HeyJaredFiring Line with Margaret Hoover
Author, feminist, gay rights activist and political commentator Margaret Hoover leads a rigorous exchange of ideas with America’s political and cultural newsmakers. In the spirit of William F.
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Where is the off-ramp? Spencer Cox on defusing America’s crisis of polarization (opens the original)
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) talks to Margaret Hoover about his new book Off-Ramp , which explores how alienation and polarization lead to political violence and how Americans can learn to disagree better. One year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah, he reflects on the dangers of social media and artificial intelligence and touts his state’s efforts to regulate rapidly evolving technologies. Cox also discusses lessons learned from Utah’s 2015 compromise between LGBTQ advocates and religious
Salman Rushdie’s second act: 'My interest now is to lead the life that is mine to lead' (opens the original)
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Author Salman Rushdie reflects on the “second act” he nearly didn’t get: surviving the 2022 attempt on his life, reclaiming his life and returning to fiction. He discusses the new documentary "Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie," how the attack changed his writing and his relationship to mortality, and why his creative process has become more improvisational with age. Rushdie also reflects on Jorge Luis Borges, blindness and finding “another way of seeing”; Iran’s decades-old fatwa ag
Why should anyone trust Marjorie Taylor Greene now? (opens the original)
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Margaret Hoover sits down with former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, once one of Donald Trump’s fiercest loyalists—and now one of his most outspoken defectors. Greene resigned from Congress in January after a spectacular and very public break with Trump over the war in Iran and the Epstein files. Now she says Trump “betrayed us all” and “lied” to the country. But why is she surprised? Greene reflects on what she failed to see in Trump, why she believes the Republican Party has failed its voters, a
What does one of America’s most powerful CEOs think business owes the country? (opens the original)
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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, joins Margaret Hoover for a wide-ranging conversation about what American business owes the country—and where government should get out of the way. Fresh off JPMorgan’s announcement of a $750 billion commitment to affordable housing, Dimon explains why he believes the private sector has a responsibility to help tackle America’s biggest challenges and argues that excessive regulation—not a lack of money—is the biggest obstacle to building more affordable housin
A defense of democratic socialism from House candidate Melat Kiros (opens the original)
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Democratic socialist Melat Kiros sits down with Margaret Hoover in Denver to discuss her House race, what democratic socialism means to her, and explains her criticism of Israel. Kiros, who defeated a 15-term incumbent in a Democratic primary, reflects on why democratic socialism is resonating with voters across the country and responds to “red scare tactics” from Republicans heading into the midterms. She explains where her views differ from the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America
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