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My name is David Graham, and I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Project, How Project 2025 is Reshaping America.

author of The Project, How Project 2025 is Reshaping America.

Noelle King with Sai Krishna Prakash of UVA. He teaches law there. And his book came out last week. It's called The Presidential Pardon, The Short Clause with a Long Troubled History. He has great timing, Sai.

I'm, you know, very grateful to President Trump for doing all the pardons he's issuing because it makes it quite likely that this will sell more than it otherwise would. He has not disappointed, right? He's just been incredibly aggressive with the pardon pen.

Mary Jordan is an associate editor of The Washington Post. She wrote a book on Melania Trump called The Art of Her Deal, The Untold Story of Melania Trump.

Mary Jordan is a reporter and associate editor at The Washington Post. She's the author of the book, The Art of Her Deal, the untold story of Melania Trump.

Keri is a health psychologist and the author of How to Winter, Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark or Difficult Days.

My name is Benito. And I'm very excited to be here on- Today explains Sean Rama's firm here with Jorel Melendez Badillo, author of Puerto Rico and National History.

Tayshia Maddox is an associate professor at Fordham University. She wrote a book called A Home Away from Home. Mutual aid, political activism, and CaribbeanAmerican identity.

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Jesse Walker wrote a book called The United States of Paranoia back in 2013, a time he thought was peak conspiracy theory. And in this book, he looked back much further and saw the conspiracies have long been a part of American history.

Jesse Walker. His book is called The United States of Paranoia.

Paul Shari knows a lot about AI and how our military is using it. He's the author of Four Battlegrounds, Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2024, she published a book cowritten with her brother Callie Means called Good Energy about ending what they call the chronic disease epidemic. And this book emerged into the world just as the Maha movement and RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign were really gaining momentum and visibility.

I read Good Energy because I interviewed her brother Callie Means. It's a really genuinely interesting book.

So Good Energy is kind of their manifesto. It's partly a memoir about Casey Means' journey out of conventional medicine and into the influencer space. She talks about the death of her mother. It's a diet and nutrition and lifestyle guide.

Her book is called One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. Her other book is called Sucker Punch.

That was Megan Garber. She's got a book called Screen People, How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency. Check it out if you've been feeling like you're in a state of emergency lately.

His latest book is Iran's Grand Strategy, A Political History.

My name is Clive Thompson. I'm the author of Coders, The Making of a New Tribe and The Remaking of the World.

Catherine Bracey, she loves tech, but she also wants it to work better for the people. She wrote a book all about her position. It's called World Eaters, How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy.

Valerie Fridlin is a sociolinguist and author of the book Why We Talk Funny, the real story behind our accents.

My name is Dexter Filkins and I'm a writer for The New Yorker magazine. Dexter was based in Iraq from 2003 to 2006 and wrote the aptly named and awardwinning book The Forever War.

Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker and The Forever War.

I've read one of her books called Burnout, The Cost of Caring.

He wrote a whole book about it called The End of Burnout, Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives.

Matt Bayh is a national affairs columnist at Rolling Stone and the author of All the Truth Is Out. That book traces the start of our obsession with the sordid details of politicians' personal lives back to a candidate named Gary Hart.

Matt Bayh of Rolling Stone. The book is All the Truth Is Out.