Beyond The Headlines: Conversations Across The Divide With Nigel M. Lakey

Hot Topic Bold Talk · Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 4m

What might happen if Americans with different political perspectives stopped arguing from the headlines and started talking with one another about the principles underneath them?

That is the purpose of Beyond the Headlines: Conversations Across the Divide, an ongoing series within Hot Topic, Bold Talk featuring Jackalyn Rainosek, PhD, a Democrat, and Nigel M. Lakey, P.Eng, SPEC, who approaches these conversations from a Reagan Republican perspective.

Jackalyn and Nigel do not begin these conversations expecting to agree. They are not attempting to convert one another politically. Instead…