With a 10,000 bed detainment center coming to Social Circle, immigration lawyer Charles Kuck joins host Bill Nigut to discuss recent developments in immigration policy.

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Boston Globe books section editor Kate Tuttle joins host Bill Nigut to discuss recent and upcoming book releases. Kate previously lived in Atlanta where she wrote for the New York Times, LA Times and Washington Post. She is also a former president of the National Book Critics Circle.

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Atlantan pianist Joe Alterman has taken the stage at iconic venues including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Birdland and Blue Note and performed alongside jazz greats like Houston Person, Les McCann, and Ramsey Lewis. After studying music at NYU and playing gigs around New York City, he returned home to Atlanta to serve as Executive Director of Neranenah, an Atlanta-based concert and culture series celebrating Jewish contributions to the arts. On In These Times he discusses his career and recent writings on current events, especially as they pertain to Judaism and the arts.

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Doug Shipman, founding CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, former President and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center and member of countless Atlanta boards discuses his background in civil rights and weighs in on how to heal the deep partisan divides that plague us today.

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With 2026 off to a roaring start, Andra Gillespie, Audrey Haynes, Kevin Riley and Amy Steigerwalt join host Bill Nigut to discuss Georgia and national political headlines.

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With Martin Luther King Jr. day coming up, today's episode focuses on a specific element of civil rights history: transportation in civil disobedience. John Bollard joins host Bill Nigut to discuss his latest book, Protesting with Rosa Parks: From Stagecoaches to Driving While Black. Bollard served as the managing editor of the African American National Biography at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research and has a PhD in English from the University of Leeds.

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Host Bill Nigut interviews global health expert Bill Foege, who is largely credited for devising the strategy that eradicated smallpox, about his life and career and where public health is headed in these times.

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