Forthright Radio

As issues continue to arise about the upcoming midterm elections, we invited the CEO of The League of Women Voters, Celina Stewart, to discuss their work. For over a century, they continue to rise to the challenge of protecting our right to vote. Celina Stewart is a nationally recognized voting rights attorney, and champion of American democracy.

Our guest today on Forthright Radio is writer, analyst and investigative journalist, Casey Michel. He is Director of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, where he works on topics ranging from kleptocracy, oligarchy, illicit finance and dark money, as well as foreign lobbying and foreign interference. In addition, he is also a Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the Center for International Policy.

It seems healthcare – or the lack of it – is a hot topic these days.

Cal Flyn is an award winning writer from the highlands of Scotland. In 2022, she was named a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She has been the winner of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the John Burroughs Medal, and she was a finalist for the Wainwright Prize, the British Academy Book Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

Pepper Culpepper is Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy, and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Blavatnik School of Government, and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. His research explores the intersection of capitalism and democracy.

What if your spouse has severe food allergies? You planned your trip to Disney World to find restaurants that prioritize patrons with such allergies. You asked your waiter several times, if your meal could be prepared without your allergens. Your waiter reassured you each time that it would be. When your food arrived without the labels marking them as safe, you expressed concern and the waiter again tells you that it is fine to eat. So you enjoy your meal.

“A new administration must screen out those who regard Government service as the door to power or wealth, those who cannot distinguish between private gains and public trust, and those who believe that old-fashioned honesty with the public’s money is both old and out of fashion.” John F.

Gal Beckerman is an author and a staff writer at The Atlantic. His latest book is HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT. Before coming over to The Atlantic, whose books section he also ran, he was an editor at the New York Times Book Review for six years. He also served as the opinion editor at the Forward newspaper and a staff editor and writer at the Columbia Journalism Review. His writing has appeared in a number of places over the years, including the Washington Post, The New Republic and Bookforum.

Our guest today is Amherst College’s Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Douglas Lawrence. He is the author of seven books, including the nonfiction books, The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust; and Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Electoral Meltdown in 2020; as well as the novels, The Catastrophist, and The Vices.

Media around the globe reported the death of Ted Turner on May 6, 2026, at the age of 87. Phillip Evans, a spokesman for the family, confirmed the death. He announced in 2018 that he had Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder. Turner’s Montana properties included the flagship 113,000-acre Flying D Ranch south of Bozeman.