Wednesday, November 10, 6–7:15 p.m. ET
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The congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald Trump offers an inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour — and a warning that the forces of autocracy released by Trump remain as potent as ever. In his new book, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years.

Speakers: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Author, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could // Moderator: Michael Waldman, President, Brennan Center for Justice

Tuesday, November 16, 12–1 p.m. ET
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From recent Facebook whistleblower testimony on hate speech to social media surveillance by law enforcement, there is an urgent need for solutions to address Big Tech and its impact on society. Join our panel of experts at the cross section of civic conversation, digital communication, and the future of democracy: Deval Patrick, former Massachusetts governor and member of President Biden’s Future of Tech Commission; Timothy Shriver, founder of UNITE and chairman of the Special Olympics; and Stanford professors Rob Reich and Jeremy Weinstein, authors of the new book System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot. The panel will be moderated by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Julia Angwin.

Speakers: Deval Patrick, Former Governor of Massachusetts; Co-chair, Future of Tech Commission // Timothy Shriver, Chair, Special Olympics International; Founder, UNITE // Rob Reich, Professor of Political Science, Director of the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Co-director of the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, Associate Director of the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University; Co-author of System Error // Jeremy Weinstein, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director of Stanford Impact Labs, Stanford University; Former Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Co-author of System Error // Moderator: Julia Angwin, Founder and Editor in Chief, The Markup

Wednesday, December 1, 6–7 p.m. ET
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The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a seismic shift in the history of the Supreme Court, cementing a conservative majority on the bench as the country experienced a pandemic, a divisive presidential election, and the Capitol insurrection. In her new book, Linda Greenhouse provides a behind-the-scenes look at the 12 months that reshaped the Supreme Court and the years of conservative activism behind the rise of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Speakers: Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School; Contributing Opinion Writer, New York Times; Author, Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court // Moderator: Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, NYU School of Law; Co-author, Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories