The Nation‘s national affairs correspondent Joan Walsh joined our Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel on Wednesday, July 29 to discuss the November election, the pandemic and the protests. Watch the recording below.

A dynamic public speaker and award-winning political reporter, Walsh is a regular guest on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper and Out Front with Erin Burnett, and has appeared on many other national shows including Real Time with Bill Maher and Now on PBS. Salon’s first news editor, Walsh served as editor-in-chief for six years. She’s written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among many other publications. An avid baseball fan, she’s the co-author of Splash Hit: The Pacific Bell Park Story, about the building of the San Francisco Giants legendary waterfront stadium.