On a special edition of Firing Line this Friday 6/26 (check local listings), Margaret Hoover interviews several GOP rising stars in Congress, including Elise Stefanik and Jaime Herrera Beutler, on their paths to Congress, their policies and what it will take to get more GOP women in Congress. | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

"Whatever it is that's fashionable to hate, you plug on the Jew," says former Israeli antisemitism envoy @noatishby. That, she argues, is why Israel has come to be seen as a "white supremacist, colonialist, racist country" by many. "None of it is true, but for people, this is what sticks." Check out the interview on PBS, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

#Harvard historian Jill Lepore expects the #SupremeCourt's affirmative action decision will further erode public trust in the court. She calls the court’s logic "a little bit illegible" and says the conservative majority's interpretation of the 14th Amendment is "baffling." | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

"We are having this conversation about inciting violence and about someone attacking the family of the DA and the judge about the former president of the United States of America," former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann says of #DonaldTrump's rhetoric. "It is really breathtaking." | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

In his new biography, author Sam Tanenhaus describes Bill Buckley as an arguer, not a thinker. “Bill Buckley lived and thought in the moment,” said Tanenhaus. “If a debate came up, he would almost always have a striking, original, or at least sesquipedalian answer for you…But if you asked him to step back from that and put all the arguments together, then he really struggled.” Check out part 2 of Margaret Hoover’s interview with Sam Tanenhaus on PBS, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. |

Author Sam Tanenhaus discusses his new biography of William F. Buckley Jr., the architect of the modern American conservative revolution. “There was nobody like him before. There hasn't been anyone since,” says Tanenahus. “Bill Buckley was probably the most famous intellectual in America for that entire span.” Check out Margaret Hoover’s interview with Sam Tanenhaus on PBS, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover