Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is helping Russia.

The actor discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist. And a senior prosecutor who couldn’t abide his department’s prosecution of his father-in-law, James Comey.

The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson on what regime change in Cuba could look like, and  the Pulitzer Prize-winner Ada Ferrer on the vexed history between the U.S. and the island.

Jonathan Haidt, who wrote “The Anxious Generation,” discusses the movement to limit social-media use by young people. And the director on her film, which was nominated for eight Oscars.

Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the world. Plus, Coogler discusses his hit film, which received a record-breaking sixteen Oscar nominations.

The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the U.S. to pursue regime change in Iran again. And we hear from Iranians who are waiting, even hoping, for war.

The host of next month’s Academy Awards ceremony on what can go wrong on the big day, and the state of late-night television. Plus, Dhruv Khullar on new research into GLP-1 drugs.

The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown on what Trump told the Miami police and why the D.O.J. files make the public “more distrustful.” Plus, critic Richard Brody picks the year's best films.

The conservative podcaster sees self-dealing and conspiracy theories in the Trump Administration. Yet the left, he says, chronically underestimates its own transgressions.