Just a decade ago, Ece Temelkuran was recognized as the most-read political columnist in Turkey, then a thriving secular democracy. Today, she no longer lives in Turkey and her homeland is on the knife’s edge of dictatorship under the rule of President Erdogan. Temelkuran, author of the new book How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, spoke with Tina about what other challenged democracies can learn from the loss of liberty in Turkey and how to recognize the common playbook in the rise of many populist leaders. She says neither anger nor laughter are shelters in the storm of authoritarianism and that lies have become permissible because we have lost all sense of shame.

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Ece Temelkuran on How to Save Democracy

Bruna Papandrea is known for getting things done in Hollywood. With almost two dozen films and TV series in the works with her production company Made Up Stories, Papandrea is currently riding the Monterey waves of her latest release: season two of the smash hit HBO series Big Little Lies. The new season reunites the award-winning female ensemble cast and ups the ante with the addition of the all-powerful Meryl Streep. Streep plays Celeste's (Nicole Kidman) mother-in-law who comes to town seeking answers about the death of her son and testing the pact of secrecy made by the five women who know how he was killed--and who did it.Papandrea, who joined with Reese Witherspoon to produce the hit films Gone Girl and Wild, also talks about what she learned from working with Hollywood legends Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, and why more women need to be given the creative keys to the kingdom in the entertainment industry.  

Bruna Papandrea with More Big Little Lies

Tina talks with her friend Ian Schrager, who will forever be known for co-founding Studio 54, the nightclub that set the standard for all time for New York nightlife and celebrity and left thousands of people cursing its velvet rope. Unless, of course, you got in. In the decades since, Schrager has proved he can make lightning strike again by reinventing himself as a spectacularly successful hotelier. Reigning over a string of hip boutique hotels from London to LA, Schrager has upped his game in recent years by recasting luxury in a more affordable mode and bringing back cool, if not disco, to a gentrified Times Square. He also talks with Tina about the epic Vanity Fair bash they threw together, why he was never the life of the party, and why his home life beats life in a swanky hotel any day.Tweet me @tinabrownlm #TBDwithTinaBrown And if you liked this episode, please rate, review and subscribe to help spread the word.

Ian Schrager: From the King of Clubs to the Ace of Hotels

Adam Gopnik, the celebrated New Yorker writer whom Tina worked with for many years when she was editor in chief, talks with her about his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities, born of a talk he had with his teenage daughter on the night President Trump was elected. In the book, Gopnik posits that it is not radical revolution that brings about stable, pluralistic nations but the daily small sanities which flow from, among other liberal principles, the ideals of thriving public education and a permanent commitment to reform. He credits such forces as the culture-poking premises of some American TV sitcoms as agents of sane, cumulative political change. Gopnik also shares with his former editor how the assignment she gave him years ago––a posting in Paris—changed his outlook on the world.

Adam Gopnik Wants to Make Liberalism Great Again!

Andrew Gillum says he has gone through all the stages of grief after coming within less than half a percentage point--a round error margin as he points out--of becoming the first black governor of Florida. Now, he’s off to the next race. But instead of joining the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates, Gillum is going back to political organizing with the goal of delivering Florida’s key 29 electoral votes go to a Democrat in 2020. Gillum spoke with Tina about why Florida voters deserve more love from both political parties, what billionaire Tom Steyer should do with his money instead of backing impeachment and why Gillum is finally taking his wife on that long-promised vacation.

Andrew Gillum: Rising Democratic Star

Phoebe Robinson’s career is dope. She has a new comedy tour called Sorry, Harriet Tubman. She’s developing a new series for Amazon and she’s giving equal time to everyone but white dudes on her podcast Sooo Many White Men. Plus, she’s followed up her 2016 New York Times bestseller with a new book Everything is Trash but That’s Okay, her musings on everything from faux-feminists to the best worst reality TV.  And in her free time, she is chatting it up with Michelle Obama on Michelle’s epic book tour. Phoebe joined Tina to talk about all of this as well as why many Hollywood stylists need a reality check, why she walked out of a recent gig and how to kill eight days in Bournemouth, UK.

