Healthcare genius Sarah Kliff discusses her year-long project reading ER bills, plus Berniecare and other proposals for bringing sanity to U.S. healthcare.

The world's greatest violinist discusses genius, reveals "the great secret of a good teacher," and makes a sausage joke. Plus his wife Toby pops in, and his students play a concert.

Who is Vladimir Putin? Putin’s foremost biographer, Steven Lee Myers, has your answer.

Columbia’s Dean of Science Peter deMenocal and TED-Talking theoretical physicist Kate Marvel explain Climate Science with humor and simplicity.

Tom Six is the cheerful, charming Dutchman behind the sickest movie of the last 20 years.  Alec is a fan.

Becca Heller won a MacArthur "genius" grant for deploying lawyers to airports to help victims of the travel ban. She could have won for comedy. Her story, very well told, on today's HTT.

Singer-songwriter Carly Simon talks to Alec Baldwin about meeting Bob Dylan, marrying James Taylor, overcoming stage fright -- and other stories from her memoir, Boys in The Trees.

Alec sits down with fellow Long Islander Billy Joel—at the piano—for a conversation about life and the musical choices he’s made.

Music mastermind Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson talks to Alec Baldwin about Instagram obituaries, the magic of Jimmy Fallon, and how three 15-person vans helped The Roots start a movement.