Guests 9085 Guests
June 2010
- Mahmoud Abbas Chairman, Palestine Liberation Organization
- Jonathan Alter Analyst, MSNBC; Columnist, The Daily Beast
- Tony Blair Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Warren Buffett Chairman and CEO; Philanthropist
- Mario Batali Chef; Restaurateur; Author
- Doris Buffett Author
- Peter Beinart Editor, The Atlantic; Contributor, CNN
- Joe Biden Vice President of the United States
- Ethan Bronner Guest Host
- Aluf Benn Editor in Chief, Haaretz
- Massimo Calabresi Washington Correspondent, Time Magazine
- Viola Davis Actor
- Ditlev Engel Chief Executive Officer, Vestas
- Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago
- Yuli-Yoel Edelstein Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, Israel
- Morgan Freeman Actor
- Melinda Gates Co-Chair, The Gates Foundation
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- Doris Kearns Goodwin Presidential Historian
- Arne Glimcher Chairman, Pace Gallery; Author
- Jim Gray Sportscaster, Westwood One Radio, Showtime, Fox
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- John Heilemann National Affairs Analyst, NBC News
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Dennis Hopper Actor
- Ibrahim Kalin Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey
- John Kerry Secretary of State
- Kenny Leon Director
- Chris Matthews Host, MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews"
- Wes Moore Author; Businessman
- Robert Malley Director, International Crisis Group, Program on Middle East and North Africa
- Neil MacFarquhar United Nations Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Bill Russell Former NBA All-Star, Head Coach
- René Redzepi Head Chef and Founder, Noma
- Roger Rosenblatt Author
- Kevin Sheekey Executive, Bloomberg News
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- John Wooden Former UCLA Basketball Coach
- Bill Walton Former Basketball Player
- Rachel Weisz Actor
May 2010
- David Anderson Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Timothy Garton Ash Author; Professor, Oxford University
- Roger Altman Founder, Evercore
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Carol Burnett Comedian
- Stephen Biddle Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
- Maria Bartiromo Broadcast Journalist, CNBC
- John F. Burns London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Barton Biggs Hedge Fund Manager, Traxis Partners; Author
- Matthew Bishop Journalist, The Economist
- Karen DeYoung Correspondent, The Washington Post
- Walter Dellinger Attorney; Partner, O'Melveny and Myers LLP
- Sylvia Earle Marine Biologist, National Geographic
- Jules Feiffer Cartoonist; Author
- Thomas Friedman Author; Columnist, The New York Times
- Nnenna Freelon Jazz Singer
- Matt Frei Journalist, BBC World News America
- Eva Gedin Editor in Chief, Norstedts
- John Hofmeister C.E.O., Citizens for Affordable Energy
- Sebastian Junger Author; Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Joel Kotkin Fellow, Chapman University
- Jeffrey Katzenberg C.E.O., Dreamworks Animation
- Raymond Kelly Former Commissioner, NYPD
- Joseph LeDoux Professor, New York University; Director, Emotional Brain Labs, Nathan Kline Institute
- Jim Lehrer Former Anchor, "PBS Newshour"; Author
- Khaled Mashaal Chief, Hamas Political Bureau
- Sonny Mehta Editor in Chief, Knopf
- Nathan Myhrvold C.E.O. and Founder, Intellectual Ventures; Former C.T.O., Microsoft
- Bill McKibben Founder, 350.org; Fellow, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Author
- Norris Church Mailer Author
- Jonathan Nelson C.E.O., Providence Equity
- Willie Nelson Singer-Songwriter
- Floyd Norris Chief Financial Correspondent, The New York Times
- Steven Pearlstein Columnist, The Washington Post
- Anna Quindlen Journalist, The New York Times; Author
- Alissa Rubin Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Nouriel Roubini Chairman, Roubini Global Economics
- Carl Schramm C.E.O., Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Andrew Ross Sorkin Guest Host
- Simon Schama University Professor of History and Art History, Columbia University; Author
- Scott Turow Author
- James Tripp Senior Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund
- Craig Venter Founder and C.E.O., Synthetic Genomes
- Steve Wereley Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
- E. O. Wilson Author
- Sean Wilentz Professor of History, Princeton University
- Martin Wolf Journalist, Financial Times
- Byron Wien Chairman, Multi-Asset Investment, Blackstone
- Tom Watson Professional Golfer
- Bashar al-Assad President of Syria
April 2010
- Lloyd Blankfein Chairman, C.E.O., Goldman Sachs
- Derek Bok Former President, Harvard University
- Michael Caine Actor
- William D. Cohan Guest Host
- Mohamed Ibrahim Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
- Christine Lagarde Managing Director, IMF
- Gretchen Morgenson Business Columnist, New York Times
- Ian McEwan Author
- Craig Robinson Head Coach, Oregon State Men's Basketball Team
- Evan Thomas Author
- Gillian Tett Managing Editor, Financial Times