEAction and Stanford University research scientist, discuss the ranging impacts of long covid and how health care institutions can improve in educating the public on the diagnosis. Then, Chimére L. Sweeney, founder and director of The Black Long Covid Experience and Linda Sprague Martinez, director of the Health Disparities Institute at UConn Health discuss the challenges people of color and marginalized communities face in the health care system. Finally, Ashwin Vasan, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene discusses how the city is implementing new strategies to aid long covid patients. Conversation recorded on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Rep Adam Smith (D-Wash.) joins Washington Post Live to weigh in on Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House, the Democratic Party’s message and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

Democratic political strategist David Axelrod joins Washington Post Live to discuss President Biden’s decision to end his campaign, hat could happen next, the best path forward for Democrats and his long-standing reservations about Biden’s electoral path to victory. Conversation recorded on Monday, July 22, 2024.

Jason Rezaian, the former Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post, who was unjustly imprisoned in 2014 in Iran on charges of espionage for 544 days joins The Post’s Frances Stead Sellers to reflect on his freedom 10 years since his imprisonment, his work to raise awareness about journalists being held captive and the state of global press freedom. Conversation recorded on Monday, July 22, 2024.

On Washington Post Live’s “First Look,” Washington Post Live anchor Leigh Ann Caldwell speaks with The Post’s Marianna Sotomayor, E.J. Dionne and Megan McArdle about Donald Trump’s speech at the RNC and calls for President Biden to step out of the election. Conversation recorded on Friday, July 19, 2024.

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu joins Washington Post Live to discuss why he now favors Trump’s candidacy despite his past criticisms, the future of the Republican Party and the renewed calls to lower the temperature on the national political discourse. Conversation recorded on Thursday, July 18, 2024.

Corey Lewandowski joins Washington Post Live to discuss how Donald Trump's attempted assassination has changed the former president, how the Republican Party has unified during the RNC and why he believes "the next two weeks will be critical for the Democratic Party." Conversation recorded on Thursday, July 18, 2024.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joins Washington Post Live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to discuss the Secret Service's "massive security failure" following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, bias within the mainstream media and how Republicans are unifying ahead of the 2024 election. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.