June 17, 2021

While Russian President Vladimir Putin devoted much of his Q&A to describing U.S. domestic threats, he avoided issues facing his own constituents back home. TV Rain is Russia's only independent news channel. It's news director Ekaterina Kotrikadze joins the show.

“Havana Syndrome,” a mysterious neurological condition has afflicted more than 100 U.S. officials. Marc Polymeropoulos says the U.S. government's response is too late and was forced to retire. He explains this and more in his new book, "Clarity in Crisis."

Sunday is World Refugee Day, an international day to honor refugees around the world. Alexander Betts studies forced migration at Oxford University and in his new book, he says we’re doing migration all wrong. He joins the show to explain.

Black Americans have been pushing for Juneteenth to be celebrated as a national holiday, and today, it was officially signed into law. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed speaks with Walter Isaacson about what the holiday and her own story. @agordonreed