Phoebe Robinson: Comedy's New Queen

Dr. Jennifer Ashton, the chief medical correspondent for ABC News and a prominent physician with a private practice, has made a career of explaining difficult medical issues to her patients and viewers. Now, she has written a book about a trauma in her own life and the lives of 47,000 other families who lose a loved one to suicide each year. The book is called Life After Suicide: Finding Courage, Comfort and Community after Unthinkable Loss.Dr. Ashton wrote the book after her ex-husband, Robert, a 52-year-old thoracic surgeon, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in 2017. Dr. Ashton talks with Tina about how she and her children are working to move forward in their lives, the proper way for journalists to report on these kinds of deaths, and why we all need to get comfortable with the discomfort of talking about suicide.  

Dr. Jennifer Ashton on Life after Suicide

Chris Christie is a boisterous, larger-than-life politician who served two terms as governor of New Jersey and briefly ran for president in 2016 before dropping out of the primaries and being the first prominent Republican to back Donald Trump. But when Trump won, he essentially threw Christie overboard, passing him over for the two jobs in the administration he coveted: Vice-President and Attorney General. Sitting on the political bench at age 56 and now an ABC News contributor, Christie has written a  book called Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics. Christie joins Tina to talk candidly about what the Mueller report means for Trump, the president’s extraordinary self-preservation instincts and why hiring family members is a very bad idea.

Chris Christie Loud and Clear

Tina Brown talks with David Brooks, the New York Times op-ed columnist and author of the new book The Second Mountain. Brooks posits that decades of unfettered individualism and social freedom have left us all morally adrift. But he has identified four principles that can get one out this collective moral ditch and onto the path of a purposeful life: devotion to family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and a commitment to community.  Tina and David also discuss the Republican Party in the age of Trump and what almost all commencement speeches get wrong.

David Brooks' Moral Journey

After scoring more international goals than any other player in the history of soccer, Abby Wambach has a new goal: helping girls and women be their most powerful selves. Abby talks with Tina about why soccer parents need to zip it, why gratitude is overrated and how it took just ten minutes to fall in love with her wife.

Abby Wambach’s New Goals

Bill Browder is a whistleblower against the most powerful and richest thug on the planet: Russian President Vladimir Putin. In response, the Kremlin has expelled and convicted him twice in absentia on trumped-up charges. Browder, a financier who made a fortune in Russia, talks with Tina about going after Putin and other corrupt Russian officials and avenging the murder of his lawyer by successfully lobbying Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act.

Bill Browder: Putin’s Public Enemy No. 1

Author, actress and activist Amber Tamblyn talks with Tina about creepy men in Hollywood, how motherhood put her activism into overdrive, and what it was like seeing Harvey Weinstein stare down New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor in a recent courtroom hearing.Amber Tamblyn's new book:Amber Tamblyn Breaks a Cycle of Abuse With Era of IgnitionA Highlight from the Interview:ON THE PODCAST, TINA DISCUSSES WITH AMBER TAMBLYN BEING IN THE COURTROOM WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN: Tina: Did he look in your direction at all? Amber: He made eye contact with a few people. The person he looked the hardest at was who we know very well was sitting right across from us. As he walked down, he just stared at Jodi Kantor. That's who he stared at. Tina: At Jodi Kantor, The New York Times journalist who broke the story. Amber: Jodi Kantor blew him a kiss with her eyes.Tweet me @tinabrownlm #TBDwithTinaBrown and if you liked this episode, please rate, review and subscribe, it helps us spread the word.

Amber Tamblyn’s Time Is Now

The former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York talks with Tina about why he doesn’t feel sorry for Paul Manafort, why the superrich risk it all and break the law and how to make a mobster flip.

Preet Bharara: Nothing but the Truth

The Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actress talks with Tina about portraying two legendary Maries—war correspondent Marie Colvin and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, being a working mum and why she would never move to LA.

Hanging Out with Rosamund Pike

Alyssa Mastromonaco, President Obama’s one-time deputy chief of staff, tells Tina who would win a dance-off between Michelle Obama and Susan Rice, and why Trump’s unexplained Executive Time is bad news for his staff and for America. Plus, an update on her cats.

Alyssa Mastromonaco West Wings It

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