Amanpour and Company

November 4, 2025

World Trade Organisation Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses how legal challenges to Trump's tariffs could impact global trade. Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, on his new book about being a competitive ultramarathoner. Harvard Philosophy professor Michael Sandel discusses the widening income and education gap in the U.S. and winning the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture.

Philosopher Michael Sandel on the "Poisoning" of U.S. Politics

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Huge numbers of working-class Americans voted for President Trump in the last election — even as he promised to extend tax breaks to the richest. Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel joins the show to discuss what factors he says are widening the income and education gap in the U.S. and contributing to Trump's populist rise to power.

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