Tim Weiner’s new book The Mission considers how the CIA is reimagining the art of espionage in the modern era. In today’s episode, he talks with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly about what he calls an “ideological purge” at the CIA under President Trump and how technology can make spying more difficult.

On this episode of Let’s Talk, hosted by Carolyn Murray, we welcome two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Sack.

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic have dominated headlines over the past couple of years. When writing his new book, Diet, Drugs and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight, former FDA commissioner David Kessler wanted to unpack the science beyond those headlines. He also has a personal relationship with the subject, having taken GLP-1 medications himself. Host Flora Lichtman joins Kessler to talk about the latest science on metabolism, weight loss, and how these blockbuster drugs actually work.

NPR’s Debby Elliott speaks to author and reporter Kevin Sack about his new book, Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries Of Race, Resistance, And Forgiveness In One Charleston Church.

To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.

Alexei Navalny’s best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir won the award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year as well as clinching Overall Book of the Year. Click here to see The Bookseller‘s coverage of the awards and what the judges had to say about Patriot. 

Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump’s medical evaluation forms show Trump to be the beneficiary of a drug regimen made possible through the American medical system and its associated scientific research, which are now suffering debilitating cuts at Trump’s hand.

In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.