Best Of: Alex Edelman on ‘Just For Us’ and comedy as “a high-wire, high-risk act”

Washington Post Well+Being Editor Tara Parker Pope and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Robert Klitzman join The Post's Jonathan Capehart for a conversation about how the impacts of cognitive decline in senior citizens, ways to keep your brain active and stimulated as you get older and reducing the stigma surrounding aging. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, September 17, 2024.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) joins The Post's Jonathan Capehart from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to talk about the Harris-Walz 2024 campaign strategy, the prospects for Democrats to regain control of the House of Representatives and why he feels Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign "surpasses" Barack Obama's 2008 campaign run. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, August 21, 2024.

On the heels of the historic prisoner swap that led to the release of detained journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, we revisit a conversation from Post Live's World Press Freedom Day May 3 event. Jonathan Capehart speaks with Committee to Protect Journalists CEO Jodie Ginsberg, RSF USA executive director Clayton Weimers and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty CEO Steve Capus about the state of global press freedom, the technological shifts reshaping the media and what's at stake as billions around the world head to the polls this year.

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield joins The Post's Jonathan Capehart for a conversation about Sudan’s hunger and displacement crisis, the underlying conflict of the country’s civil war and the response from the international community. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

As she sets the stage for her presidential campaign in the upcoming 2024 election, we revisit this conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris from 2019 as she sat down with Jonathan Capehart to discuss her memoir, upbringing and career in front of a live audience on the campus of George Washington University. Conversation recorded on Jan. 9, 2019 for Politics and Prose.

In a special expanded edition of First Look, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) talked about Vice President Kamala Harris’s White House campaign, possibilities for her running mate and the political dynamic in his home state. Next, Post reporters and columnists discussed where the presidential contest goes from here and offered perspectives on a historic and unpredictable election. Conversation recorded on Friday, July 26, 2024.

Retired judge David Tatel joins The Post's Jonathan Capehart for a conversation about his new memoir, his rise to becoming a judge on the influential D.C. circuit, coming to terms with his blindness and his growing concern about the direction of the Supreme Court. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.

In a special expanded edition of First Look, Post reporters and columnists discuss the debate in the Democratic party over Biden's candidacy, the upcoming Republican National Convention and the stakes for American democracy in the 2024 presidential election. Conversation recorded on Friday, July 12, 2024.

Alex Edelman has just won a Tony award for his Broadway solo stand-up show "Just for Us" that he also turned into a HBO special. In this encore presentation from April, Edelman talks about exploring antisemitism through humor in the hit show and why the special “felt conversant with the moment but also sort of an escape from” Hamas’s October 7 attack. Conversation recorded on April 3, 2024.

Historian and special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt joins The Post’s Jonathan Capehart for a conversation about the spike in antisemitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, her role at the State Department, her scholarship about the Holocaust and the lessons of the past for today. Conversation recorded on Thursday, June 11, 2024.