David Priess

This week’s episode takes a walk on the dark side, with a molecular look at a prominent international poisonings. Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov died in…

It’s Presidents’ Day! To mark the day, I recorded this special episode with historian and author Lindsay Chervinsky about the history of this odd holiday–and…

This week, for our first episode this year after the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, I chat with author and CNN senior political analyst John Avlon…

This week, Shane Harris talks with journalist Erich Schwartzel about one of the most intense arenas of the great power competition between the United States…

This week, I speak with professor and writer Ethan Scheiner about the history of the Olympic games, the many political controversies in and around the…

This week, Shane Harris talks with veteran journalist Leslie Kean, who has done groundbreaking and widely admired reporting on unidentified flying objects. And, no, that…

In this bonus episode of Chatter, David Priess talks with professor and author Martia Sturken about 9/11-related memorials, museums, and architecture. Her research and writings…

This week, Shane Harris talks with pioneering multi-media artist Laurie Anderson. A retrospective of her work, called “The Weather,” is showing at the Hirshhorn Museum…

This week, Shane Harris and David Priess team up to talk with John Sipher, a former senior intelligence officer who has gone Hollywood. With his…

On this special January 6 episode of Chatter, David Priess speaks with historian and author Joanne Freeman about the history of violence on Capitol Hill…