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NYTimes Bestseller Bianca Bosker hosting Q&A in the Hive, Thurs. @ 2p.m.

New York Times bestseller and award-winning journalist Bianca Bosker will be joining us in the Hive, Thursday at 2:00 p.m. to talk about all things food and wine. Feel free to send her questions about wine pairings, sommelier training and more. Submit your questions at any time below or join us Thursday at 2! If you’d like to participate but don’t have TPM Prime, sign up here.

Infrastructure Expert Kevin DeGood hosting Q&A in the Hive, Wed. @ 1p.m.

Kevin DeGood, from American Progress, will be in the Hive to discuss all things infrastructure. Drop your questions about American infrastructure, Trump’s proposed budget in regards to infrastructure and more, and be sure to join us on Wednesday at 1:00 pm. If you’d like to participate but don’t have TPM Prime, sign up here.

Archeology/Anthropology Prof. Amr Al Azm hosting Q&A about Syria in the Hive, Wed. @ 2 p.m.

Professor Amr Amr will join us in the Hive for a chat about archeology and his latest project, The Day After, which works to cut down on looting of ancient artifacts in Syria. Feel free to drop questions at any time or join us on Wednesday at 2 p.m. If you’d like to participate but don’t have TPM Prime, sign up here.

Healthcare expert Adam Cancryn is back hosting Q&A in the Hive, Thurs. @ 1 p.m.

Adam Cancryn, health care reporter for POLITICO Pro in Washington, D.C. will join us in the Hive to discuss issues relating to health care. He previously was the senior financial services and insurance reporter for S&P Global Market Intelligence (formerly SNL Financial), and ran the sports site “Began in ’96.” He’s written for The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Submit questions to Adam about health care reform, Obamacare, the failed American Health Care Act and more. Feel free to submit your questions any time or join us Thursday at 1 p.m. If you’d like to participate but don’t have TPM Prime, sign up here.

Women’s policy & advocacy expert Lyric Thompson hosting Q&A in the Hive, Weds. @ 1:00 p.m.

Lyric Thompson is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). She leads the institution’s formulation of evidence-based policy recommendations and manages ICRW’s advocacy efforts with the US Government and internationally. Lyric serves as co-chair of the Girls Not Brides USA advocacy coalition working to end child marriage, on the steering committee of the Coalition to End Gender-Based Violence Globally, the board of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, the Executive Committee of the Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security and the board of the Community Center for Integrated Development of Cameroon.

Lyric will join us for a chat about all things relating to women’s health and policy. Feel free to submit questions about policy changes at home, abroad, the future of women’s health and her work on ending child marriage here by Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. EST. If you’d like to participate but don’t have TPM Prime, sign up here.

Ask TPM reporters all your Congress Qs, Friday at 1 p.m. EST

Join Talking Points Memo’s DC reporters Tierney Sneed and Alice Ollstein for a live chat talking about everything Congress. They’ll answer questions about what it’s like to cover Congress, any changes they see this year, challenges they’ve face in their reporting and more. Feel free to submit your questions here or join us on Friday at 1 p.m. EST! If you’d like to participate but don’t have a Prime membership, sign up here.

Ask your environment/climate change Qs to Bill McKibben today at 3:30pm EST

Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement. A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books,National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. Ask Bill your questions about climate change, fracking, etc. here by 3:30 p.m. EST. If you’d like to participate but don’t have a Prime membership, sign up here.

Ask your Qs about education, Betsy Devos, etc. today at 1 p.m.!

Two editors from the national education news network Chalkbeat will join us in the Hive today for a live chat about education. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization covering education in Colorado, Detroit, Indiana, New York, Tennessee, and across the country.

Feel free to submit your questions to Sarah Darville and Candace Carrington about anything from public schools, common core, education reform, charter schools and more. Drop your questions here — if you’d like to participate but don’t have a Prime membership, join here.

Healthcare/ACA expert Adam Cancryn hosting Q&A in the Hive, Weds. @ 1 p.m.

Adam Cancryn, healthcare reporter for POLITICO Pro in Washington, D.C. will join us in the Hive to discuss issues relating to health care. He previously was the senior financial services and insurance reporter for S&P Global Market Intelligence (formerly SNL Financial), and ran the sports site “Began.” He’s written for The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Adam will join us for a chat about all things relating to healthcare. You can submit questions relating to the Affordable Care Act, private insurance, the future of health care, repeal and replace and more. If you’d like to participate but don’t have TPM Prime, sign up here.

Ask your immigration Qs to Tom Jawetz, VP of Immigration Policy @ American Progress, today at 1 p.m.

Tom Jawetz is the Vice President of Immigration Policy at American Progress. He previously served as chief counsel on the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee and has advised members of Congress and congressional staff on all areas of immigration law and policy. Tom will join us in The Hive on Wednesday 2/1 at 1 p.m. EST for a discussion about immigration. Feel free to submit questions about immigration policy, legal issues, civil rights for immigrants and more. If you’d like to participate but don’t have a Prime membership, sign up here.

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