This week, Senator Obama began the European leg of his much anticipated overseas trip. I spoke to Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland, New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner and author Robin Wright about their observations after the Senator's first stop in Berlin, where he drew a crowd of...

Mohammed El Erian is one of the country's most successful money managers. He's the co-CEO of the Pacific Investment Management Company, better known as PIMCO. That firm oversees more than $829 billion. He previously led Harvard University's endowment to substantial returns on investment. I spoke to him recently about his...

I recently talked to Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution about his new book, A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East. Here is a part of that conversation:

David Chang is chef/owner of Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko and Momofuku Ssäm Bar in New York City. Chang has taken the food world by surprise, he has already won two James Beard awards and both Bon Appeitie and GQ named him chef of the year in 2007. Here is...

Senator Jim Webb is one of the rising stars in the Democratic Party. Webb is a decorated Marine who served in Vietnam and was former Secretary of the Navy under the Reagan administration. In 2006, he was elected senator of Virginia after defeating the Republican incumbent George Allen in a...

Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday last Friday. To mark the occasion, we celebrated the South African leader's life and legacy with two people who have known him and his country well -- Time Magazine's Rick Stengel who helped Mandela with his autobiography and Chief Justice Margaret Marshall of the...

I talked with singer/songwriter Neil Young about his music, his marriage, and his faith. You can see excerpts on all three topics in the clip embedded below:

I talked to David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, about the magazine's controversial cover depicting Senator Barack Obama as a Muslim and Michelle Obama as a gun-toting revolutionary. Here is a part of that conversation:

Last night I spoke with Gretchen Morgenson (New York Times) and Allan Sloan (Fortune) about the economic downturn and the reaction to President Bush's press conference. You can see a part of that conversation below:

The latest polling shows a statistical dead heat between the two presumptive nominees. On last night's show I talked to two of the smartest men in the business -- Chuck Todd of NBC News and Mark Halperin of Time Magazine/ABC News about where the candidates stand and the challenges they...

Mountain gorillas are an endangered species with some 700 alive. Nearly half of these animals live in Virunga National Park which borders Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The gorillas are caught in the middle of the Congo's ongoing civil war between militia groups and the Congolese Army....

Former ABC news anchorman Ted Koppel has just completed a four-part documentary on China for the Discovery Channel. I spoke to him this week about his observations on the country and what kind of debate we ought to be having back home.

For more than two centuries, the nation has debated the question of war powers. The Constitutional wording is well-known: the president is the Commander-in-Chief, but Congress has the power to declare war and to appropriate funds. A new bipartisan commission is calling for more consultation between the president and Congress...

I recently spoke with Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. We spoke about the recent Bear Stearns buyout, many argue the buyout prevented chaos and instability from spreading across the global market. Here is an excerpt from our conversation:

I talked with Egyptian billionaire and telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris recently. He's Chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the biggest mobile network providers
in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. He spoke frankly about the difficulties of penetrating the China market and his hopes...

Zimbabwe has recently been gripped in power struggle between President Robert Mugabe and the political opposition that calls for democratic reform. Though Mugabe won the recent presidential election, the United States and much of the international community has called the vote illegitimate. I recently spoke with four people who know...

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