Dr. Darrell Bricker, CEO, Ipsos Public Affairs; and Dr. Zachary Karabell, President, River Twice Research, discuss demographic trends and their impact on communities, economies, nations, and the human race.

Bill Kristol, Director of Defending Democracy Together; Dr. Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT; and Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, discuss what is and should be the right and best role for the United States in world affairs.

The CEO of Jefferson Health discusses discrepancies between U.S. healthcare spending our life expectancy and rates of chronic illness, and the potential for reform.

Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund; The Madhouse Effect co-author Michael Mann; Ted Halstead, Climate Leadership Council; and John Rie, Stable Climate Group discuss these questions and possible scenarios.

In the Season 5 premiere, Ambassador and former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robin Raphel, international spokesman Raza Bokhari, and former Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson discuss the South Asian conflict.

Season 5 of The Whole Truth premieres on public television stations nationwide spring/summer 2020—check your local listings!

Filmed live at Eastern State Penitentiary, guests Mark Holden of Koch Industries; Jeffrey Brown of UpLift Solutions; Paul Butler of Georgetown University Law; and Robert Listenbee, Philadelphia First Assistant DA, discuss possible alternatives to incarceration and the best approaches to systematic reform.

Dr. George Soroka of Harvard University; Dr. Ely Ratnor, Center for a New American Security; Sarah Repucci of Freedom House; and Thor Halvorssen of Human Rights Foundation discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, the future of the rule of law, and the protection of individual human rights around the world.

What lies ahead for Germany, for the Germans at home, for Germany’s place in Europe, and for the key relationship between Germany and the United States on the world stage?

Guests Admiral Dennis Blair of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA; Dr. Sheila Smith of the Council on Foreign Relations; and Kathy Matsui of Goldman Sachs Japan discuss the country’s economic, demographic, and geopolitical challenges.

Dr. Jim Walsh of MIT’s Security Studies Program; Dr. Annie Tracy Samuel of the University of Tennessee’s Department of History; and Dr. Suzanne Maloney, Deputy Director of Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution discuss the current perspective on the United States’ ally turned adversary.

Season 4 of The Whole Truth premieres on WHYY on June 30, 2019, at 11 a.m., and on public television stations nationwide July 2019—check your local listings!

Dr. Charles Yarish, a globally renowned seaweed expert, co-founder and CEO of Zero Mass Water, Dr. Cody Friesen, Ali Jaffer, the Global COO of Generation, and from Haiti, Dr. Sasha Kramer, the co-founder of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL), discuss disruptive technologies that may improve worldwide poverty conditions.

Historian Dr. Stephen Kotkin, Dr. Alina Polyakova, and Ambassador Alexander Vershbow discuss Russia’s relationship with the U.S. since the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin.

Authors Michael Arceneaux and Andrew Sullivan discuss how divisions among the American people have created a new age of tribalism not seen since before the Civil War.

Political commentator Tara Setmayer, law professor Paul Butler, and lawyer Rick Jones explore how race and ethnicity have come to factor in Americans’ view of the criminal justice system and how that might change.

Research engineer Howard Herzog, Dr. Balakrishnan Nair, co-founder of wave energy company Oscilla Power, Dr. Jose Reyes, co-founder of NuScale Power - the company behind America's first small modular nuclear reactor - and Dr. Chris Case, CTO of Oxford Photovoltaics in England, discuss options for new energy alternatives to meet world power needs.

Economist Jonathan Rothwell, Dr. Thaddeus Pope, and Dr. Bon Ku explore how the U.S. compares with other advanced countries on healthcare spending and outcomes.

Dr. David Herzberg of University at Buffalo, Dr. Michael Pantalon, a psychologist and senior research scientist at Yale University, Dr. Bertha Madras, a member of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, and Certified Recovery Specialist Regina Marchetti explore the surge in addiction, its consequences, and recommendations for response.

Anurag Harsh of Ziff Davis, Alana Semuels of The Atlantic, Stephen Moore of The Heritage Foundation, and University of California San Diego sociology professor Dr. Lane Kenworthy discuss the future of work in our country.