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Join Evan as he sits down with former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, legal scholar and author Melissa Murray, and New York Times domestic correspondent Robert Draper, along with many more influential voices, in Season 14 of Overheard with Evan Smith on Austin PBS. Stream for free on the PBS App or watch on YouTube.
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Jennifer Palmieri is a former White House Communications Director, and an Emmy-nominated host and executive producer. She talks about her new YouTube docuseries, Long Play, and the politics of the American South.
Melissa Murray is a legal scholar and author who is currently the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. She discusses the resilience of the Constitution in the face of threats to democracy.
Rahm Emanuel has served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, the Mayor of Chicago, the President's Chief of Staff, and as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He discusses the state of the country and the state of the world.
Evan Smith is the Managing Director of Events for The Atlantic, responsible for conceiving and producing dozens of annual in-person and virtual events around the country, including the flagship Atlantic Festival. He previously spent more than thirteen years at The Texas Tribune, which he co-founded and led as CEO, and nearly eighteen years at Texas Monthly, last serving as its president and editor in chief. Evan is also a senior advisor at Emerson Collective, working closely with journalists and funders around the country to support local news. A native of New York, he’s a graduate of Hamilton College, which awarded him an honorary degree in 2023, and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, which inducted him into its Hall of Achievement in 2006.
